Atheists- Ignorance or Disrespect-What causes some Christians to insist on spelling it athiests ?

Question

And if they are right about God, does that mean we have actually been misspelling it the whole time?

Answer 1

Both


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"If I do not want what you want, please try not to tell me that my want is wrong.

Or if I believe other than you, at least pause before you correct my view.

Or if my emotion is less than yours, or more, given the same circumstances, try not to ask me to feel more strongly or weakly.

Or yet if I act, or fail to act, in the manner of your design for action, let me be.

I do not, for the moment at least, ask you to understand me. That will come only when you are willing to give up changing me into a copy of you.

I may be your spouse, your parent, your offspring, your friend, or your colleague. If you will allow me any of my own wants, or emotions, or beliefs, or actions, then you open yourself, so that some day these ways of mine might not seem so wrong, and might finally appear to you as right -- for me. To put up with me is the first step to understanding me. Not that you embrace my ways as right for you, but that you are no longer irritated or disappointed with me for my seeming waywardness. And in understanding me you might come to prize my differences from you, and, far from seeking to change me, preserve and even nurture those differences." Source(s) If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.

Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away. —Henry David Thoreau

Answer 2

Many Christians don't have a classical Greek education, and may not know that "atheist" is simply the opposite of "theist," so they spell the word phonetically. You may call this ignorance if you like, but nobody can be expected to know all the vagaries of the English language.

Answer 3

I've seen a lot of atheists misspell it too. The vast majority of the time, I think it's just poor spelling.

Answer 4

Sorry, but I need to address one of the answers here. The x in christian is an ancient symbol for ......guess what? Christian, yeah. You started it and want to rant on others for using it? If you would read other books instead of just the bible, you might know your own religions history. The fish you use to identify yourselves with is nothing more than a symbol for the age of Pisces. The early christians knew that.

Answer 5

Ignorance. The same kind of ignorance that breeds a belief in religion. The kind that cannot be changed by factual evidence.

Thus why they continue to misspell it, no matter how often we correct them. And thus why they believe in god, no matter how often they are shown to be quite stupid for doing so.

Answer 6

I before E except after C.

That's all I remember from K-12 English classes.

Answer 7

I think it is a matter of ignorance, if not in the non/religious realm then in the language realm. Very few people have any concept of proper english skills.

Answer 8

The 11th Commandment: Thou shalt not use spell check

Answer 9

4 million domestic canines die in step with annum using fact there are not adequate residences for them. upload that to those that die in dogfights, people who starve to loss of life on the streets, people who die of ailment, people who get shot, people who get poisoned, people who get hit by utilising autos, and people who get eaten in jap international locations. If somebody misspells atheist that many situations, then it may be precise that a domestic dog does die every time.

Answer 10

maybe because they just don't know how to spell it?

the general rule is "i before e except after c"

since there's no 'c' in atheist, maybe they think it's "i before e"

who knows? most who spell it wrong will correct themselves if you tell them nicely the proper way to spell it.