they're the ones claiming that there is an invisible man who lives in the sky, and is gonna send you to some magical all perfect paradise. Thats like me telling you that purple, talking dogs are having sex on planet pluto. And as soon as you tell me im lying an to prove it, im gonna say can you disaprove it. So back to my question, why do Christians ask us to disprove the existence of God if they're the ones claiming it, shouldnt they be RESPONSIBLE for providing us with evidence to support this? And if they ask us to dispove it, wouldnt that mean that they themselves cant prove what they believe?
2007-08-28 06:46:01 · 38 answers · asked by h20_theghost 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Hey buddy- when someone asks me to "disprove" anything they are claiming is true- they just resigned from the argument. There is no logic whatsoever in that, and any TARD could figure out that the burden of proof is on the person making the claim.
I won't credit ANYONE with a response to that other than sarcasm.
2007-08-28 06:52:45 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 2⤋
You make a good point. And no, we cannot prove His existence. We can prove the hstorical validity of The Bible. It is one the most reliable historical documents of our day. That does not prove God's existence though. Proof for God's existence is a personal experience where you know that a certain circumastance could have only come about supernaturally. And personal on a level that God speaks to your heart and your mind where again only you within yourself can truly know that it was God. So all I can say to you is, God allows us to choose Him or not. If you don't want to believe He is there, then he will allow you to do so and not reveal Himself to you. But if you keep an open mind leaving God room to do what he wants to do to communicate with you - he can prove Himself to you if you'll only ask Him to. But don't look the other way when you see Him just because you don't want your beliefs to be undermined.
2007-08-28 07:25:30 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
it's not magic. It's faith. You have to belive that it exists and look to him in order for to feel him. it's like the story of the barber.A man went to a barber shop to have his hair cut and his beard trimmed. As the barber began to work, they began to have a good conversation. They talked about so many things and various subjects. When they eventually touched on the subject of God, the barber said: “I don't believe that God exists.”
“Why do you say that?” asked the customer.
“Well, you just have to go out in the street to realize that God doesn't exist. Tell me, if God exists, would there be so many sick people? Would there be abandoned children? If God existed, there would be neither suffering nor pain. I can't imagine a loving God who would allow all of these things.”The customer thought for a moment, but didn't respond because he didn't want to start an argument. The barber finished his job and the customer left the shop.
Just after he left the barbershop, he saw a man in the street with long, stringy, dirty hair and an untrimmed beard. He looked dirty and unkempt. The customer turned back and entered the barber shop again and he said to the barber: “You know what? Barbers do not exist.”
“How can you say that?” asked the surprised barber. “I am here, and I am a barber. And I just worked on you!”
“No!” the customer exclaimed. “Barbers don't exist because if they did, there would be no people with dirty long hair and untrimmed beards, like that man outside.”
“Ah, but barbers DO exist! What happens, is people do not come to me.”
“Exactly!”- affirmed the customer.“That's the point! God, too, DOES exist! What happens, is, people don't go to Him and do not look for Him. That's why there's so much pain and suffering in the world.”
Gerald Garrison
2007-08-28 07:44:06 · answer #3 · answered by That Person 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I believe they do this because they have been conditioned by the bible of course to be very defensive of their religion. I am not an atheist, I believe in a higher power but I don't believe in forcing your beliefs on someone else. I am not christian. I grew up and noticed that christianity is very cult like. But if it is mentioned someone is buddhist or atheist their eyes bulge and they nearly have heart attacks. They are in a make believe world. Tell them disapproving god is irrelevent, when you can't harbor any evidence it exists in the first place. And atheists arent the only ones picked on, its other religions. The want you to tell them what is so grand about buddhism or hindu, when most christians don't know half of the history of their religion. Next time tell them to tell you the history of constantine.
2007-08-28 06:58:12 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
One thing I have not understood about many atheists is the anger they display towards people with faith. Kurt Vonnegut (an atheist) said that faith is the greatest gift in the world. Vonnegut went on to say he would never try to destroy someone else faith, he envied the comfort that faith gives people.
Some atheists act like atheism is their religion, and they are on a mission to convert as many believers as possible to the church of atheism.
Leave people's faith alone. If you are really an atheist then it should not matter to you whether or not someone else has faith.
2007-08-28 07:09:08 · answer #5 · answered by Duck Danger 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
well its all about faith. faith is having trust without knowing. and besides those are like christian fanatics i am a christian and i dont believe that mean an "invisible man" more like an omnipresent being like something you dont see but you can feel its there as for the purple dogs having sex on pluto. I think i saw a website that had something close to that lol just tell them to stop being ignorant
p.s. when neil armstrong first made his famous statement many christians were told that while they were going through the clouds they saw no heaven or god
Hope this is useful
2007-08-28 07:01:08 · answer #6 · answered by Ellie 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Atheists believe in "nothing."
Christians believe in "something."
When an Atheist asks a Christian to prove, "nothing," the "somethings," Christians believe in do not add up to nothing.
When a Christian asks an Atheist to prove "something," the "nothings," Atheists believe in do not add up to something.
It's an argument that cannot be resolved. It's either we all believe in the same things and understand, or we do not and let it be.
2007-08-28 07:17:09 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Belief in the absurd has somehow become the default position. It's such a natural thing to most people that when you disagree, you look like the radical. Everyone is assumed to be a believer until they state otherwise. Kind of dumb, isn't it?
2007-08-28 07:05:52 · answer #8 · answered by Boris Bumpley 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
They like to believe that the existence of god is the default whereas in fact the complete opposite is true.
You are correct in that the burden of proof is on the claimant,so far,they have not been able to provide that proof
2007-08-28 06:53:26 · answer #9 · answered by darwinsfriend AM 5 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Why do atheists care whether Christians can prove their beliefs?
2007-08-28 06:56:50 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋