When an unbeliever or a Christian asks a question about the Bible, Jesus or God.. Unbelievers will give a "thumbs down" on answers given by Christians. This enables the answer to be hidden from people seeking the truth.
If you are an unbeliever and you are asking questions about the bible and the best answer is given. Why do you give a thumbs down? Are you searching for somethign you're afraid to find?
Atheism has been defeated by "Devoted to Christ"
"In order for atheism to have any logic. We must be Omniscient"
2007-09-01 01:42:21 · 29 answers · asked by Bad Boy 300 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Ummm, where do you get the idea that one person clicking on an answer and hiding it from themselves hides it from everyone else?
I look at a question and then read the answers and sometimes see several answers with negative ratings, yet those replies is still there for me to read unless I also give it a thumbs down.
See? This is what happens when you get obsessed with God to the point where you think everyone who doesn't believe exactly what you believe is out to get you.
I am an athiest and I admit it openly. I am proud to be an athiest. I am proud that I'm intelligent enough not to believe in this rubbish. I'm proud that I don't let the bigotted ramblings of of some lunatics a few thousand years ago rule my life. I'm proud that I believe in equal rights for women and lesbian and gay people. I'm proud that I abhor rape, child pornography, slavery in all it's forms, racism, murder war and the death penalty. All things that the bible seems to enjoy so much. Oh, and guess what else I believe in? Religious freedom. Even though I don't believe in God, I do believe in your right to believe and will stand up to protect that right, even though you choose to state - amongst the rest of your ingnorant ramblings - that I'm on Satan's payroll.
Do I give thumbs down to answers? Yes - really dumb ones: answers that are so obviously incorrect or made without any understanding of a situation. Sometimes a Christian will give a reply that I don't agree with, but they are expressing an opinion based on knowledge of the bible. I would never consider giving such an answer a thumbs down. Sometimes a Christian makes a very good point about something and it falls well within the requirements of the answer the questioner is looking for. Even though I might not agree (me being such a vile tool of Satan and all) I will actually give such an answer a thumbs up.
My advice to you is to put down your bible for a little while and go and take a look at what's going on outside in the sunshine. Maybe get a girlfriend (if you're not SO weird that none of ther local girls will go within 2000 yards of you), or failing that get a second hobby - like stamp collecting. But if the stamps start telling you that Emails are the spawn of Satan, don't listen to them - they're just bits of paper with gum on the back. Honestly.
2007-09-01 02:25:01 · answer #1 · answered by River J 6 · 4⤊ 0⤋
the thumbs up and thumbs down are not solely given by the person asking the question. Anyone on yahoo answers can give their opinion. When a person is reading the answers and they don't agree with a persons input, they can click on the thumbs down, the answer is hidden from the that person only, not everyone else. So all the answers are still visible to whoever is reading the question. If they agree with the answer they can give the thumbs up if they want. So don't worry, Everyone will see all perspectives...
2007-09-01 01:52:45 · answer #2 · answered by HotNurse71 4 · 3⤊ 1⤋
For the record, Devoted to Christ, you are not paranoid, silly, ranting, burning witches, a "tard," paying for thinking lessons, a bigoted zealot, obsessed, or sick. That your critics have no better responses than these suggests that you are continuing to strike an exposed nerve in the atheists' psyche.
But for the record, as a couple of people pointed out, clicking "thumbs down" only deletes the response from your screen. It is still there for everyone else to see.
Readers of R&S should not click ""thumbs up" and "thumbs down" capriciously, e.g., just to register a vote for or against a pre-existing viewpoint. "Thumbs up" should mean a cogent argument supported by evidence, whether or not we agree with the conclusion. "Thumbs down" should be reserved for those who substitute derision for reason.
2007-09-01 05:13:32 · answer #3 · answered by Bruce 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Atheism has been defeated because most people in the world are scared of the idea of going to hell for eternity, love the idea of a possible eternity in heaven, need a parent-like figure to turn to in times of need, need a comforting peace of mind, etc. Christians, and other believers for that matter, are believers because it works for them and it sounds like a sweet deal. It also wouldn't have anything to do with the fact that in most of the western world for thousands of years one could be killed for blasphemy. Or it wouldn't have anything to do with the fact that there were political and military conquests set out just to make Christianity the main religion of the world. No...it wouldn't have anything to do with that.
2007-09-01 01:51:05 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
Gentle Goddess!! I hope Kama will run over your Dogma.
I've had nights when I've had bigoted Zealots give me thumbs down for making comments like how wrong it is to blacken a whole group because of the actions of a few. Sometimes with in a minute of me posting.
How Moderates can not control Fundamentalists but suffer for their Bigotry
& (obviously) I'm neither an Atheist or a Xian.
[PS: thanks for the "Thumbs down" which proved my point]
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2007-09-01 02:22:21 · answer #5 · answered by Rai A 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
What about the times when Christians use the Thumbs-down button on non-Christians? Or worse Use The Report Abuse Button?
2007-09-01 01:49:48 · answer #6 · answered by The Return Of Sexy Thor 5 · 6⤊ 0⤋
I do not give thumbs down to answers merely because I disagree with them. I give the thumb to them only when they seem truly inaccurate in matters of fact, or when they are so irrational or rude as to want to have them out of my face.
What is this thing about "what are you afraid of" as a rhetorical device? Why assume fear, rather than disgust, is the reason?
2007-09-01 01:51:14 · answer #7 · answered by auntb93 7 · 3⤊ 1⤋
You are wrong. Since there is no god, there is no satan. And that is why many unbelievers give thumbs down to dumb answers, or answers based on the bible, which is nothing more than edited history and stupid fairy tales.
2007-09-01 01:49:51 · answer #8 · answered by Lionheart ® 7 · 5⤊ 2⤋
I am devoted to Jesus but often the answers given by Christians are the furthest from the truth.
Love and blessings Don
2007-09-01 01:45:46 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 10⤊ 1⤋
You wrote: "In order for atheism to have any logic. We must be Omniscient"
If you had to pay whoever taught you how to 'think', you would be entirely justified in demanding a complete refund.
Atheists DO NOT believe that gods DO exist. That defines 'atheist'.
You go around telling outlandish stories about invisible, magical, all-powerful entities and how these entities orchestrate and cause supernatural events. We simply do not believe your stories. Religionists say that makes us 'atheists'. I say that just makes us 'sane'.
You would have us join you in believing that a cosmic Jewish zombie, who is his own father, can make you live forever if you symbolically eat his flesh and telepathically tell him that you accept him as your master so he can remove an evil force from your soul that is present in humanity because a rib-woman was convinced, by a talking snake with legs, to eat from a magical tree... (etc.)... and that there is something horribly wrong with people who ARE NOT so gullible and droolingly stupid as to believe such outrageously ridiculous codswallop.
Such a transition in thinking would require that we abandon reason... and reformulate our world-view based upon gullibility, irrationality, willful ignorance, self-delusion, intellectual dishonesty, drooling stupidity and hypocrisy.
Sorry... sane people won't do that. Be happy in your delusions. Leave sane people alone.
"When one person suffers from a delusion, it is called insanity. When many people suffer from a delusion it is called Religion." ~ Robert M. Pirsig
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2007-09-01 01:58:25 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 2⤋