theist, why don't you understand that we atheist don't hate you or your respective gods?

Question

we don't even believe in them. what we hate are some of the things that are done and said in the name of your gods that cause harm to others. is that so hard for you to understand

Answer 1

The world needs much more understanding! No one should be attacked or forced to believe what they do not! Let's Live Life to It's fullest, together. What choice do we have?

Answer 2

So, neither poitics nor science have ever done harm to anyone? No one was ever hurt in the name of politics or science? I guess the E.O. Clinton signed in 1994 authorizing government scientists to release dangerous viruses over small-populated areas without the people even knowing it (in fact, the government isn't even required to inform the target population of such "experiments") to observe the long term effects- all done in the name of your beloved science- isn't harming anyone, or already harmed, anyone????? Yup. Crop dusting mountainsides where people live makes perfect, acceptable, logical, sense.

Gee, I can't figure out why most people hold science in general suspect. Care to explain the DOD's experiments in 1972 with the "Bovine Bizna" virus which went on to become the plague of the 20th century---AIDS??????????
Your questions are filled with nothing but hypocritical, assumption-laden bilge against anyone who believes in God, and then you have the audacity to act like you've been harmed. Are you serious??????

Answer 3

Feel hated? No! Think that atheists hate us? Not the theists I know, and definitely not me.

Yes, We too, hate things done in the name of gods, and even in the name of our God.

God tells us to love one another, not blow each other up with a bomb.

Mate, some good advice. Know that God exists now or, when it is too late, you will bow your knee and confess that Jesus Christ is LORD..

It will happen.

Answer 4

Hate and intolerance are part of humanity. To blame any religion for that is ludicrous. People have been killed in the name of religion, sure, but they have also been killed in the name of love, country, money....

There are countless excuses for why people kill or harm others. Because some claim religious reasons, does that mean religion is the cause? Certainly not. What excuse do we assign for non-religious people who kill or harm others?

In other words, guns don't kill people, people do.

Answer 5

number one if you don't hate God, then why do most you constantly campaign against OUR faith? You don't believe in Pagan gods or Hindu gods or Wicca gods, and you don't run a huge campaign to get them to come to your side.

and you can say all you want that its because they don't try to convert you or legislate their beliefs into law. and you might say that its a matter of religious freedom. well guess what? Christians have religious freedom too. part of our beliefs is to spread the gospel and the good news. so basically you just want your way, and you want your religious freedoms and you could care less about ours. yes, our religion involves witnessing. yes, our religion involves trying to move the country in a more christian direction.

i may not agree with your decision not to believe in God, but i would definitely defend your right to this belief. would you do the same for me? would any of you do the same for me?

Answer 6

Greetings Friend,

Thank you for your comments. I am what you would call a theist and I agree with you and on behalf of all theist I ask for your forgiveness. I wish we could give you something to believe in. With all of the foolishness we do in the name of God, I wonder why anyone would believe in a god but I do.

sending love,

Answer 7

It's hard to believe that when so many answers in this forum are dripping with sarcasm and hate.

Of course, the same goes for too many of my fellow Christians. I suppose I can say, at least you're not called to be any different.

Is that so hard to understand?

Answer 8

I can understand you hating what is said and done in the "name of our God"...I hate what is said and done in His Name as well and you know what else...so does He. What you fail to recognise is this...go back 2000 years...yeah, ancient Rome...when their were only 2 classes of people, Jews and gentiles. The gentiles were pagans and the Jewish religion had split and become so embroiled with either too much law or too much secretive paganism (Jewish Mystisism) that nobuddy on the planet was doing anybuddy very much good. Yeah, you had sick people, lame, blind, deseased, criminals hung on crosses, imprisonment, prostitution was rampant, child sex trafficing, enslavement (not the endentured kind), mentally ill and possessed, beggars, the poor, fatherless and widowed who were all outcasts even in Jewish society because they believed that wealth was a sign of rightiousness. Enter the Messiah. Pan forward to the year 2006 and see that while all these horrid human conditions still exist...where there is relief...there is some faith based organization or human rights agency that fights to see to people who suffer. Because of Jesus you have many, many, many men and women who have devoted their lives to the service of others. To the child who is raised in a violent neglected home with no hope for a future, here is Jesus who says to her...you can overcome, you can achieve and you can choose a life different for yourself and you can be useful to others. Do you think I got that message from other people? There is plenty of good done in the name of God...plenty of children rescued, people comforted and you know what gives them the most comfort and the most hope is the Word of God and then secondarily the person who follows it. Jesus Christ has done more in His 33 years on the face of this planet 2000 years ago than any other human being...if people take that message and use it in vain for gain or power or corrupt purposes...what difference is it when a communist dictator who has no faith tramples on human rights and ignores the needs of the people he exploits in order to carry on his legacy of power? Why don't you hate that guy and ridicule him? Because he is acting in his own name behind a party of lies and corruption? Protest that why don't you? Because in your heart of hearts, being an atheist you have to support systems of anti-theism. Yet...you can see just how powerful faith can be and how it gives people courage and strength they didn't know they had to fight for themselves and their loved ones. That is why communist China and North Korea destory religious freedom. They know it would be only a matter of decades before they were out of power and freedom would reign as it has globally in every other empire, era and time..even back in the dark ages...when the Roman Catholic Church thought they had Christianity all buttoned up...here came the reformationists to give it back to the people. At any rate..it won't matter. Religion of any kind, except for the most passive, paganistic practice, is on its way out...so you will get your wish. When the world wars have their way....Christians, Jews, Muslims and any other "scripturally" based sect of belief will be annihilated...then you will see how happy you will all be living in a secular society that can choose who to care about and how much.

For now though...My God tells me...

James 1:27
Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world.


Love in Christ, ~J~

Answer 9

nope it is sure not. I understand that you can't hate something that you don't exist. But some do hate the fact that we try to convert, if you want to say it that way. So some are considerable and some aren't, you are obviously one that is nicer.

Answer 10

Nope