I was agnostic until I had a miraculous experience. Those who believe in a Creator (including myself) obviously believe because we had a close, personal encounter with The Divine.
When an atheist tells me they never had that experience, I take their word for it and I believe them 100%. It's not my business to force them to have that experience or denounce them because it never happened to them.
Only God can reveal God exists right?
So why does it upset some believers so much when an atheist says, "I honestly have never had ANY experience like that and therefore I cannot believe."?
Why is there this need to demonize them and assign ulterior motives to their non belief? Does their non-belief invalidate or trivialize your belief? If so how exactly?
Or is it that you feel SO convinced that your religion or scripture automatically reveals God that if someone does not find God there like you did, something MUST be wrong with them?
2007-09-12 07:41:36 · 4 answers · asked by pixie_pagan 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Sorry about the "Atheists" typo. Believe it or not I DO know how to spell it properly. The i came before the e by accident, I SWEAR! LOL
2007-09-12 07:51:44 · update #1
Ramen to you!!!
They want us to think we're stubborn so we feel bad about our beliefs. And what's sad is that they think we'll listen to them just because they say so. I'm sorry, but just because christian people live on blind faith just because someone tells them to doesn't mean the rest of us can't think.
2007-09-12 07:52:12 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't know about them being just stubborn, but if I somehow trigger an inter-galactic brawl with a bunch of thugs from Altair-4, I would certainly not refuse the atheists offering a hand in kicking some alien asses.
2007-09-12 07:49:32 · answer #2 · answered by RIFF 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
This all seems vaguely familiar, somehow....
And if you're going to go to post the same question twice, why wouldn't you at least spell "atheists" right the second time around?
2007-09-12 07:48:08 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
You are awesome!
2007-09-12 07:47:01 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋