Do You know the difference between a fool and an atheist.?

Question

" The difference between a fool, and an atheist is that a fool scoffs at things he doesn't know he doesn't understand, and an atheist scoffs at things he knows he doesn't understand"...Enis Involucrus

Sorry people but this quote makes perfect sence to me.

Sorry Deke I don't know how to cut, and paste I had to write it down, and enter it.

Answer 1

And all this time I thought they were one and the same.

Answer 2

I am not sure I can answer a question which already had your own answer, but I'll give it a try.

First, the fool you are refering to in your question must be someone that your perceive as not being in alignment with your extremely narrow interpertation of your faith.

In other words, anyone who does not stack up to your faith as you think they should, you consider a fool.

Now if they have a different religion that you and you don't stack up to, according to them, does that make you also a fool ? Not the way you see it.

Most religions as structered this way, they teach their followers (lemmings), that they are the only way to get some sort of prize after death and everyone elses religion will bring that person some demise after they make the trip to that undiscovered country from which borne, no travler returns.

So, in this sense, a fool is anyone who does not sit in the seat next to you on Sunday and I'll bet there are some of those folks who you call fools too.

Now the atheist is quite a different sort of person. They fly in the face of all established religions. Your bablings mean nothing to them because they are at peace with the fact that the hundreds of different gods we have coujured up through time, really don't exist. There is no salvation, no reincarnation, no return. Just what is today is today without the great creator.

They live life at where they are at any given moment. They oft wait for some of the super right religions to show them even one small mirical, and yet there is nothing. I guess you could consider them a religion by their own right.

Does that make them a fool? I think not.
Because they are different than someone else, will they burn in some fire that the christians conjured up in their good book? I think not.

My grandma always said " When you point , you have 3 fingers pointing at yourself."

Is it possible this could apply in this situation? I think so.

Answer 3

Great made up quotation there. I still think I prefer Nick Cave's character Eucrid Eucrow. That shows more originality than Enis Involucrus.

Answer 4

When one knows there is no need to understand. Understanding is required for one who does not know

Just a thought of the moment......

Answer 5

actually I am finding it difficult to know the difference, no offense to atheists but they cannot understand "divine" things, they want evidence that is limited to "earth" only(they are kinda shallow too), while there are PLENTY of evidence they choose to turn a blind eye instead

Answer 6

If you bothered to listen to what atheists have to say then you would realise that most are well versed in the Bible and it's negative influence that it's followers have on mankind. Oh we understand all too well. What a fool you are.

Answer 7

Do you know the difference between a judge and forgiveness?

Answer 8

Fools are the religionist who waste so much time caring about what atheists do.

Answer 9

That's sense, not sence.

An atheist does not believe in fairy tales while a fool accepts everything he hears as gospel

Answer 10

Im not convinced atheists dont fully understand the Gospel or having faith in God. They simply reject it.

Answer 11

A fool is someone who claims to understand something that doesn't really exist. An atheist simply accepts that it doesn't exist.