i have no doubt that if any atheist saw or went though half the things i have they would be calling people who believe blind.
2007-09-23 21:25:59 · 20 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
what i'm talking about is things have happened in my life to reinforce what was said in the bible. for instance the bible says 'the love of money is the root of evil.' i seen people killed for 15-20 dollars so that rings true in my life.
2007-09-23 21:37:59 · update #1
i have what i have because of the grace of God
2007-09-23 21:43:36 · update #2
Faith is the substance of things hoped for and the evidence of the unseen
2007-09-23 21:47:41 · update #3
FAITH is something that atheist people will never have or understand it.
So i just leave them alone.
2007-09-23 21:32:50 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 7⤋
I am not an atheist.
Faith is the most important thing. Christianity preaches fear to God. So at any point of time and any action, they advised to do it with a fear to god. So God fearing people will not do evil things.
They taught to believe the God. Anywhere faith is the important thing. Eventhough it is blind, they rely on GOD. If the faith is not blind, it shows that there is a doubt about GOD. So its better to have blind faith on GOD, not on anything else.
But having a blind faith that Christianity is the only way to reach the god is unacceptable.
2007-09-24 04:42:38 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
It's the acme of foolishness to assume that you have been through trials and tribulations that an athiest has not. Your faith got you through your troubles...good for you. Now, imagine how much harder someone without faith had to work in order to fight through thier troubles. Really...imagine it. Athiests don't believe in a God...suicide becomes a very real option. Athiests are disparaged by ALL religions. We are universally misunderstood and disliked by every culture, seen as dangerous heretics. The funny thing is...we don't really want anything from anybody. The church takes money. We don't. The church asks for your time. We don't. The church asks for your loyalty. We don't.
Leave us alone, already. Go worship your god in peace.
2007-09-24 04:38:41 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Becuase Christians DO have blind faith. You have no proof of god (coincidences don't count as proof). You have no evidence, nothing to support you, nada.
Just your blind faith.
Don't pull that "you don't know what I've been through!" crap. I know atheists who have probably had it a lot tougher than you - you're not so bad off that you can't afford a computer and an internet connection.
2007-09-24 04:37:54 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Then why haven't I seen or gone through half the things you have? I spent a lot of my life praying for god to reveal himself to me, and to help me believe. If he wanted me to maintain my faith, and I prayed with an earnest and repentant heart (and I did -- I felt like crap for doubting god's existence), why didn't he show up?
I know now that he didn't show up because he simply doesn't exist. Not because he's mean or lazy, he's just not there. The point I bring to you is that personal experience is subjective. I can argue you with you that my personal experience should prove god isn't real. You can argue that yours should prove that he is.
But in my opinion, if god WAS real, we'd start seeing a lot more consistencies when it does come to personal experience.
If you TRULY believe money is the root of all evil, why do you own a computer? Why do you pay for internet service? Why don't you sell all your possessions and follow Jesus, the way you're commanded to in the bible?
2007-09-24 04:32:36 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 2⤋
It's the Christians that put forward that view because of the total lack of evidence for the existence of any gods.
You have no other choice.
Atheist don't care what you call it because you are still delusional and flying in the face of the evidence.
2007-09-24 04:39:19 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
It can only be blind faith, if you had proof or reasons to believe that God existed then it would no longer be faith.
Faith:~ Belief that does not rest on logical proof or material evidence.
2007-09-24 04:34:14 · answer #7 · answered by Skaggy says: 5 · 5⤊ 0⤋
Faith is believing without seeing.
Therefore all faith could be seen as "blind".
2007-09-24 04:40:46 · answer #8 · answered by Jalalcohol 2 · 3⤊ 0⤋
I have more than likely went through more than half of what you have and let me tell you, I do think that those people are blind.
2007-09-24 04:35:36 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Because they do. Obviously.
And you just admitted it yourself, so point made in full.
To add a shred more detail to it.... "faith" is self-reliant and does not depend upon evidence nor reason in any way, shape or form... Given that our eyes are our primary sense for gathering evidence of the world around us, "blindness" is often used as a metaphor for being "evidencially lacking"... which by definition "faith" is.
2007-09-24 04:28:59 · answer #10 · answered by Lucid Interrogator 5 · 8⤊ 2⤋
Because of the bible and all of the holes in it Christians can only say if you have faith it makes sense.
2007-09-24 04:29:03 · answer #11 · answered by ben t 3 · 7⤊ 1⤋