More atheists than Christians?

Question

Here on Yahoo. Do you think Christians just get fed up with some of these people. I'm beginning to feel I am wasting my time too.


(Hey guys, if you can help it, please no name calling)

Answer 1

I do not think so. It may seem that way because the Christians do not answer the questions and stick defend the faith like we should.......Look at all the evil inflicted upon society by a few homosexuals, atheists, and now muslims!
If as many Christians really read and studied the Bible as the militant homosexuals and atheists spread their perversions, they would not stand a chance.
And most of the people that I have talked to that say the Bible is wrong or false, it usually turns out that they have not actually read the Bible, they are just recycling what someone else said........

Answer 2

I don't know what the percentages might be. It's clear there are also people pretending to be both which muddies the waters.

I'm an atheist (by the definition of the word) and yet fairly certain I'll be leaving here soon simply out of disappointment and boredom. Religion is a dead-end subject in an open forum. It can only be discussed as a purely academic subject or else it degrades.

I had hopes of discussing the original documents that went into making what people now call the bible or perhaps the social and political environment it they were written in.

But I have yet to find anyone here beyond the people I know in real life who have even read the bible much less documents contemporary to it. Yes that includes most christians. And I have found only a small number of atheists who even know what the word means. Many I see act as though an atheist is a drunken fan of some sports team called The Atheists.

I have called a few people here insulting names and am not at all ashamed of it. But everyone I have done this to has claimed to also be an atheist.

As someone without theism I am much harder on and demand much more from those who claim to be an atheists than theists.

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As an example of atheists here that disappoint me a recent question was "State your faith, Christian, Buddhist ,etc, and then your favorite book for your faith. Atheist also?"

I was stunned how many people said they were atheist then gave some book they thought represented their 'faith'. I'm torn between calling them idiots and just shaking my head and moving on.

Answer 3

I don't know.

Maybe more Christians than atheists?

Do you think atheists just get fed up with some of these people. I'm beginning to feel I am wasting my time too.

Flip sides of the same coin.

And that's not "The Truth"™, that's just a truth.

Answer 4

I don't really know, and don't really care. I don't come on here because other Christians are on here, I'm here to just answer any questions with a Christian perspective from Christians and atheists alike. I'm not fed up with anyone, in fact, I enjoy coming on here. Some of the things I see on here a hurting, but we live in a world that's filled with hurt and I just want to be one of the people that is pushing love back to the forefront.

Answer 5

There is maybe just one good question for each 10 to 20. senseless ones..but those are great. I am learning a lot about people and their beliefs here, so I don't find it a waste of time.
Today I learned that not all Atheists hold the same belief. That they vary as much as any other group..Some believe in magic and controlling forces, others believe only in science. I was amazed. My own narrow views assumed they all thought their was no paranormal things in the universe.
I have learned more about people that worship the Norse pantheon.
I wish more people would just state their beliefs, I would love to know more about them, personally.

Answer 6

I'll preface my comment by saying that I am a Christian. I don't know if there are more of one than the other. It may seem that way because our beliefs are often viciously attacked and it's easy to focus on those attacks... I have also seen that some Christians viciously attack others that don't share our beliefs. I imagine it's easy for those folks to also focus more on those attacks as well. We should be sharing our belief in LOVE!

Imagine the scene in heaven standing before our God in Christ. A person walks up to you and says; "Thanks for telling me that I was going to burn in hell, that you thought that everything I did was worthless, that I was worthless. It made me feel warm inside and right after your parting comment to me that I would be screaming in pain for eternity, I went right out and accepted Christ." .....Yet that's what some of our so-called Christian brothers and sisters do here on Yahoo. If it was me I'd hang my head in shame, and rightfully so.

Anyone who really wants to seek answers, who is open to listen, I will respect, Christian, atheist, agnostic, whatever. There's nothing wrong with asking for more knowledge and seeking it yourself. If I hadn't searched and read and questioned I would not be a Christian today.

Answer 7

We all can get fed up with this forum when we spend and inordinate amount of time using it.

This forum is best when it used sparingly. I've learned a lot here. I have a small network of people from all faiths including Christians, Pagans and Atheists.

This is a bloodless way to express our beliefs. I get bent out of shape a lot and have to take a respite from the boards, but I come back positive and ready to inspire and be inspired.

Pantheist

Answer 8

Some will get fed up yes. I think that more will begin to think for themselves which causes them to have doubts about their faith and they will leave because they need to either face those doubts or find a way to suppress them.

I try to free people from religious dogma and this is a cause which is never ending and constant. Because I feel my cause is just, I stick to it faithfully and do not give up. I am more certain of this cause than I ever was when I was a christian trying to 'bring people to the lord'.

Answer 9

Just because most people are losing their faith, does not mean that Christians should lose theirs. It is the people with faith that makes the positive changes in this world.

You are not wasting your time expressing what you believe in. You have that right. And I encourage to spread this love to others. It will make a difference.

Answer 10

Yet if we love others as commanded to us by God and Lord Jesus, Mat 22:37 Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind.
Mat 22:38 This is the first and great commandment.
Mat 22:39 And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.
Mat 22:40 On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.

Then we must not think of wasting our time but be persistent to share, witness and testify for Christ Jesus, the only way to have eternal life, John 14:6.
Gal 5:22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith,
Gal 5:23 Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law.
Gal 5:24 And they that are Christ's have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts.
Gal 5:25 If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit.
Gal 5:26 Let us not be desirous of vain glory, provoking one another, envying one another.
Therefore, we have to bear the fruit of the spirit and be always ready to love others by showing our Longsuffering, Php 3:10 That I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, being made conformable unto his death;
Php 3:11 If by any means I might attain unto the resurrection of the dead.
Php 3:12 Not as though I had already attained, either were already perfect: but I follow after, if that I may apprehend that for which also I am apprehended of Christ Jesus.
Php 3:13 Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before,
Php 3:14 I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.
Php 3:15 Let us therefore, as many as be perfect, be thus minded: and if in any thing ye be otherwise minded, God shall reveal even this unto you.
Col 4:5 Walk in wisdom toward them that are without, redeeming the time.
Col 4:6 Let your speech be always with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer every man.
Eph 5:14 Wherefore he saith, Awake thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give thee light.
Eph 5:15 See then that ye walk circumspectly, not as fools, but as wise,
Eph 5:16 Redeeming the time, because the days are evil.
Eph 5:17 Wherefore be ye not unwise, but understanding what the will of the Lord is.

Yes, let's continue to be like Lord Jesus Christ in all things; Matthew 11:28-30, and be part of the Great Commission, Matthew 28:18-20. AMEN.