Why are atheists so adamant about stealing hope.?

Question

I understand your problem with those that force religion on you. But if you feel so secure in your faith that there is not "God," why do you need to blast those who have hope?

atheists preach just as much and as ardently as christians

Answer 1

I doubt that a single atheist ever came here to "steal hope".

If your hope is that fragile, you go fix your problem yourself. This PC nonsense has gone way too far.

"atheists preach just as much and as ardently as christians"

But atheists are right, and Christians are wrong. Your radical relativism has also gotten out of hand - you've fallen into that trap of thinking that if there are two sides to an argument, both must be equally valid. That's not so - truth matters, no matter how much your religion insists that it doesn't.

Answer 2

I'm full of hope. For one, I don't preach 'armageddon' or partake of such a thing coming about.

I have hope for a wiser, more sustainable, less warring, less superstitious, less insecure, less egotistical generation. I have hope that we will eventually share many common ethical principles that will be less divisive than religion.

In short I have hope that we can achieve GOOD things. We have improved human rights and conditions for many people, every year there is some progress made. Compare a century ago. Slavery will come to an end. Religious/cultural abuse and demonizing of women and homosexuals will come to an end. After centuries of aggressive, genocidal racism, we have finally made greater leaps in race-relations in the last 40 years than in ALL the time before.

But mostly, I don't believe in a 'fate' or an 'armageddon, I believe in personal responsibility and the will to make changes, and have hope that others do also.

And if any of my hope has *anything* to do with religion, it's only that I don't believe in 'deities' and I don't subscribe to fatalism.

"atheists preach just as much and as ardently as christians"

And the last time you had atheists knocking on your door in the name of 'atheism' was when?

Answer 3

I do not agree with you about atheist being adamant about stealing your hope, infact they are so confident in themselves that they dont need support of God and Prophets to live their lives.

I know many atheist but i have never seen them making fun of others who believe in God or any relegion.

The atheist are the real hope and they can help us break the chain of dependency on superstitions and relegion.

After all the relegions are taking us for a ride.

Answer 4

"But if you feel so secure in your faith that there is not "God," why ... "
I don't have faith there's no 'god' - I've searched for evidence for most of my 60 years. 'God' has had countless opportunities to reveal himself - he hasn't.

Why do I blast?
Cos whilst ever you have your head in a non-existent afterlife you lose focus of the injustices that are happening here and now - you don't live in the here and now - you excuse the most horrific human conditions by saying silly things like: It's the will of god. God sends us these things to test us ... and on and on about head in the sand and clouds stuff.
WE are responsible - god didn't send Katrina to get even; god didn't send AIDS to destroy the gay community.

I want people to think and take responsibility and I would like more of your xians to walk the walk and follow your Jesus when he said: "Love one another".
AND he didn’t follow that up with conditions.
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Answer 5

I'm jewish.. that is my family is jewish (but i'm an athiest because i can't bring myself to believe in god).
To me i dont think athiests are stealing hope. I mean it's great that you can find hope and comfort in something like religion. I think we just dont like religion because of what it promotes. Racism, sexism, wars... to me i see god as a dictator who's trying to run you're life. Frankly i'm not very happy to know that there's someone up there trying to influence everything i do even if it hurts others to a considerable extent. So having faith and hope in your religion is good within yourself which is awesome but think of the big picture and what your religion and religion in general is doing to the world and others.

Answer 6

You've heard the expression, "Misery loves company?" Nobody wants to endure their hopelessness alone, hence the great commission to share the "bad news." :-)

As to the "here and now".... if atheists are so worried about the faithful ignoring the "here and now" then why is it always Christians and other religious who do the "adopt a child" sponsorships, and who teach or work as doctors with NGOs in the third world?

I'd say we're actually the ones putting the "here and now" where our mouth is, quite frankly.

Answer 7

I believe atheists have more "hope".

They hope man will stop wandering around spouting nonsense and killing his brother, all the while calling himself morally superior. They hope science will be able to cure man's ills. They hope people will realize that those who look skyward and mumble to themselves will not ultimately be those who change the world for the better.

Answer 8

A hope with a hopeless chance of materializing is worthless and it's one's duty to save his fellow beings from disappointments later.However,atheists don't out of the way to save the unwillings.

Answer 9

Most likely there is a creating force or entity out there, but it doesn't communicate with us. The Bible writers invented a Heathenized explanation known as the Bible. The mentality of the Bible writers is bloody gory to the core! Christianity today is not much different it is based on the same crap!

Answer 10

But your hope is false hope which is useless anyway (and no one needs faith to not believe in god, when there's no proof non-belief is the default position of every reasonable person).

Better to lose it early then to realise it was false later on when your whole world-view comes crashing down on you.