Why do Christians make such a big deal about atheists living without hope?

Question

For me, I lose hope when I see my fellow people hopelessly entwined and entangled in the deceit and delusion of religion. I lose hope when I see these same people willfully infect their vulnerable children with the same sickness from which they suffer. And I lose hope when I see the violence, hatred and bigotry perpetrated in the name of something which is falsely labeled ‘peaceful’. Why do they still insist that I could have my hope restored if I became one of them?

Answer 1

This is simply godder propaganda and as such, it's not actually meant to work on _you_. It's designed to keep the sheep in the flock, to remind them of what they (supposedly) stand to lose if they step out of line. It's one of those "everybody knows" things.

Have you ever heard Leonard Cohen's song "Everybody Knows" ? Part of it goes like this:

Everybody knows that the dice are loaded;
Everybody rolls with their fingers crossed.
Everybody knows that the war is over --
Everybody knows the good guys lost.
Everybody knows the fight was fixed.
The poor stay poor, the rich get rich.
That's how it goes,
And everybody knows.

Everybody knows that the boat is leaking --
Everybody knows that the captain lied.
Everybody's got this broken feeling,
Like their father or their dog just died.
Everybody's talking to their pockets.
Everybody wants a box of chocolates,
And a long stem rose.
Everybody knows.

Answer 2

Hi, Desiree!
You need not lose hope. We are fine.
There is no deceit or delusion in my relationship with God.
It is not a sickness. You only see it as such because you do not understand.

I see bigotry and hatred when others judge me and other Christians because of our love for the Lord.

Can you not allow others the courtesy of respecting their beliefs? I do the same for you and others.

You are the one making a big deal of all this.

Have a great afternoon.

Answer 3

They can't imagine themselves living without the type of hope they have found in their religion. Even thinking about it brings a type of despair to them (as they think the entire world would fall apart without at least one person Hoping for what they hope for). They don't realize just how contradictory that Hope is when they turn their religion on other people. When they go to the extreme, the most a Non-Believer can hope for is to become suddenly Deaf or the speaker to become Mute (they're already Blind and Deaf).

Answer 4

It's a sickness that only works if everybody shares that sickness.
THEY hate (their word) us cos we don't show FEAR of life or death.

They have been so completely brain "washed in the blood of the lamb" (when they say it they smile as if it's some sorta modern washing technique instead of the barbaric picture it really paints) that the way their psychotic 'god' acts, throughout the only book justifying their belief system, is the way they'd act towards their own children ... if they were completely sick.

I think I lost myself in there somewhere; too many thoughts happening simultaneously.
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Answer 5

Hello sweet Desiree.. :)

For me, I have hope because of my faith in the Lord.. :)

I have hope when I see a child praying for his friends and giving his toys to the Toys are for Tots Foundation..

I see so much Joy and Hope when I can sit with someone who is gay and share the Truth about being a Christian is someone who really ~Loves~ them and does not judge them.. :)

Oh sweet precious Desiree..the above is why and how your hope can be restored..if you will only open up your heart.. :)

And ~Love~ Everyone..even Christians.. :)


In Jesus Most Precious Name..
With ~Love~ In Christ.. :)

Answer 6

It appears that many Christians believe that they have the only correct path to follow. It is an amazingly hypocritical position to take. Even if those Christians are correct, and rejection of Christianity is a direct path to Hell, I would remind them of the scripture where Christ instructed his followers to knock on doors, offer their instruction, and turn, shake the dust off their feet, and walk away, IF they were rebuked. This story has two sides (Like all good stories...)- the disciples are given their assigned task, and God gives the individual they approach the right to reject the message.

Answer 7

We all think differently. We're entitled to that no matter how foolish and stupid it is. Some of us are predisposed to a life of delusion and deceit. And some of us figure it out. The only hope I have and need is that I and those that I love, living a long, heathly and happy life.

Answer 8

I understand what you say about organised religion being the cause of much fear and violence, but we must remember that most organised religions were instigated by truly enlightened, peaceloving individuals who wanted to expand other's self knowledge and wisdom. Unfortunately some people are attracted to religion to repress and opress themselves and others. such people make religion seem like a psycological 'sickness', but it is the individual that creates the sickness, not the belief itself. I don't have a religion, I'm an agnostic, but I understand your dilemma. Personally I consider that it is not prescence of religion, but lack of education which impedes children. If they are fully informed, they can make their own spiritual decisions, but uneducated persons, whether they have had religion stamped into them or not, are the really unemancipated ones

Answer 9

Crime is not all committed by Christians. Why don't we concentrate on other things we have in common?

That said, i appreciate Your point of view. It is seldom possible to glimpse what things are like on Your side of the line.

Answer 10

Well, All I can say is, as an atheist, we do have hope. Just not in a life after death.