Why are atheists so obsessed with God?

Question

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Or is it that an infinitely loving being that could somehow morally justify torturing even one of its beloved creations for all of eternity is without any exception paradoxical in the extreme, and they are amazed that anybody could possibly delude themselves to the point that they could believe that they LOVE this evil being?
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Or is it just that Christians as well as other punishment/reward religions have an extremely adverse impact on the progress of humanity toward a peaceful, unified society collectively interested in good for the sake of good, love the sake of love and not following altruisms in fear of a clearly unloving god, an eternal depth of torment or death?

What do you think?

Answer 1

i am going with number one-i just cannot figure how that many could delude themselves----just my thoughts--smile and enjoy the day
i think most are missing what you are saying---excellant question

Answer 2

I think:

A. you have been listening to too many fundies that have no clue what hell is really about.

B. I think you extremely exagerate the wrongs members of the Christian faith have done. There is no denying that members fo the Christian faith have committed grave sins in the past, but to say that Christianity has had an adverse affect on society is ludicrous. The good things Christians have done far outweigh any wrong. Anti-Christians, however, ignore those things, and focus on only the negative.

C. I don't think you, and most people who have posted so far, understand, or ever understood, what Christianity is really about (especially the girl above me).

Answer 3

First of all, I don't have an empty void or longing to fill. I am more stable and complete than I have ever been. When I believed is when I felt scared. I no longer have to worry what my actions might bring in the later life, because I now have a strong feeling that there isn't one.

We don't obsess. We defend. I'm sick of Christian laws governing the country. I'm sick of using bible passages to pass laws and morals. I'm sick of religion trying to control so much. I fight what fights me and my rights.

Answer 4

I'm not. Why do people keep making these statements as if they know every atheist in the world or something. Except for here on R&S, the subject hardly ever comes up in my daily life.

Answer 5

Athiesm are not obsessed with God. Some atheists however may be obsessed with God Believers in the same sense some Jews in Nazi Germany were obsessed with Nazis.

Answer 6

sorry i couldn't read it all.
but to answer the 1st question, i think that atheists don't see what the big deal is, why we (Christians) always have to talk about "this God" and "his evidence" and blah blah blah.

no, i'm not an athiest so i shouldn't be speaking about what they don't agree with....
but this is what most people look down on; at Christians.
:0)

Answer 7

I think you are making it more complicated than it is. The power of God's name causes them fear and feelings of condemnation for their unbelief. They work very hard to justify their unbelief, in the name of logic and scientific proof. But, it just doesn't hold up. So, they attack anyone and anything which is regarded as a threat to their tenuous position.

Answer 8

It's a bit of both. It's much easier to criticize religion on logical and scientific grounds, rather than to open up one's emotional side.

Many atheists were raised as believers, including Richard Dawkins who used to have fantasies about seeing angels. But such emotional baggage is too painful to expose and too hard to defend, so it's generally kept well hidden.

Answer 9

Probably because people keep bringing the subject up.

Answer 10

Quite the atheist preacher. That is what I think.

You are a religious zealot, just another Brain washed
atheist on the monkey ring.