Why do Christians say this?

Question

atheism is a religion & scientists require faith in science

Why do Christians try to drag us down into their personal Hell?

April: Others understood my question. I would question why YOU don't...

Answer 1

Because they feel comfortable enough lying to prove their own point or are uneducated enough to believe it.

Usually both.

Answer 2

Because on a very basic level science requires you to start with some very basic assumptions which require a degree a faith. The universe is organized and predictable, and rules that run it are like this everywhere in the universe; and our view and understanding of the universe is testable using the scientific method. I can't prove that a ball dropped on a planet at the other end of the universe doesn't fall up. On the other hand, all the evidence I've seen so far make me expect it will.

Christians use the word faith differently. They use it to mean quit questioning what I'm telling you, believe what I say and ignore what you know by observation, because it contradicts what I've learn from my book that has all the answers.

Answer 3

We call atheism a religion because it sure looks like it on here. However I am a scientist and for the most part science completely rules out faith. In the sense that experiments must be based upon data that is solid. However some things are in a sense taken by faith in the sense that they have not been proven and yet science believes it to be true. For instance abiogenesis. Although this has not been seen and a method is not known by which it could occur science takes by faith that it did occur. In this sense there is faith in science.

Answer 4

Because it's a fact. We're not dragging you into our personal hell - you are already in your own - gosh - we're trying to drag you into our personal heaven. Think about this for a minute. If you fly in an airplane you have to trust the laws of gravity that they are not going to change during your flight or else you're dead. You trust the people who fly it and the company who built it too. After I've studied both sides of the creation/evolution debate I've concluded it takes much more faith to believe in evolution. Everyone has a set of preconceived notions when they look at a piece of evidence. I would say one thing based on my worldview and you would say another based on yours. Which one really makes more sense? You're so funny - wish we could chat! You have to trust in something or someone. You trust in evolutionary thinking but that's not true science. Science has to be proved and tested and able to be duplicated for study. You cannot test evolution because no one has ever seen it happen and you cannot duplicate it for study. Therefore evolution is a theory and not fact. Just like Creationism is also a theory and not a fact. The bottom line is - no one was there to see the beginning of the world to be able to prove it. You just have to be willing to look at the evidence in several different ways before you decide for sure which one makes most sense.

Answer 5

I do say that Atheism is a religion from time to time.

Atheism has all the hallmarks of a religion, faith, philosophy and belief system. Adherents of Atheism reject all other belief systems, all other faiths and actively proselytize. Atheists look down on non-atheists and tell them they are lost, mock them and discriminate against them. Atheists are active in lawsuits promulgating the idea that theirs is the only legitimate state religion in the United States.

To me, that seems a bit hypocritical; please forgive me for pulling you down to the level of someone of faith.

As for the second part, I don't often say that scientists require faith in science. It does make sense though--science as we know it requires the ability to observe and build on ideas. As you distill all those ideas down to their lowest foundations, there are some that cannot be proven--these are called "theories" until they are proven. Scientists do need to have faith in science and theories to function effectively.

Answer 6

Uh, there are more scientists and doctors who are believer in God than who are atheists. It appears you are the one dragging people down.

...do you have a theory that explains why the universe is inherently orderly. If so what is the name of it?

Gee whiz, trying to get a monopoly on intelligence, while at the same time ignoring the blue-collar atheists, the average joe atheists among you. People who simply do not believe in God, but have never read a Dawkins book, or bothered to study to cast down the Bible, or ever stepped in a college. It is a shame that you are embarassed of your own type.

Answer 7

No one is trying to drag you down. Philosphically speaking, atheism is a belief system of sorts -- it requires as much or more faith to believe there is no god (since you can't logically prove a negative). Your belief system is your religion, with or without formal worship, since it is the root of your world view.

Atheism is existential: life has no meaning other than what we invest in it as individuals. It's faith is not so much in science as in the ability to the human mind to eventually be able to discover, comprehend and explain 'everything'.

Answer 8

They have a difficult time believing that some people can live a perfectly normal, moral life without religion. But it's not something all Christians say. In fact, it's something only the self righteous ones say. It's also not just Christians. Any self righteous *** is going to say this.. If you want to disprove this, just say "Yes, like I have faith in gravity.. Faith as in something that can't be proven.. Yep.. Faith in gravity.."

Answer 9

I have never said either of those things.

In fact, I have corrected others here who have said that atheism is a religion.

Why would anyone think that "scientists require faith in science"? That makes no sense to me.
Isn't Science purely factual? How does one need faith to believe what can be proven?

I would never try to "drag you down."
I am very happy and do not consider myself to be in Hell.

I'm sorry to be unable to answer your question.

Answer 10

Well, you don't hear about most atheists, but the ones you do hear from try to denounce religion with an almost religious fervour.

I don't remember talking about scientists' faith in their research or damning you to be eternally burned in the Lake of Fire.

Answer 11

I have heard rumblings about atheism being a religion unto itself which is preposterous. I have not heard that Faith in Science crap.
Christians, fearful that they might be wrong, will do anything to drag down non-believers so they wont feel so alone in their doubts.