ATHEISTS: Upon visiting the doctor's office for an ailment, do you prefer to be told the truth...?

Question

...About your condition or would conjectures suffice?

Similarly, when speaking to a believer in Jesus Christ, would you rather be told the truth or made up fables about the condition of man's souls?

Answer 1

I'd want the truth... I don't want to hear what the doctor feels is true, I want evidence to support the diagnosis.

Answer 2

I would want the doctor to tell me the facts -

I would then want a second opinion.

then, I would want to understand the ailment and treatment from my own perspective.

If the doctor said that I had an invisible ailment and there were other doctors (of different faiths) that gave second and third opinions that all were different and had different cures, I would not believe any of them.

I would find out on my own. My own research, my own observation, my own methods of evidence.

Your "cure" for my spiritual ailment is an old trick, used thousands of years before Jesus, Moses, etc...

It's the same old, tired formula:

Virgin Birth
God/Man/Savior
Miracles
A fundamental error in humanity
A cure that demands a formula
a formula designed to get everyone on the same page
A myth of martyrdom
(Fact: there were more witches burned at the stake than there were legitimate Christian martyrs.)

Your Christian sources manipulate this data - like everything else they purport.

Answer 3

Most of the time, don't you get conjectures from the doctor anyway? I mean, if it is just a normal checkup (as compared to a screening for surgery) the doctor has to make educated guesses about what may be bothering you (like when you have a cold or a fever, and all that stuff).

As for the truth from believers...ironically, the truth is to admit that everything that they are about to tell is conjecture...

Answer 4

Well, doctors, from time to time, would probably not want to tell you the truth because they might scare you too much, if you have like cancer or something, and even when they do tell you, they do so hoping that they will be able to cure you. Christians however would never hesitate to tell you how "sick" you are, so there's no question of wanting the truth or not. Moreover, when they tell you "the truth", they don't have a single piece of your "wellbeing" in mind, and with all their hearts they hope that you burn in hell. Moreover, you go to your doctor to get cured, but you never go to Christians for any reason whatsoever, so rather than comparing them to doctors, I would compare them to patients, who come to you to cure them, but curse you out of despair and hopelessness.

Answer 5

I prefer facts. One man I knew was told he had six months to live by several medical professionals and specialists. That was over ten years ago. He's still alive, and has a will and strength that I have never seen in anyone else.

Now, you can believe what you want. But believing in what he does seems to have helped him greatly.

Answer 6

I would prefer the truth. That jesus is a made up fable.

Answer 7

There is absolutely no comparison to medical fact and religious subjecture. When you can perhaps get some actual fact that your brand of religious belief is indeed a truth, then you can make that comparison. Until then, it's apples and oranges.

Answer 8

The truth, but an intelligent person should already know this about atheists.

Answer 9

I would rather know how he knows what the truth is.


Witch doctors and shamans believe they are telling you the truth.

Answer 10

I'd want the truth and then I'd get another opinion or two.