What are your answers?

[Tiberius]

What a lousy designer indeed...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4HW06Wz_R74

[The Grand Nudger]

A better banana, that's small fucking potatoes compared to grain crops (and potatoes). Which we had begun breeding from wild cultigens about 8,000 years before we began the banana project (and about 9,800 before the modern banana). Not only did we improve the design of these crops, without them we would certainly die of starvation. Some design.

Psalm 147:14 "He makes peace in your borders; He satisfies you with the finest of the wheat."

By the time that this psalm was written, we had been cultivating wheat for so long that the writer was unaware that the very wheat he was thanking god for was a product of human tinkering in the natural world. To support a society with grain took selective breeding, the ability to process by pounding or cooking(or both), as well as evolutionary adaptation that allowed our stomachs (not built for grain) to sequester nutrition from the finished product.

But hell, why not. Let's thank god for grain, may as well ignore the 180,000 years man was without.

[leo-rcc]

Nick Gisburne can be a grumpy git, but he can be so funny.

[zip_ster]

1. Are athiests just wounded people, upset that God hasn't shown himself to them in a way they deem acceptable? Meaning, if he suddenly appeared you would believe?
First, this framing of non beleivers as wounded God- haters is nothing more than propaganda. It keeps beleivers opposed to and closed off from any real debate that might challenge their faith. JMO.
Second, no, to answer your question I do not hate God, although some of his folowers piss me off bigtime.

2. Do athiests hate God or do they hate organized religion in general?
Organized religion I hate with a red- faced purple passion. Some of the people I love the most in this world are theists.

3. Why does it seem like athiests hate Jesus more than anyone, what do you think of Jesus? I once thought Jesus was the most wonderful thing that ever happened to me. My faith in Him has vanished in a puff of reason, and been blown away by hateful theists, many years ago now.

4. Do any of you know athiests that have converted to another religion, did you feel swayed by their conversion? I don't know many Atheists at all.

5. Are you an athiest based on your research of many of the top religions, or does your athiesm come from a personal experience where you feel that God didn't show up like he should have? Both of the above.

6. Since athiests don't believe in God and dislike when people force God on them, why do they force their negative and hateful opinions on Christians (and other religions) through mockery and verbal assault?
My verbal assaults come from anger that I was fed a line of bullshit and proceeded to build a life around it. I guess you could say I'm just mad at my self, if that helps.

Thank you, in advance, for your responses! It would be great if you could respond to all the questions. I'm speaking to real athiests who respect my desire to understand the feelings behind athiesm. I do not intend to be disrespectful, if I am, please let me know what should be rephrased. Thanks again.

Salty

[Thor]

THOR! That means just about every day you experience something that kind of makes you crazy!

No, it doesn't make me "crazy". It mostly makes me roll my eyes and think how deluded the person is.

I'm just imagining, in your shoes, what it feels like to be...bombarded with pressure to love someone that you don't know or care about.

Fortunately, I was not raised in a household where this kind of pressure was prevalent. However, I have heard (and seen videos of) the kind of pressure put on people (particularly kids) to believe the religious teachings of their parents. Entire families will estrange themselves from a family member who is an atheist. If this isn't "pressure to love someone you don't know or care about", I don't know what is.

It would be like me seeing signs about Vishnu or...Zues or...Apollo! Something that I didn't feel was real, all over people's cars, their faces, their bodies, in public places...wow, you're right that would be so irritating.

I never said it was irritating. I said that believers are LOUD in proclaiming what they consider to be "the truth". Since they are LOUD, I'll be equally LOUD. Even so, I don't knock on the doors of strangers and hand out atheist literature. I don't stand on street corners shouting that there is no god. I don't have a tv or radio network broadcasting atheist programming.

It is believers who changed the Pledge of Allegiance to include the words "under God". It is believers who put "In God we trust" on our money. It is believers who put renderings of the Ten Commandments in public courthouses. It is believers who want public proclamations calling for prayer. It is believers want to infuse their propaganda into every day life. This is what I find to be "irritating".

[Minimalist]

Yeah....believers suck, Thor.

[Thor]

Yeah....believers suck, Thor.

What really gets me is when believers do a good deed and credit "Jesus" or "God" with "inspiring" them.

So let me get this straight... if your deity didn't somehow "inspire" you to do a good deed, you wouldn't have done it? This puts you on the same level as a teenager who has to be prodded by his mother to carry bags of groceries for the old lady next door.

Don't these people have a mind of their own? I've done plenty of good deeds, and not once did I do it because I thought some invisible man in the sky wanted me to.

[The Grand Nudger]

These are the people that still take the shears to little Timmy's business in his first days of life. It's a contract from god, after all.

Pro-Tip: Did you know that the throne of Isreal can be bought for a certain amount of heathen foreskin?

[Epimethean]

Does summer know this?

[The Grand Nudger]

How do you think she got it? Puts all those pro-pagan posts into perspective doesn't it. Hold on to your fertility boys.