(January 5, 2016 at 2:00 pm)God of Mr. Hanky Wrote:(January 3, 2016 at 9:45 am)Jehanne Wrote: What were your reasons? Fear of death? Nothingness? Or, what convinced you that god, in fact, exists?
Some people will tell any lie when it will get them attention, especially paid interviews.
Anybody can claim they are or were atheist, just as anyone can claim to be a devout Xtian. Whether or not they really were, or understood the meaning of the claim they make is usually the first question which should be asked. At least the atheists who understand atheism can clearly define what that means without resorting to dismissing the doubter as willfully ignorant.
On death, it happens to all no matter what they believe. On the nothingness which follows, nothing is something which you should know cannot hurt you - not when there is no neural activity by which one could feel it. On being convinced, this is where you either have a case which has made you believe in one or more gods over many thousands of others, you believe in all of them despite their conflicts, or you have no good reason to believe in any of them. Part of growing up is to stop inventing imaginary friends just because we're lonely, and this is a problem with theists.
I've never dismissed any 'doubters' ...it's just not my thing. You sound like my Christian friends however who when I left the faith for a few years said...'you were never a true Christian.'
Didn't think this mindset goes on in atheist circles lol
At the end of the day, no one can tell someone else how to live...only share what makes your views, your views. For those who want to chastise people on either side of the fence, their rhetoric falls on deaf ears, as far as I'm concerned.
