(May 25, 2011 at 5:25 pm)Emanuel Wrote:(May 25, 2011 at 5:01 pm)technophobe Wrote: I don't give a flying fuck at a rolling doughnut why Christians want me to convert. What I want is for them to leave me alone.I'm going to summarize it.
When confronted by some moron wanting to know what religion I am, I reply "An atheist Buddhist." Of course, they think I worship Buddha, so my reply generally dumbfounds them.
When a person become a Christian, that person experiments something which we call "salvation". We are all sinners thus in enmity with the God of justice. When one becomes a Christian he receives forgiveness, and is given the privilege of being "born-again" and becoming more like Christ, thus lives a life of righteousness. Thus that person comes from death to life. It is pretty much the greatest tipe of salvation one can acheive.
When one becomes an atheist there isn't such a thing called "salvation". There is no "saving" experience for the atheist like the one the Christian experiences. He just encounters the crude reality. It isn't anything like what the Christian experiences. Now since the Christian received 'salvation' -the most beautiful thing from his point of view, and since he is instructed to love his neighbor as himself- it is only natural for him to want to share it.
Perhaps with an analogy you would understand be better? Imagine that two friends are lost in a desert with no water. They get separated for a while and one of them finds a pool with water, an oasis. He drinks and is satisfied and then he goes on. He meets his friend again. Now, wouldn't it be wrong if this person wouldn't mention the oasis to his thirsting friend? This is how it is from the Christian perspective. The dying one is the unbeliever, who's dying of thirst. The other one would be the Christian. Since the Christian found life, it would be wrong for him not to want to share it and let the others die.
I hope I did not write this in vain.
Xtians either from birth or reborn all suffer from the same delusion i.e. " god ". In all probability, " god " doesn't exist.
Atheists are free of delusion, free of fear of judgement, despise the thing you call " god " and simply make the most of life, without feeling the arrogant need to share that belief.
Your desert analogy doesn't help you. Only a selfish friend who is not a friend would keep secret the oasis ( which has been pointed out is a mirage anyway ).
You'll need to do a lot better than this brother!
A man is born to a virgin mother, lives, dies, comes alive again and then disappears into the clouds to become his Dad. How likely is that?
