(December 17, 2017 at 5:30 am)Die Atheistin Wrote: My family moderate and meeting other believers makes them happy.
1. If they meet a believer for the first time, how do they know that the person isn't fundamentalist, or pretending to believe, or a moderate but immoral?
2. What if a close person leaves the faith? What if he or she pretends to believe out of fear of being rejected?
3. What if their religion becomes the minority? What if other religions grow or atheism grows?
As an atheist I might experience the problems listed above, but I'm not very emotionally attached to my lack of faith.
Christians shouldn't be emotionally tied to their faith because that faith should become belief and trust.
I can see that you might get emotional over even the smallest thing because you seem to live in the "if" world and that world doesn't exist. It is a pretend world at best and the world for the nutty at it's worst.
GC
God loves those who believe and those who do not and the same goes for me, you have no choice in this matter. That puts the matter of total free will to rest.
