RE: What are your answers?
August 26, 2011 at 2:35 pm
(This post was last modified: August 26, 2011 at 2:44 pm by Anymouse.)
(August 25, 2011 at 11:43 am)salty Wrote:
Well, coming to a place called atheistforums.org and asking mocking questions is disrespectful too, but I'll let that go. I am assuming you did not run "prayer and spirituality" through Google and come up with this site.
I am not an atheist, so I presume these questions do not apply to me. Christians just want to burn us, not convert us. But these questions come up all the time, especially from Christians, mostly it seems to bait atheists.
So I'll give you the Wiccan answers, since you didn't ask them to anyone but atheists.
[1] Are Christians just wounded people, angry that all other religions have had divinity revealed to them in a different way?
[2] Presumably, anyone of rational mind when presented with irrefutable evidence must accept the veracity of that evidence. If Lord and Lady were to appear corporeally to you and perform some act in support of Wiccan's idea of magic (instead of the Christian idea of magic), would you accept the validity of Wicca?
[3] Wiccans (and atheists) do not hate the idea of Jesus. They do not believe in the idea of Jesus. Non-belief is not hatred. On the other hand, Christians kill every day even now in the name of God and Jesus. They claim plausible deniability when one of their own does something in the name of their religion, saying "he is not a real Christian."
The Inquisition and Westboro Baptist Church of Topeka are not perversions of Christianity, they are expressions of Christianity.
[4] Atheists do not convert to another religion, as they do not have a religion. They can convert to a religion, including Christianity, but are unlikely to do so as they employ logic and rational thinking, not found in Christian faith in general. I do not know of any. I do know a number of Christians who have converted to Wicca over the innumerable inconsistencies of Christianity and the people who practice it.
[5] An atheist would ask the same of you. They might also ask if you are a Christian because you were raised that way. Did you study innumerable religions: animism, Buddhism, Sikhism, Janism, Shinto, Hinduism, Scientology, Santeria, Vooduin, Wicca, &c. ad nauseum? Did you study the multitude of Christian sects before selecting one, or did you just decide you are a Christian without the benefit of a church? That you are qualified to interpret writings over two thousand years old and multiply translated questionably from original documents which are not now known? Or do you simply accept the words of a KJV that one cannot hope to understand unless a student of ancient Modern English, meaning you really don't know what it says? Martin Luther made note of that about the Latin Bibles in use in his day. Yours is like the Latin Bible if you use the KJV.
[6] Why do Christians force their religion onto our money, on Ten Commandment monuments in our nation's courthouses and government buildings, and pseudoscience into our nation's education system?
I have seen far more mockery and verbal assault against atheists than from them. This is atheistforums.org, not christianelightenment.$$$. Do you honestly believe a Christian would treat an atheist well who comes into their forums and simply propounds the Gospel of Nothing?
I have seen Christian love in the picketing and death threats against my family from Pat Robertson's students at CBN when I ran a Wiccan bulletin board service in Virginia Beach. Irene's coming to get him. Goddess shall not be denied her due. One ignores Nature at one's peril.
Wicca is a nature and fertility religion, and Irene is one of the most powerful examples of nature in weather. It will kill and destroy indiscriminately, Christian and all others alike. If your God is so protective, why would he visit destruction and death on his own flock? If you so believe in the power of prayer to Jesus, why aren't you in North Carolina on the beach praying for God's deliverance? You don't have sufficient faith, perhaps?
Wiccans (and atheists) can show you Irene. They can point to its power and destructive force. Where is Jesus? Can you show him to me (not alleged writings by alleged prophets and apostles that claim they saw him)? Will you convert to a nature religion such as Wicca, which can provide evidence and proof of Nature every day? Or to atheism because weather forecasters can provide scientific explanations for weather phenomena such as hurricanes, and can make far more accurate predictions about them than prophets in the Bible ever did?
"Be ye not lost amongst Precept of Order." - Book of Uterus, 1:5, "Principia Discordia, or How I Found Goddess and What I Did to Her When I Found Her."
