(November 2, 2011 at 11:33 am)Doubting Thomas Wrote: Every time you read or hear comments like that from Christians toward atheists, just remember that it's the Christians who are filled with God's love while atheists are miserable, hateful, unhappy people.
You know, the more and more I go over it, I still find it difficult to understand the extreme hatred that Christians have for atheists. What does it matter to them that we don't believe what they believe? I think it has something to do with the fact that they have to live their lives by a rigid set of rules or else face eternal punishment while we aren't concerned by those superstitions. Therefore, I think there's a bit of jealousy there. Or, as I wrote in an article here, perhaps they know that their faith is on shaky ground so they lash out at us because they know they can't prove any of their beliefs.
In the article that senior member Doubting Thomas wrote:
“This appears to be one of the reasons for all the animosity Christians have toward nonbelievers. It's not just the "if you're not with us, you must be against us" attitude, but perhaps because deep down Christians know that they don't have ample evidence for God's existence. What do they have? A thousands-year-old book filled with stories of talking snakes, global floods, and dead people coming back to life that was written by superstitious sheep herders who didn't have the benefit of modern science with which to understand the world. They also have faith. Faith based on this ancient book, and nothing else. This is a very tenuous position to say the least.”
Click for the entire story. http://www.atheiststoday.com/articles.php?article_id=16
From my experience as a former Christian Fundamentalist (Cf) this is more of a background noise that sneaks in every now and then. Most cf’s are so deluded they don’t know how deluded they are. Others hear the noise more loudly but choose to make a loud noise themselves to drown out the unwanted sound.
There is doctrine they teach lay people regarding “the helmet of salvation” Ephesians 6:17 http://www.wordlibrary.co.uk/article.php?id=102 according to the article mentioned above “The hope of salvation is for the head. It covers our minds, intellect or reasoning. "
As it was explained to me it’s purpose was to block out sound and keep you focused. Don’t let the Evil one (in this case the Atheists) deceive you; put on your helmet. In other words the concept of ignoring anything that may cause them to question things is in their doctrine.
BTW they start teaching this particular doctrine at a young age. It usually involves attaching the concepts to something concrete. Children make little suits of armor and walk around in them. Anyone want to puke yet?
I couldn't find a puke smiley face thingy so I'll use this one
