5th- I've lots of personal experiences with atheists, especially here, with the same reactions listed as symptoms of rejection while exhibiting none of the same towards atheists, save the occasional frustration. It's not really worth my time to go and search through a few thousand posts for you to simply comae back with, personal experience isn't evidence, or some kind of no true Scotsman fallacy. Which still doesn't address the premise that some who claim to be atheists are atheists because they feel rejected by God or religion. The same as some who claim to be Christian continue with their religious beliefs ignorantly, while exhibiting none of the Biblical standards by which to tell if someone is a Christian (ie. fruits of the spirit, etc.). Not that I'm a perfect example by any means, we all have our flaws.
It wasn't even really a premise, just a perspective to stir the pot a little. I agree with FnM though, if you feel rejected from god, then you're feeling something from god, and at least have some recognition of his existence to be rejected from. Not a basis for atheist belief.
It wasn't even really a premise, just a perspective to stir the pot a little. I agree with FnM though, if you feel rejected from god, then you're feeling something from god, and at least have some recognition of his existence to be rejected from. Not a basis for atheist belief.
"There ought to be a term that would designate those who actually follow the teachings of Jesus, since the word 'Christian' has been largely divorced from those teachings, and so polluted by fundamentalists that it has come to connote their polar opposite: intolerance, vindictive hatred, and bigotry." -- Philip Stater, Huffington Post
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