(September 20, 2012 at 12:22 pm)Reasonable_Jeff Wrote: I appreciate the candid responses.
I've put up barriers in the past to really engaging with any atheists, dismissing them as simply not wanting to be held accountable to a higher power or wanting to be "gods" of their own lives.
I've realized that it was a caricature and "repenting" of it.
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Why do you think we're atheists then? If you reject the caricature (the caricature that we know God exists and are just denying it because we don't like God), then you're admitting that we're convinced Christianity is false because of reason and science. Obviously if the Christian God exists, and atheists are not convinced convinced of this fact then it's because we atheists have reasoned incorrectly. It'd be simple error on our part that we're not aware of. If that is so, God would be condemning us because of an error of judgement, an error caused by our mental faculties. Who designed our mental faculties? God did. Therefore God is to blame for our rejection of him.
Reconsidering the whole "atheists are just rebels" argument now?
My ignore list
"The lord doesn't work in mysterious ways, but in ways that are indistinguishable from his nonexistence."
-- George Yorgo Veenhuyzen quoted by John W. Loftus in The End of Christianity (p. 103).
"The lord doesn't work in mysterious ways, but in ways that are indistinguishable from his nonexistence."
-- George Yorgo Veenhuyzen quoted by John W. Loftus in The End of Christianity (p. 103).
