(September 29, 2009 at 3:26 pm)Eilonnwy Wrote: Solarwave: It's a common misconception that atheists hate god (ridiculous notion) or they turned away from God because of a bad experience, etc... When time and time again if you ask an atheist, they did so because the evidence of God was lacking.
Even if statistics showed the majority of atheists came from "boring fundy churches" as you carelessly claimed, it would not prove your point. It's irrelevant.
Not meaning it to be an insult but you waving away those possible statistics like that doesn't seem all that different from what creationists do to science. Say its all coincidence and move on as if nothing happen.
I know not all hate God, some do 'cough Dawkins'.
Of course an atheist would say the evidence was lacking, you would have to be a very honest people to accept that your 'logical' view of life possibly comes from a bad experience of church. Im more talking about the lack of good church more than simply not liking church. And couldn't the evidence be lacking because of the church you go to? What if you could have been brought up in a church with more evidence for God but now you've grown up you wont look in those places? Im assuming alot in that last bit I know.
Mark Taylor: "Religious conflict will be less a matter of struggles between belief and unbelief than of clashes between believers who make room for doubt and those who do not."
Einstein: “The most unintelligible thing about nature is that it is intelligible”
Einstein: “The most unintelligible thing about nature is that it is intelligible”
