Try God...

[Mister Agenda]

Just of the top of my head, I would say it's peer pressure and it feels like other people telling you to believe what they do when you didn't ask for their opinion.

And you're positive they were not trying to offer help and comfort, they may not have known k2490 was an atheist.

I don't have to be postive. When 20% of the population is not Christian, it's not polite or thoughtful to assume that everyone you meet is a Christian. It's like a white person assuming everyone they talk to on the internet is white. There's no excuse for pretending the bubble you live in surrounds everyone.

This reminds me of something a friend of mine was telling me about Sunday. Last week he was waiting in line at the Post Office, and the clerk and a customer started talking about being filled with the Holy Spirit, and soon a couple more people joined in and next thing you know the line isn't moving because everyone in front is talking about how great Jesus is. They started trying to draw other people in and one guy says to my friend, 'Don't you just love Jesus!?'. My friend says 'I don't have anything against him, but I'm an atheist'. The guy's jaw drops and he sputters and he goes to the little old lady waiting behind my friend and says 'You love Jesus though, don't you?'. She says 'Actually, I'm Jewish. If Jesus had to stand in this line he'd probably ask you to hurry it up if he had other errands to run like I do'.

I do live in America. What I don't understand is why atheist can't accept that Christians can be brilliant scientist, if you were to sit down and talk to these men you would be amazed at their level of intelligence, the youth I taught was 22 when he received his PHD. in nuclear engineering.

I have yet to hear an atheist claim that a Christian can't be a brilliant scientist. This isn't the first time I've heard a Christian claim that atheists can't accept that Christians can be brilliant scientists, though.