Advice For Those Who Have 'Questions For Atheists'

[Jacob(smooth)]

Atheist do the same thing, they keep asking the same ridiculous questions that's be answered by Christians time and again, yet when we complain about having to answer the same questions we're told to stop complaining and put up with it. Double standard.

GC

GC, not finding the current arguments you guys make convincing, is not the same thing as repeating the question. What we're hoping is for a different answer that's actually satisfying, rather than the usual apologetics dodges or appeals to personal experience.

Depends exactly what question you are asking I guess. If you're asking "why do you believe that" then however half arsed the answer may seem to you, we've answered the question as best we can, no matter how your rephrase it my answer is not going to fit the question shaped hole in your head.

If you're asking "why do you think I should believe that" then of course that's a different kettle of fish altogether.

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Not so much ridiculous questions, but GC makes half a fair point.

Theists and Atheists alike have a lamentable tendency to think that the people in the other group live in holes, and have not heard the common arguments which seem convincing to them. From the slew of "CHRISTIANS EXPLAIN THIS" threads to the "if people evolved from apes, how come there are still apes" type questions, many of these debates take place in a somewhat condescending atmosphere. If I had a quid for every time I've read something on the lines of "the question which destroys Atheism / christianity" I'd be less annoyed when I read them.

Appeals to logic will not destroy any religions or any beliefs. We can show that a doctrine is illogical, but who really follows the doctrine these days? Everyone has their own version.

Quite true. There is a saying in Christian circles, "nobody has ever been reasoned into faith". To us that means that what we may see as sound logic and history cannot make someone believe. I don't know if the correlary is also true. I suspect so.