RE: Atheists
July 21, 2010 at 8:59 pm
(This post was last modified: July 21, 2010 at 9:00 pm by Godhead.)
Void -
Obviously you haven't met most theists. I suspect that you're speaking only from your own experience. Even if 99% of theists that you encounter are christians (which would in itself condition you to expect them all to be - unless you choose not to let it do so), it is very easy to ask. Asking the question isn't such a challenge that it can't be done. Just type it. It may not be your job to define a theist's beliefs, but if you don't know ask. Otherwise you'll find yourself addressing a christian who isn't even there. If you are frustrated by anything I say or my beliefs or the way I express them or the fact that I can't prove them or even my lack of critical thinking, whose problem is it? I can assure you that it's not mine.
Shell B -
Why do you feel the need to get through to theists? Don't preachers feel the same way about getting through to atheists? It's the same thing, a need to be agreed with. Whichever way you cut it, you want me to be an atheist. Do I want you to be a theist? I don't mind either way, I have no need to convince you, and even if I was the first ever theist on earth to come up with airtight proof that god exists which no atheist could dispute, you know I'd probably keep it to myself unless asked. Could you say the same if you had absolute evidene that there's no possible way at all that a god could exist and which would convince all theists? I doubt it. I think you'd shout it from the rooftops in the hope that all are finally deconverted. That's the difference, I have no need. It's actually none of my business what your beliefs or nonbeliefs are. And if I had the power to convert you, I wouldn't, I'd leave you just as you are.
Obviously you haven't met most theists. I suspect that you're speaking only from your own experience. Even if 99% of theists that you encounter are christians (which would in itself condition you to expect them all to be - unless you choose not to let it do so), it is very easy to ask. Asking the question isn't such a challenge that it can't be done. Just type it. It may not be your job to define a theist's beliefs, but if you don't know ask. Otherwise you'll find yourself addressing a christian who isn't even there. If you are frustrated by anything I say or my beliefs or the way I express them or the fact that I can't prove them or even my lack of critical thinking, whose problem is it? I can assure you that it's not mine.
Shell B -
Why do you feel the need to get through to theists? Don't preachers feel the same way about getting through to atheists? It's the same thing, a need to be agreed with. Whichever way you cut it, you want me to be an atheist. Do I want you to be a theist? I don't mind either way, I have no need to convince you, and even if I was the first ever theist on earth to come up with airtight proof that god exists which no atheist could dispute, you know I'd probably keep it to myself unless asked. Could you say the same if you had absolute evidene that there's no possible way at all that a god could exist and which would convince all theists? I doubt it. I think you'd shout it from the rooftops in the hope that all are finally deconverted. That's the difference, I have no need. It's actually none of my business what your beliefs or nonbeliefs are. And if I had the power to convert you, I wouldn't, I'd leave you just as you are.
