Atheists

[Shell B]

Why do you feel the need to get through to theists?

I only feel that need about certain things and it doesn't apply only to theists. I don't give a shit if you believe in god, but if you tell me that I'm going to hell, the Earth is only a few thousand years old or any other such nonsense, then I feel the need to argue the point. I can't disprove the existence of god, but I can disprove a lot of other mumbo-jumbo. As for needing to get through to theists, I don't feel that way. I told you what I saw in the forum, in reply to your assertion about atheists. I never told you how I felt about it. You are quite the leaper.

Don't preachers feel the same way about getting through to atheists? It's the same thing, a need to be agreed with.

Preachers are a pain in the ass and, no, it isn't a need to be agreed with. In my case, it is a wish that people would wake the fuck up and stop wasting time and money on religion. In the preacher's case, he wants me to worship him as a servant of god. It's a power trip.

Whichever way you cut it, you want me to be an atheist.

I'm going to be honest. Hopefully, this will not come off as insulting. I don't know you. I really don't care what you do at all, literally. I don't give a shit.

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.

It doesn't matter. I don't care what you want (no offense) and no such person will ever exist.

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?

It doesn't matter. I will never have that evidence. It would be pointless for me to ponder the idea.

I doubt it. I think you'd shout it from the rooftops in the hope that all are finally deconverted.

I wouldn't shout it from the rooftops like a scientologist. I would write an article about it. Duh.

That's the difference, I have no need.

Then why do you argue (if you could call it that) your position so much?

It's actually none of my business what your beliefs or nonbeliefs are.

If you don't want to discuss it, what are you doing here?

And if I had the power to convert you, I wouldn't, I'd leave you just as you are.

Irrelevant.