(February 12, 2015 at 1:42 pm)emilynghiem Wrote:(February 11, 2015 at 7:52 pm)Brakeman Wrote: Forgiveness??? For what infraction? Why would an atheist have to ask a christian for forgiveness for not believing in their god claim?
Should we atheists say sorry for the all of the contradictions, the evil, the plagiarized parts of the bible, and the mountains of missing evidence that make us unable to fake belief?
Hi @Brakeman
For people to hear and understand each other,
the Forgiveness has to be mutual. Christians and Atheists cannot go into discussions already rejecting and assuming the other is false.
So the first step is forgiving that we have our differences and that, yes, there are assumptions and mistakes made on all sides. The corrections are mutual, and when people realize the changes are also mutual, then there isn't this battle of wills working "against" each other to "try to make the other wrong" -- the battle becomes a shared effort to "try to make things right."
I hate to tell you this, but only one side of that converastion believes the other is a bad person deserving of eternal torture because of his or her beliefs.
In every country and every age, the priest had been hostile to Liberty.
- Thomas Jefferson
- Thomas Jefferson
