Question for Atheists

[tonyc4444]

I did that. God, Family, Country. Everybody on the planet identifies with one of those three things. Well just about everybody. As many people in here already pointed out how important family is to them. I was simply wondering (erroneously apparently) if the Atheist community shared any other values.

I love books too! Especially writing them, fascinating stuff.

So beyond the differences in how atheists and Christians treat fictional writings, why do you even need to ask "atheists" as if we don't experience the same world of struggles any other person does? It's like asking, "What do people without beards like to do?"

Well that's kind of the rub isn't it? Why it's better to enrich your circle of knowledge than to look at things from one small point of view. It's just a simple fact of human nature that while we all live and struggle in the same world, we may perceive things differently based on our upbringing, values etc etc. Hell something as simple as a dress can be seen in different shades of color, so perception I think is key. God, Family, Country is easy. Everyone identifies with that. As far as atheists go, I'm not one so I don't know if you guys see things differently in that respect or not.

Beliefs in God aside, many of the answers I got today were good ones I hadn't considered like Materialism, prosperity, skepticism. I doubt very much I would have gotten those from a Christian group. I'd also like to point out that like many Christians I would have erroneously placed science ahead and the character may have come out completely different had I not had this discussion with a group of atheists.

Just as an example, the character I'm forming in my mind now is a young adult male who is highly skeptical at the things going on with in the story, he's highly into athleticism and very family oriented and will be completely shocked at some of the things Christians are going to do in the story. He's probably a gamer and is going to experience a significant loss in that regards, that and his family of course.

All of this just helps me form a picture in my head on the character.