Simple question for Christians.

[Rhondazvous]

I'll make this short. 

Do you think that atheists have a harder time disbelieving in the Christian god than other gods?

In other words, do you think we have to struggle in order to maintain our disbelief in Yahweh/Jesus, but have no struggle disbelieving in Allah or Shiva or Ahura-Mazda, etc?

If only the answer were as simple as the question.

Really, it's not so much disbelief that makes an atheist struggle (I pause here to say that I am speaking of atheism from my experience. Others may feel differently). All gods are equally not here. But because our society is saturated in the trappings of Christendom, it is harder to get away from the idea of Jesus. What's all up in our face is Christianity not Jesus.

For those who live in a Christian community, this may be an incessant struggle with cognitive dissonance.

I remember when I was profoundly deaf and had no reason to know about cell phones. In 1997 I begin to notice people walking around holding their ears and talking to themselves. To see one or three people doing something crazy, we think that person is crazy. But when we see everybody doing it, we begin to wonder if maybe we're the one who is crazy.

Christians know what kind of society they have created for us. It's disingenuous of them to take the power of suggestion and tell us we secretly know god exists. I say disingenuous because they may come in here acting obtuse, but they did't sustain a worldwide religion for thousands of years without knowing something about human psychology.




That's why having a place like AF is important. Here we can remind each other what planet we're on and what world we're in.