(September 22, 2016 at 5:17 am)chimp3 Wrote:(September 22, 2016 at 5:15 am)Excited Penguin Wrote: You could go into more details about why this man was an atheist, otherwise it seems to me like you ignored your own OP's stated intention with this thread, for the most part, and described an atheist's character instead of the reason for his skepticism.
But I'll play. And I hope the above observation didn't come off as rude. I just thought you might want some advice, lest others don't understand what you want out of this thread.
I've met some atheists in my life that didn't go into a lot of details about why they didn't believe in God. I found that frustrating at times, but you can't get a good answer out of everyone on the matter, so you just end up accepting it anyway. These answers ran along the lines of "It just doesn't make sense to me".
He did not like what christians had done to his people. That was it. He never expounded much further and was not a well read man.
I'm very sorry then. It turns out there was not more to the story, and I should've gotten that without you explicitly pointing it out.