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Originally Posted by l'avatar  to this day, i don't understand on how an atheists mind works. other than being a total mindnumbing queer who goes on & on about how much religion is fraud & has never worked for them. if God doesn't work for you, chances are he does not want you to live. |
I feel like your image of atheists is severely coloured. You assume that they're totally different from you, but that really is just a vocal minority, and it seems as though you identify atheism as foaming and angry purely because it's the only type that's visible to you. Most atheists don't evangelicise. There's a few who just can't leave religion alone, but a lot of atheists do effectively what a lot of Christians do - derive their morality from society's mass interpretation of the Bible and ignore the bits they don't like. You'd probably mistake them for Christians purely because they don't appear that different to the outside. Plenty of people go to church without really believing in God, but continues to benefit from the ritual, the sense of community, etc. I don't know many who actually take the Bible as gospel, but it's not as if the "rules" in it aren't, for the most part, good ones.
This thread isn't meant to be nihilistic. I'm curious, for example, if God's existence were actually disproven, would you still continue to believe in the message of the Bible? I'm asking this question because many people, in debate, will argue that a god can exist, and then act as if this excuses them filling in the gaps in certainty with whatever they want, which is fine until you start criticising others for filling them in differently.
And re your last point, perfect example: maybe God doesn't want me to live. He doesn't seem to be doing much about it, like killing me or anything, so what difference does it make? Can I live with the knowledge that God thinks I'm a cunt, if there are no direct consequences of Him thinking that?
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