Let’s just assume, for a minute, that God doesn’t exist, the Bible is false, Christians aren’t anything special, heaven and hell don’t exist and nothing exists after death. This is what atheist believe, whereas the Christians believe in a wonderful afterlife – a paradise with the almighty and all-loving God who created the universe. The ultimate paradise…for enternity. Sounds pretty amazing to me, and Christians are happy. They really are. They believe they have a wonderful life ahead of them, a even better afterlife, and everything to live for.
Why do atheist seek to crush their dreams? Sure, they may think it’s false and ridiculous – but it’s not like the majority of Christians are doing any harm. Millions of churches and religious organizations around the world help people and do good. Doesn’t it seem kind of pointless, and down right cruel, to ruin someone’s dreams and try to destroy the very reason they live “good and moral lives – for Christ”.
I mean, whats so good about atheism; that they want to, in essence, convert Christians over to….nothing. The belief in nothing. No God, no religion, no ultimate good, no eternal love – kinda bleak idea to me.
Now for those who have already fallen into doubting (me) we can’t help but to keep looking because as long as we are sane people we will recognize that doubt and want to figure it out. But for those stuck in their religion, why be a jerk and ruin their lives and believes. You don’t tell a little kid that Santa doesn’t exist just because he doesn’t.
Spencer Daniels B.
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October 21, 2009 at 1:10 am
Stavros
“Let’s just assume, for a minute, that God doesn’t exist, the Bible is false, Christians aren’t anything special, heaven and hell don’t exist and nothing exists after death.”
Actually this is the default position. Belief isn’t necessary, just evidence for any other position.
October 21, 2009 at 4:05 pm
Ryan
Stavros – why does your position of big bang and natural evolution not need proof (there is still no proof of how life began) but belief in intelligent design does need proof (which it does not have in concrete terms but does have in logical reasoning of the infinitely small chance of everything on earth being so balanced as to support life)?
November 7, 2009 at 7:36 am
Stavros
LOL there is proof for both a big bang, and natural evolution and the position is a much simpler one.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Bang#Observational_evidence
If you think there is no evidence for evolution, there’s no point in continuing as I don’t waste time with the purposefully ignorant.
The position for a self directed intelligence that poofed out of nothing with the knowledge of everything and then created it all with a wave of its human shaped magic hands requires much much more evidence as that position is even more complex and make even larger unsupported claims.
The logical reasoning of the “infinitely small chance…” ie “thinking is hard, I don’t understand probabilites” is laughable.