defining the atheist life....

PostmodernProphet

PostmodernProphet

fully immersed in faith..
since the board atheists felt the need to start a thread defining Christian life, I felt it only fair we have a thread to give balance.....

what do we know about atheists......
1) they are forced to struggle through life with no guidance other than their own feeble imaginations........
2) they feel compelled to criticize what everyone besides themselves believe.....

feel free to discuss.....
 
Iolo/Penderyn said:
An atheist life would seem to me going around obsessed with an out-dated belief held by other people.
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Neither are right. An atheist life is merely the absence of lip or actual service paid to some human-created deity. The vast majority of atheists don't care what others believe as long as they keep it to themselves.
 
ThatOwlWoman said:
Neither are right. An atheist life is merely the absence of lip or actual service paid to some human-created deity. The vast majority of atheists don't care what others believe as long as they keep it to themselves.
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then how do you explain the constant stream of threads from atheists discussing things like what kind of life Christian's should live?.......
 
PostmodernProphet said:
then how do you explain the constant stream of thread from atheists discussing things like what kind of life Christian's should live?.......
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Many, if not most, atheists in this country were raised as Christians so they have a pretty good idea of what the faith entails and what is expected of the faithful. Although I am not an atheist myself, I fall into that category too. Mom was a Sunday school teacher and dad was some muckety-muck in the church we went to. No doubt you've noticed, as have the rest of us, that atheists don't care *what* beliefs someone else has -- until they start using them to proclaim their superiority, inserting them into national politics, or otherwise employing their faith as a club rather than as a light in the darkness.
 
When my son was running track in middle school I had a discussion with one of the other parents at a meet. An extremely attractive young mother. Out of the blue she started talking about her atheism. I just listened and didn't interject my beliefs at all. After a lengthy train of thought she commented on how peaceful it must be to be a Christian. I just nodded my head in agreement.

If they are so happy with their beliefs, why do they insist on questioning them?
 
Jim Eagle said:
When my son was running track in middle school I had a discussion with one of the other parents at a meet. An extremely attractive young mother. Out of the blue she started talking about her atheism. I just listened and didn't interject my beliefs at all. After a lengthy train of thought she commented on how peaceful it must be to be a Christian. I just nodded my head in agreement.

If they are so happy with their beliefs, why do they insist on questioning them?
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Based on an experience with one person?

Intelligent people are always questioning. It is only the dull and incurious who accept at face value what they think that they know, and erect walls to make sure that no new information will leak in to challenge those beliefs.
 
ThatOwlWoman said:
No doubt you've noticed, as have the rest of us, that atheists don't care *what* beliefs someone else has -- until they start using them to proclaim their superiority, inserting them into national politics, or otherwise employing their faith as a club rather than as a light in the darkness.
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???....don't be silly.....I have noticed the exact opposite......again, why do you ignore all the threads on this board that demonstrate what I refer to.......here's another, started less than an hour ago....

katzgar said:
https://thehill.com/opinion/education/549125-why-americans-are-abandoning-the-church
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ThatOwlWoman said:
Based on an experience with one person?

Intelligent people are always questioning. It is only the dull and incurious who accept at face value what they think that they know, and erect walls to make sure that no new information will leak in to challenge those beliefs.
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I used that anecdote to illustrate my point. An upper middle class woman, blessed not only with financial success but fantastic genes, having everything that anyone could want out of life, yet probably the saddest person whom I have ever met.
 
PostmodernProphet said:
since the board atheists felt the need to start a thread defining Christian life, I felt it only fair we have a thread to give balance.....

what do we know about atheists......
1) they are forced to struggle through life with no guidance other than their own feeble imaginations........
2) they feel compelled to criticize what everyone besides themselves believe.....

feel free to discuss.....
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I am not an atheist, and if asked I would mostly gravitate to agnosticism - which to me is the correct posture based on reason. Unequivocal certainty and definitive belief or denial of a higher reality, a spiritual truth is not a mark of reason or the scientific mind, imo.

I think most atheists keep to themselves. There are a small minority who relentlessly troll Christians, but those types are more anti-Christian than they are disinterested atheists.

On the flipside, some bible thumpers deserve to get trolled.
 
Jim Eagle said:
I used that anecdote to illustrate my point. An upper middle class woman, blessed not only with financial success but fantastic genes, having everything that anyone could want out of life, yet probably the saddest person whom I have ever met.
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Sad because she's an atheist? Or something else? And you base this judgment on a few minutes spent at a kids' game?
 
PostmodernProphet said:
???....don't be silly.....I have noticed the exact opposite......again, why do you ignore all the threads on this board that demonstrate what I refer to.......here's another, started less than an hour ago....
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I hadn't noticed those threads today. Generally I ignore them because they're trolling and offer little in the way of interesting discussion.
 
There is no such thing as an 'atheist life' It's like saying there is an 'I don't believe in Santa' life. I realize that some people treat atheism as a religion, but it is not, and those folks are misguided. Atheism is an ABSENCE of belief. Christians are all atheists as well, I just believe in one fewer God than they do.
 
Cypress said:
I am not an atheist, and if asked I would mostly gravitate to agnosticism - which to me is the correct posture based on reason. Unequivocal certainty and definitive belief or denial of a higher reality, a spiritual truth is not a mark of reason or the scientific mind, imo.

I think most atheists keep to themselves. There are a small minority who relentlessly troll Christians, but those types are more anti-Christian than they are disinterested atheists.

On the flipside, some bible thumpers deserve to get trolled.
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Good points. I expect that we see more "militant atheists" on discussion forums simply for the same reason that we see more virulent extremists, conspiracy whacktards, gun nuts, eco nuts, and other ppl with strongly-held beliefs.

Your point about atheists keeping it to themselves is also a good one. After all, we see far more ppl sporting a cross than we do wearing one of these. lol

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ThatOwlWoman said:
Sad because she's an atheist? Or something else? And you base this judgment on a few minutes spent at a kids' game?
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It wasn't the first or last conversation that we had or in that venue. Our children were in the same Highly Academically Gifted program, and this small group met informally on many occasions. Based on her "out of the blue" musing, yes, I would say that it was extremely likely that her atheist beliefs was the cause of her sadness.
 
Jim Eagle said:
It wasn't the first or last conversation that we had or in that venue. Our children were in the same Highly Academically Gifted program, and this small group met informally on many occasions. Based on her "out of the blue" musing, yes, I would say that it was extremely likely that her atheist beliefs was the cause of her sadness.
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Hmm. More likely something else less easily diagnosed and fixed by going to church... marital issues, financial and/or career problems, or just clinical depression.
 
PostmodernProphet said:
since the board atheists felt the need to start a thread defining Christian life, I felt it only fair we have a thread to give balance.....

what do we know about atheists......
1) they are forced to struggle through life with no guidance other than their own feeble imaginations........
2) they feel compelled to criticize what everyone besides themselves believe.....

feel free to discuss.....
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Sure. Stupid and uninformed as usual from you.
 
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