This is the case in economics today, where Keynesian economists are attacked for their advocacy of «fiscal stimulus» to promote recovery from a deep recession; and in biology, where evolutionary biologists are attacked as
atheists because they are steadfast in their findings that the earth is billions rather than thousands of years old.
Gervais and his colleagues discovered that people distrust
atheists because of the belief that people behave better when they think that God is watching over them.
I like the New
Atheists because they bark at the Catholics.
I listen to
atheists because they are intrinsically valuable and worthwhile people.
I say most
atheists because compare the number of believers and atheists over here today and you will find the answer you're looking for.
I think that Atheists are greatly under - represented in polls because people don't want to self - identify as
Atheists because there are negative societal pressures.
Mormons are not afraid of
atheists because we know there is an after life.
Plenty of atheists are
atheists because of their reading of the Bible.
Actually there is no debate between faith believers and
atheists because atheists use science and logic and facts, you can see that this can never be debated over fairy tale.
I COULD do the same with Atheists, (and I use to brand
all atheists because of Mao, Stalin, Pol Pot, etc..)
These are dangerous questions for
atheists because it destroys your fantasy.
But like all of your kind you like to throw it back at
atheists because that way it takes the bitterness out of your own depraved life.
But Nazis were
atheists because I just can not admit that they were as Christian as me, so I decided that they must be atheist.
Actually, many if not most atheists were formerly religious and evolved into
atheists because they knew the bible so well.
Real question for everyone (though mostly
atheists because I think I already know what a believers answer would be).
From what I've seen, there isn't much difference in religious people and
atheists because majority of atheists come from religious backgrounds (parents, grandparents), so their moral system is something inherited from them.
Christians even found themselves being called
atheists because they dismissed the gods that people had traditionally worshipped.
It's assumed that Stalin and Mao were
atheists because they suppressed religion, but we really don't have any quotes about their personal views about gods existing.
I would contend that many atheists are
atheists because they have studied religion extensively.
Christians are going to turn on
the atheists because you can't reason with an atheist.
So as far as I am concerned all agnostics are actually
atheists because they currently don't believe in god.
I don't like
atheists because they bring pointless law suits against old lady's who work in government buildings that put fake little xmas tree's on their desk or hang up pictures of Santa, or who wear really ugly albeit festive sweaters during the holidays.
We, TRUE believers have lesser tendencies to commit murders and other unpardonable sins than
atheists because, we believe that aside from it is logically, morally and lawfully wrong to harm our fellow beings, we also believe that they are abominable in the sight of God.
He also believes in
atheists because he knows they exist because he created them.
Most deny the existence of murderous
atheists because they didn't «kill in the name of atheism».
Atheists know it, christians know it, but they like to throw that at
atheists because you think if god makes the universe that gives it more meaning than without a god forming the universe.
Ironically, atheists are often
atheists because they believe in truth.
Christians will be «called on the carpet» before
atheists because we are instructed to watch for the plank in our own eyes.
I chose not to join a group of
atheists because all that was being offered was the same absence of information I came in with.
If that willful misunderstanding of atheism helps you sleep at night, Sly, you are welcome to it, though I do find it sadly ironic how poorly you seem to understand atheism while simultaneously railing that atheists are only
atheists because they misunderstand god.
Also, it's a fallacy to as.sume the the Soviet Union's atrocities were by
atheists because Stalin was an atheist.
Most people are
atheists because they don't believe in God or organized religion.
They tolerate
atheists because they know that tolerance matters.
We don't know a lot about religion even though we are atheists; we are
atheists because we know so much about religion.
Not all atheists became
atheists because they are angry with God but there are many atheists who became
atheists because they are angry with God.
To say that atheists are
atheists because of an aversion to authority is an ad hominem — it has no bearing on the matter whether it is true or not (which it is not).
Most people — if not all — become
atheists because they use critical thinking and actually challenge their own beliefs.
Actually there are very few
atheists because not all monkeys turned into humans.
Atheists aren't
atheists because they've never heard a Bible verse, you twit.
-- First and foremost, atheists are
atheists because we simply see no objective reason to believe anything one could reasonably call a god exists.
One of the large groups missing from the typology is what I call «Temper Tantrum Atheists» - that is, people who call
themselves atheists because they are mad at God.
They tend to be
atheists because the case for gods is unsupported by any evidence, and therefor highly unbelievable.
Those are the ones who sort of become
atheists because they see all the hypocrisy in Christianity and religion in general.
This is essentially an unfair request set up by
atheists because you know it is exactly that because you are unwilling to submit to God.
Believers are not becoming
atheists because they were called morons, idiots or delusional nor are atheists «Getting right with God» because they were threatened with the fires of hell or given pleas to turn to Him.
They are
atheists because of the bible.
The Samaritans were considered by the Jews of Jesus» day to be worse than
atheists because they were regarded as hypocrites.
We are
atheists because we have no evidence for any gods.
I trust
atheists because they've help keep me alive for most of the last 14 years.
So the logic goes that people quit their faith because too many people of faith molest children, ergo atheists should quit being
atheists because so many atheists molest children.