I think we are talking about a "chicken & egg" thing here.
I've noticed a great number of people who do believe in God who agitate those who lack belief as well.
Did the people who lack belief start mocking first or did they start to mock in response to the way they were treated?
In either event, mocking others serves no purpose other than to alienate people.
I don't have any belief in a god, and I don't mock people for their beliefs, at least not without cause.
You seem to be making a lot of assumptions. Have you noticed that?
Because you try and impose your beliefs on other with you even going so far as to influence laws with your religion to better impose it on others but then cannot take it when someone mocks your religion. Christians too many time expect what they are not willing to give in return. They simply can dish it out but cannot take it. They demand the utmost respect for their belief and way of life not expecting anyone to stand in their way but not wiling to return the favor with others that believe differently and live their lives differently.
"Why do you come on here and mock and fun of those that do believe."
I mainly come here to answer questions about or addressed to atheists, especially when they contain falsehoods about us. I don't usually mock theists, unless I think they really deserve it.
"I pray that you change your ways before you get left behind."
If prayer worked, that would at least be some evidence of a god.
"We are living in the last days there is still hope for you but you have to want it."
People have been saying that we are living in the last days for nearly 2000 years now. In order to want something, I have to think it is true.
For one who pretends to be Christian but attacks others to drive them away from God WAKEUP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
YOU ARE DOING SATAN's WORK!!!!!!!!
the problem is not anything to do with atheists, God, Jesus, the bible, or even Christianity and all to do with the intolerance, hatred, bigotry, homophobia and persecution posted by BAD Christians towards others!
ALL the other religions and atheists live in peace and are ONLY attacked by BAD Christians which causes all GOOD Christians to despair at the damage they do!
The self-destruction of Christianity is underway and the only thing that can stop it is to abandon the terrible human emotions, seek to rediscover the idea of a loving god and act like it!
BAD Christians not only drive people further away from God but are the reason so many DECENT people are becoming ANTI THEISTS!
Pew News reports Christianity is shrinking with a corresponding rise in atheism!
Five times as many Americans in 2014 said they never prayed compared to those asked the same question in the 1980s
"Beware of practicing your righteousness before men to be noticed by them; otherwise you have no reward with your Father who is in heaven. -Mat 6:1
Treat a man as he appears to be, and you make him worse. But treat a man as if he were what he potentially could be, and you make him what he should be. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Christianity is not about hating others but about worshipping the LOVING GOD!!!!!!!
We've been living the last days for over 2,000 years ...
You with your silly doom monger nonsense, and you ask why people of your ilk are mocked.
you ask a question then I can answer it how I see fit
you dont want to get mocked then dont ask a question on what you believe vs what I believe (esp. a stupid one)
YOU for example have asked a question specifically aimed at atheists (I have no problem with that)
But I bet YOU will pick an answer given by a theist (which I DO have a problem with)
why would you ask atheists a question THEN pick a theist answer?
But you dont just ask the question and leave it at that, YOU insist an adding theist comments which have nothing to do with the question
dont you grasp how pathetically stupid that is?
Thats just asking to get mocked
I come here to remind you, and people like you, that I support your right to believe any ridiculous junk you want, and have suffered and bled for that freedom. But don't think for one second that you have the right to enforce your silly fairy tale beliefs on the rest of us.
In 1 Kings 18:22 etc, YOUR Bible reports that a mere mortal human named Elijah set up a demonstration to prove to those who doubted AND to those who mocked, that the EXISTENCE and POWER of the GOD of the Bible is not just a shared delusion among those who believe.
Well, that was about 3,000 years ago, and those who saw it are dead.
How about YOU do something to "cure" our atheism?
MATTHEW 7:7 flat-out PROMISES you that if you ASK, it shall be GIVEN.
So, ask your God for two prayers.
When Prayer #1 is said, and a dozen coins are tossed into the air, they ALL land "heads up", every time.
When Prayer #2 is said, those same coins ALL land "tails up", every time.
And when NO prayer is said, they land in random patterns.
This would be a lot less messy than chopping up a bullock, and could be done indoors.
It would prove, every time the experiment was run, that your God CAN affect things in the REAL word, and WILL do so, consistently.
Of course, if some Teller of Stories just MADE UP the yarn about Elijah, and if some Teller of Stories just MADE UP the Promise from Jesus, there's not much chance of you coming up with two prayers, or ANY testable, repeatable proof that your favorite God actually exists.
And if we are NOT supposed to seek proof of existence, why do people claim that YOUR God told PAUL to tell EVERYBODY to "Prove all things."? (1 Thessalonians 5:21)
What could be MORE IMPORTANT than proving that we are choosing the RIGHT God, out of all the thousands which have been imagined, since before the beginning of written history?
I do wish there was a kinder, gentler way to ask Believers in ANY religion to put up or shut up.
Clock starts now.
參考: YOUR Bible
Because God is not real. This is a man made Concept, we want you to free yourself from theses religions. You were introduced to theses religions by man. JESUS IS SERAPIS, a European man.
They should study the Bible and find the only true God Jehovah. - Psalm 83:18.
參考: Bible
There must be a whole load of atheists holding a smoking gun, with a hole in one foot.
Treasure out of darkness - AMEN!
Hello, I add, you doesn't force anyone for anything even it is true, only advice him some time and doesn't annoy him, but if person need help then assist him. a god is real but not problem if the person doesn't believe of him but the important that no one does non-normal problems, where a god is control the life anyway.
You make a good point in your question but you follow it up with your own perception in which Christ tried to help us understand about ourselves, I think it can be said that even those who claim to believe in God actually don't, but they believe in their own perception of God, because how many Christians actually believe the Kingdom of God is Within as Jesus said? I've only heard Christians say that's not what Jesus meant, what he really meant was the Kingdom is all around us..... and that is exactly what Satan would have you believe because it removes the power of God out of you.....this is exactly what Jesus chastised the Lawyers over, Nobody wants to believe that Gods Kingdom is within, Jesus asked them why do they prohibit them from entering within when they themselves don't enter within, one must ask themselves, what does within mean? it means you are the light of God, and God is within you, Jesus said if your eye be single your body will fill with light...what light? God's light....I never met a single Christian who's eye was single.
is it non-believers that cause so much evil and crime in america, then?
it is good to know that 98% of these so called evil-people are christian people. when 98% of the community is christian, then 98% of the crimes are christian-on-christian crimes.
it is the fault of the churches themselves for not being able to over-come the evil in the people.
the streets are lined with churches, there are over 6000-different christian religions in the USA.
yet, the contentiousness of the people is very deep and permeates every level of society.
why doesn't christian religion bring peace to the people?
because christianity itself has deviated from the true nature of life, and thus has lost the power to save or protect people from suffering. most of the suffering the people in america endure are from other people.
the christian way of life, seems then, to only make people unhappy and miserable in the long run.
only a true religion will bring peace to the country.
Just because they don't believe they want to make sure we don't believe either. We are supposed to respect their opinions but they won't respect ours.
At least Christianity is a positive religion. Why would you block someone from doing something positive?
If they think Christians are bad people who do bad things I don't think they've had much experience with one.
They're usually the ones who want Muslims here in unlimited numbers (the ones who believe they must kill you if you don't convert). But here they are picking on us.
How many of them have volunteered at a food bank even once?
No ''sheeplike'' ones will be lost, even some who are atheist at present will wake up to the truth and turn to Jehovah, so keep active in the ministry and make good use of the direction we're given and our ''tool box.''
Why Atheists (and Everyone Else) Should Support Freedom of Religion
While freedom of religion or belief is being seen more and more merely as a right to worship rather than a right to freely exercise one’s faith in daily life, and with increasingly concerted efforts to intimidate believers and suppress religious viewpoints and practices, religious liberty should instead be seen as a foundational freedom that sustains other critical freedoms and human rights and is fundamental to societal well-being.
“Freedom of religion benefits not only believers but all of society, whether they know it or not,” he said, “Therefore, all have an interest in protecting this freedom, whether they are believers or not.”
In an address titled—somewhat tongue-in-cheek, he admitted—“Why Atheists (and Everyone Else) Should Support Freedom of Religion or Belief,” Elder Christofferson listed three major benefits to supporting freedom of religion or belief:
1.Religious freedom supports and strengthens the rule of law.
2.Freedom of religion or belief is foundational to other fundamental and cherished freedoms.
3.Religion or belief—freely exercised—promotes civic virtue and is vital to strong, flourishing communities.
One feature of the sign marking “the last days” would be “ridiculers [literally, players in sport (of mocking)] with their ridicule, proceeding according to their own desires [“own desires for ungodly things”; Jude 17, 18] and saying: ‘Where is this promised presence of his? Why, from the day our forefathers fell asleep in death, all things are continuing exactly as from creation’s beginning.’” (2Pe 3:3, 4) Obviously, such ones do not heed the advice of Isaiah 28:21, 22, warning of the grave danger of scoffing at God.
The apostle Paul warns of the serious danger that attends an attempt to mock God, that is, the danger that comes to one who thinks that the principles of God’s administration can be treated with contempt or can successfully be evaded. He writes to the Galatian Christians: “For if anyone thinks he is something when he is nothing, he is deceiving his own mind.Do not be misled: God is not one to be mocked. For whatever a man is sowing, this he will also reap; because he who is sowing with a view to his flesh will reap corruption from his flesh, but he who is sowing with a view to the spirit will reap everlasting life from the spirit.”—Ga 6:3-8.
Here the apostle shows that a person should not deceive himself with a false estimate of his own worth, thereby ignoring God and his Word. He should clean up his life to walk by the spirit as the Word directs. If a person does not do this, but instead goes on sowing with a view to fleshly desires, he is ‘accepting the undeserved kindness of God and missing its purpose’ and is treating God’s instruction as contemptible. (2Co 6:1) He may deceive himself into thinking that he is safe. Nevertheless, God knows his heart and will judge him accordingly. (CB/Bible/JW.org)
They always live in the last days - They are more prudent with thier own.
Belief in God doesn't save anyone... so what if they believe? The demons believe (and rightly shudder).
God has made his divine nature and eternal wisdom plain to everyone through what has been made, so they have no excuse.
So how do they get saved? You've got a cross on your avatar.... you should therefore know.
Preach Christ and Christ crucified. For this is the truth that will set them free.
Actually atheists are remembering God more than the theists. Remembering and contemplating on God is necessary for liberation. Thou hatredness is in an upbeat mood, atheists are still remembering God anyhow.
So this proves God s drama has best of it s plans.