by Hortensia 219 Replies latest social current
True believers, whether christian, muslim or whatever, want to convert you, they want you to believe what they do, and they're willing to go to extremes to make it happen. Atheists don't really care what you believe, and don't go out of their way to convert someone.
http://ow.ly/vN1JZ an example of what believers in power do to suppress any difference in thought
http://ow.ly/vRaEo an example of why believers want to suppress different ideas (because they can't win in a fair fight, that's why)
What an odd thread for someone who wrote favourable reviews of 'the manual for creating atheists' to start.
LOL! good comment - but, I believe, on the whole, that atheists aren't out to convert true believers. There aren't very many evangelical atheists, are there?
Hey Hortensia, I have been wondering where you were.
I have no problem with trying to refute superstition, but I don't want to to convert anybody to anything other than a personal relationship with reality.
Hi Cofty,
no where in particular. I just get bored with the annual flurry of memorial threads and haven't been on the site as much. I'm a lot farther down the road than many JWNers. Too many years since I cared about what the wtbts is doing, eh?
I hope all is well with you!
My experience of Christians and Muslims (in Britain anyway) is that very few of them actually put any serious effort into trying to convert anyone.
I just thought of a good comeback to my own statement -- but I'll leave it up to others to come up with it! That's the problem with seeing all sides of an argument -- I can argue the other side's position if I feel like it. (But in the end I'm convinced by evidence, not rhetoric.)
Is the comeback that the 21st century's best known evangelist is probably the atheist Richard Dawkins?
Some atheists do want to convert people too, Ithink many ex christians go through an evangelical atheist stage.
It is ironically human evolution, xenephobia has us all wanting to be in the same tribe, all safely doing, thinking and acting in the same way.
Human behaviour is NO guidance on truth or even what is arguably right or wrong. All we have is evidence.
I truly believe the one and only difference between atheists and believers is which side of the fence they fall on....
Comfort or Evidence
Anyone saying they have both is lying.
