Hello everyone,
I am on this website in the hopes that perhaps I can be less ignorant of Christianity. But I do need help on a class assignment for college. I am supposed to do a "community Immersion project", and I hope that this will suffice for that. To me, discrimination based on religion is something that is very important, and is what I chose to do. If you could you leave a response with around five stereotypes/misconceptions that you believe atheists hold about Christians in general. I am also asking atheists on another website about stereotypes about atheists by Christians. I am hoping to share your results with them and their results with you. Like I said, you don't have to, but I would certainly appreciate this, since this is for one of my classes in college.
Thank you, and have a nice day!
Hello. Ive been talking to professed Atheists for a few decades now so heres my answer :
a. Stereotypes atheists typically have of Christians : 'They'll believe anything' / They believe in something equivalent to Santa Claus or the Easter Bunny / They think we all come from religious families who raised us up in the Religion and therefore we have become robotic and cant think for ourselves / They think we accept the Christian Faith on blind faith and The Bible because it has crinkly pages or because Someone told us its the truth / they think that Science discredits the Christian Faith / They think that Christians 'grovel' beneath a Creator they cant see or experience / They view Christians as whimpy and weak / They don't think Christians think logically or rationally . They think Christians are wasting their time and life by living upright and trying to be moral since 'there is no God' .
b. Misconceptions atheists typically have of the Christian Faith/Theism :
They think it isn't scientifically provable that a personal intelligent Theistic Creator is absolutely necessary for what we have as effects left over from creation / They think there are no world reknown Scientists who are Christians or Theists / They think that Cosmic Evolution , Abiogenesis, and Macro Evolution is science when it is pseudo science masquerading as real science / They laugh at a Christians Faith that he has yet don't want to talk about their faith that requires enormous faith that blind random Materials brought a personal Universe into existence from nothing and that Materials gave us our NON-material entities such as Mind, Will, Emotions, Love, Reason, Logic, and Abstract Thinking which is the epitomie of illogic / They think that God needs a Creator because God created the Universe / They think that Christians are less than intelligent , logical, and possess no ability to think for themselves / They think that an all loving God created Evil / they think that they can live as they like rejecting God and mocking him all their life without any moral accountability...yet they cant understand why a good God would send people to eternal hell / They claim they don't believe in God but they use his name virtually every day of their life and oftentimes in a personal way/ They think they are generally 'good' people who have no need for a Saviour or even to change any of their ways because they like whom they've become . They somehow think that if there is a moral Creator to whom they are responsible to in the final analysis, that they will fare pretty well because they've got enough good works on their list to cancel or cover the bad things they've done in life. In general, they resent Christians, churches, absolute moral laws to live by , a cross displayed, or prayers in public, etc....because it challenges the way they want to live and they are a reminder that they have a dark side to their personality ., the same that we all have. In specific, they look at genuine Christians who choose to live right and dislike that because it makes them feel insecure and it convicts their chosen less than moral lifestyles. They realize that most Christians know they are caught up in a charade of playing a professed 'atheist' when all along they know from the evidence of creation as well as intrinsically that it always takes a personal , intelligent, information Source for the personal, intelligent, information-based lifeforms that are on earth and particularly Human Beings .
Ive debated MANY professed Atheists face to face and on the Internet which is where I formulate my above opinions from. Also, I was a professed Atheist myself for some 10 adult years and used to run with the atheist Gang on a daily basis .
If you have any followup questions, feel free to ask me. Regards.
