ATHIESTS IN ASIA LIVE with no belief system

Mr. Bing, not everyone in this world has health care or has others rushing to their side to take care of them. If it were not for christian missionaries the suffering would be so much greater in so many other areas of the world. Please get the focus off of your idealistic vision, and consider how many children will be able to go to school for the first time, or have their medical needs provided for. You really need to stop putting cultures ahead of childs life. We are living in a changing world, and the needs of people are great. And Christians are making life so much better for so many, I'm sorry if Christians donot fit into your political correctness, but we are needed, and we will not stop helping the needy.

Then Mr.Campbell, help the needy for their own sakes, and for the sake of doing good. Not with the intent to convert them. That is unseemly.

Indeed, there is also a school of thought that many of the african nations have become so dependant on the aid that is given, they have lost the will to fend for themselves. We seem intent on giving aid at every opportunity. Allow ing their leaders to stay in power.

Some believe, and I am coming around to the idea, that we should stop the aid, cancel all their debts and allow them to devolp and fend for themselves. This way any of the corupt governments (most are) will be overthrown and true democracy installed. Now there will be alot of bloodshed and death. But if you think about it up until 150 years ago most of africans were living in huts, they had no time to develop there own sense of being. The British basically installed themselves as the rulers and used their own laws to govern the people, when they left it was a free-for-all and decended into where they are now, very similar to when the Romans left Britain and we had the 'Dark Ages'.

My point is the fact the church has aided these nations to the point where they have been paralised into a state of dependacy that can only be broken if it is stopped. They will then have to fend for themselves and be able to grow and develop.

Apologies for going off topic, I just wanted to make that point.

Also if the catholic church would allow the use of condoms the amount of people in africa with AIDS would reduce dramatically. A point which sickens me that a piece of rubber could save a life, yet thoe pope does not condone it,...Disgusting.

If those in Africa became Christians and followed the Scriptures, there would be no need for a piece of rubber, they would understand that sex is to be kept pure within the marriage, and sleeping around is not part of Gods plan. And that is made plain in the Bible, it is because people ignored the Biblical warnings, that so many find themselves in trouble today.
And the reason Christians tell people about Christ is not only to help them in this life, but to prepare them for the life to come. It is not the Christian church that has paralised the African people, it is all to often their corrupt governments.

And the reason Christians tell people about Christ is not only to help them in this life, but to prepare them for the life to come. It is not the Christian church that has paralised the African people, it is all to often their corrupt governments.

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ATHIESTS IN ASIA LIVE with no belief system”

Adam

This sentence seems strange. If you’re an atheist, than by definition you have no religious belief system. If you’re an atheist who happens to live in Asia, than you still… by definition… have no religious belief system.

In fact not believing in a Divine force is very niave and based on absolutely not one shred of scientific evidence.

Nope, don't agree with you, since Aetheist is always, as a distinguishing badge of honor, trying to shove their theory down the throat of anyone who will listen, so the burden of proof is on them, and since there is no proof...so the certainty is only in what they believe. What they believe is in their own opinion.

From a scientific perspective, Sir Issaac Newton, one of the world's greatest thinkers, came to the conclusion their is a God. Science is now finally accepting the thinking that was scoffed at and ridiculed in the earlier centuries, the ability to measure energy, to understand that everything is moving and everything is energy, and that energy is gathered by humans through each other when they are not connected to the abundant energy of the universe, the divine.
In fact not believing in a Divine force is very niave and based on absolutely not one shred of scientific evidence.

“Nope, don't agree with you, since Aetheist is always, as a distinguishing badge of honor, trying to shove their theory down the throat of anyone who will listen, so the burden of proof is on them”

So the reason you think the burden of proof is on atheists is because you have a negative generalization of atheists? I’m sorry; that’s not a valid point. Even if it WERE true that atheists are more vocal about their disbelief than monotheists are about their belief, the burden of proof doesn’t rest on which side is more pushy. Lets say you’re reading some articles in a peer reviewed journal on some controversial issue and two experts are arguing with each other. You wouldn’t find one of them saying “the burden of proof rests on you because you’re pushier”.

You also wouldn’t find them attacking the character of their opponents and trying to pass that off as an argument (ie: my opponents are trying to shove their theory down the throat of anyone who will listen). There are many atheists who believe that everyone should be atheists. There are many religious ppl who believe that everyone should be religious. Attempting to pass off a negative generalization of your opposing group as an argument shows that you aren’t interested in a thoughtful discussion.

“and since there is no proof...so the certainty is only in what they believe. What they believe is in their own opinion…. In fact not believing in a Divine force is very niave and based on absolutely not one shred of scientific evidence.”

These arguments can be flip flopped- [Since there’s no proof, the certainty of monotheists is only in what they believe. What they believe is their own opinion, and is based on absolutely not one shred of scientific evidence.]

These arguments depend on the burden of proof being on the atheists, and your argument that the burden of proof is on the atheists is that atheists are pushy.

Atheists likethe one in the government of China who make a hobby of persecuting religions?

No compassion in the hundreds of Catholic charities in America helping people around the world? If you say so.

Nope, don't agree with you, since Aetheist is always, as a distinguishing badge of honor, trying to shove their theory down the throat of anyone who will listen, so the burden of proof is on them, and since there is no proof...so the certainty is only in what they believe. What they believe is in their own opinion.

Atheists likethe one in the government of China who make a hobby of persecuting religions? No compassion in the hundreds of Catholic charities in America helping people around the world? If you say so.