Why do atheist try to convert Christians

I think some people want more than to think they are an insignificant speck on an insignificant rock on the outer edge of an unremarkable galaxy in an unimaginably large universe, with probably no freewill, no self, no meaning except what they makeup for themselves, relatively short lives etc…etc… So they believe in a fantasy where this isn’t the case.

I think some people want more than to think they are an insignificant speck on an insignificant rock on the outer edge of an unremarkable galaxy in an unimaginably large universe,

That is exactly what it is. They don't want to face reality so they chose to believe in unsupportable stuff to make them feel better about reality. It is a type of delusion but no amount of pointing that out will do anything to get them to see it.

Someone believes differently than you do so of course, they am the delusional ones. Isn't that pretty intolerant?

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I think some people want more than to think they are an insignificant speck on an insignificant rock on the outer edge of an unremarkable galaxy in an unimaginably large universe, with probably no freewill, no self, no meaning except what they makeup for themselves, relatively short lives etc…etc… So they believe in a fantasy where this isn’t the case.

That is exactly what it is. They don't want to face reality so they chose to believe in unsupportable stuff to make them feel better about reality. It is a type of delusion but no amount of pointing that out will do anything to get them to see it.

it is a pretty big burden knowing that you're going to die some day. Some people avoid thinking about it by focusing their minds on the rat race, hobbies, movies, fantasies, etc, etc, and some flee to religion

Believers who don't hurt anybody have the same right to absorb themselves in their favorite escapism as we do ours. It's only when they start ******* with nonbelievers that they cross the line.

Someone believes differently than you do so of course, they am the delusional ones. Isn't that pretty intolerant?

Selective tolerance. How convenient.

I doubt you would so blithely accept that someone who believes that homosexual congress, which cannot possibly result in procreation, is unnatural; isn't intolerant.

up to the point where they start calling homosexuals swear words, beating them up, or even lynching them. That's what intolerance is, and I don't advocate it against any believer in god. Jews, Muslims, Christians---they all have a right to delude themselves.

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it is a pretty big burden knowing that you're going to die some day. Some people avoid thinking about it by focusing their minds on the rat race, hobbies, movies, fantasies, etc, etc, and some flee to religion

Why is the idea of being in the state of non-being by reason of death any difference from the billions of years before we were born and also in a state of non-being?

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Believers who don't hurt anybody have the same right to absorb themselves in their favorite escapism as we do ours. It's only when they start ******* with nonbelievers that they cross the line.

A society with a large percent of it total population holding irrational beliefs are going to affect all of us.

All the anti-gay laws on the books for most of the history of the US was driven by bible believing Christians for example.

The ongoing attempts to teach nonsense in our public schools as science are driven by bible believing Christians.

The attempts to rewrite history and teach it in the public schools as facts are driven by the same groups.

On and on in a millions of small ways and large ways the whole society paid a price for having a large percent of true believers in it.

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I think some people want more than to think they are an insignificant speck on an insignificant rock on the outer edge of an unremarkable galaxy in an unimaginably large universe,

Strange from a very early age in laying in a hammock outside under a heaven full of stars I was delighted in the idea of a vast and almost never ending universe.

The idea that the small little planet I happen to be living on was anything out of the ordinary or that the human race did not happen to share the universe with countless others kinds of people never never appeal to me.

Looking at the stars I kept wondering how many other eyes on other planets around others suns were looking back at me.

A god who not only created the universe but also worry if humans obey his commands and worship him in the proper manner and from time to time interfere with human lives never made any kind of sense to me.

igm, you do realize, of course, that you ARE that unimaginably large universe?

When YOU decide I am deluded because yout think you are right and I am wrong then you have become intolerant. I have never attacked any homosexual btw.

RELIGION, n.
A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.

"What is your religion my son?" inquired the Archbishop of Rheims.

"Pardon, monseigneur," replied Rochebriant; "I am ashamed of it."

"Then why do you not become an atheist?"

"Impossible! I should be ashamed of atheism."

"In that case, monsieur, you should join the Protestants."