ABeautifulMind
Greenlighter
I just got finished reading that "Smug Athiest" thread, and while I'm now sitting here with a headache, it got me thinking about something I've found myself pondering before. Why is it that so many Christians, (the majority, in my experience) immediately attack non-thiests for their beliefs, or lack thereof? I'm somewhere between Athiest and Agnostic, although I was raised Catholic for 16 years. I honestly do not care what anyone believes in. I don't care. The shits? They're not given. Nowhere, are there any shits of mine to be found. If you make the choice; or are born into it, to believe in a God/s, then who am I, or anyone for that matter, to tell you that you're wrong? I will never judge an individual just because they believe there is an invisible, omnipotent, supreme creator that lives in the sky. Do I share that belief? Hell no. But if it gives you something to hold onto, then that's wonderful. All I care about is that you're a good human being, who doesn't wrong others. That's literally all that matters - whether or not you are a genuinely good person. NOW, here's where Christians bother me. It seems like 80+% of Christians who learn about my lack of belief, immediately jump to telling me that I'm wrong - HOW I'm wrong, and why I should turn to God before it's too late. I'm accused of being some "faithless sinner" who needs to find Jesus. They'll drone on, in such absurd blind certainty, about this God, and how he/she is real, and all the substantial "evidence" directly pointing to this God, and how ludicrous of a notion it is that one could ever reject the invisible man in the sky. Athiests are vilified and attacked for making a choice, as equally viable as the choice Christians make. If you want to be so good and accepting of others, the way the bibles says your God wants us to be, then I feel like you're doing him/her a tremendous disservice by judging people for being individuals and making choices of their own. I feel like that's part of the hypocrisy of Christianity. Be good to everyone and believe in God, or you'll go to hell. But don't be good to the Athiests and the gays, and the shrimp eaters, and the masturbaters, and do everything you can to convert them to the same blind faith that you hold in such high regard. Just think about that logic for a second. I'm not attacking Christians here, I'm really not, I promise. I have a few Christian friends who don't preach to me, and accept me for who I am and what I believe. But I encounter far more like the ones I have mentioned above, (including my mother, who I live with - you can imagine the tension). I don't know. I never pick fights, or get into theological debates with Christians, because I accept you know matter what you believe. But if you're going to vilify and and lecture us Athiests about how wrong you think we are, then maybe you should take a moment to stop and think to yourself, "Which one of us would God judge right now for our behavior towards the other?".