Many Atheists Clearly Hate God. Why Is This?

@CrystalSkull I suppose it’s a matter of perspective. I worked with troubled students for over thirty years, the ones that society would rather forget.
That was my career, my job, my life.
In the case of this young mother, she said to me later that I understood her better than her own mother,, that yes she was I mother, but at times she had to be a fifteen year old girl. Someone has to pick up the pieces.

I have no Christian ethics, and don’t know what they are.



In terms of abortion, I feel there are circumstances that termination should occur. A rape, the health of the mother. A person in a mental hospital become pregnant by another parent, not the husband, an extreme example. But abortion is not a form of contraception. Life is precious. Yours is, so were the troubled disaffected people I worked with.

@sunriselover I too worked with youth for many years. I still do. And I can tell you that girls are affected by unwanted pregnancies for life way more than unwanted abortions. Their education is taken away from them by having a child young, economic resources and health are affected. I didn’t say a word about abortion as a form of contraception. Don’t know where you got that from. Access to reproductive health education and autonomy over their own bodies (for everyone not just women) is key to improving this across the world. I am glad you were able to help this woman, not everyone has someone to help them.

@CrystalSkull

I’m glad you are working in this area too.
It is challenging, frustrating ..

As for boys, they run away from their responsibilities. But not all. And some even pick up the pieces.

@ElwoodBlues Isn’t CS Lewis dead? He cannot defend his position.

@sunriselover Yes, he died way back in 1963, on the very day President Kennedy was shot (along with Aldous Huxley).

@ElwoodBlues But that's just it; many atheists (I have to emphasise "many", because I know how they'll react if I don't) will react viciously to some theist simply proclaiming that they believe in God, whether that's in real life or online (although it happens far more often online). It is a grossly disproportionate reaction to something that is basically innocuous; a belief. They respond with anger and insults, mislead with straw-man arguments, and generally carry on like a douchebag.
No one has ever behaved this way when someone has proclaimed their belief, or obsession with, any fictional characters that I know of; it just doesn't happen.
It must be the cognitive dissonance they no doubt struggle with. It must be HELL to think that life is meaningless, there's no free will, that we're nothing more than complex chemistry and electricity, and that when we die that's it.

@Torsten Okay. How do we do that? I ask because where I live, I haven't seen a "pushy Christian" in literally years. They just don't seem to be around much. Maybe it was because of the coronavirus, when so many had to stay indoors for so long.

@FormerAtheist seriously? so many Christians cant help themselves and try forcing their beliefs on everyone. Even happens on this site all the time

@Torsten Yes, [b]seriously![/b] I don't even get the Jehovah's Witnesses knocking on my door, and I used to really like that because I'd get the chance to debate theology with them.

@jshm2 The most idiotic thing you’ve said yet. 🙄

@jshm2 what are you smoking?

@AlchemyFox He forgave a prostitute knowing that men usually are at the root of why they do that. He turned water into wine at a wedding when they ran out. He turned a few loaves of bread and fishes into enough to feed a huge crowd of people who came to listen to him ,and had baskets of it leftover after everyone had their fill. He wasn’t into materialism and greed, he declared that offspring no longer have to carry the burden of guilt for whatever their ancestors did up to 7 generations back, he opposed the burdensome legalism of the day and simplified the Law by saying number one love God with all your heart, mind and soul and prove it by the way you treat others (feed the hungry, clothe the naked and heal the sick instead of pouring money over to the Pharisees to hoard for themselves) he took up for abused children saying it would be better if the abusers who created a stumbling block for those children to be hung by a rope with a grindstone around their necks and thrown into the sea. Everything was cool that Jesus did in my book. He created a paradigm shift by getting people who followed him to change their way of thinking of things both spiritual and every day life.