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I Am A Christain And I Love Jesus

Yesterday I was told by an athiest (one of my parents) to "wake up" and started mocking me, and said that ALL Christains are judgemental. He proceded to call a guy at his work an i**** and spew hate, so that was hypocrisy because while I was listening calmly and speaking rationally, the athiest (who is also an alcoholoic)was spewing all the negativity and condemnation.
There is no reasoning with them. 🙁
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I'm sorry this happened to you. Unfortunately we as Christians and all religious people alike, live in a world where faith is ridiculed and the masses are exposed to atheistic ideals from a young age in every form of the media as well as schools too. If that's not brainwashing, I don't know what is.
Sharky86 · 36-40, M
@Solenya LOL good troll comment
introvertedaspie · 22-25, F
@Solenya Yeah and athiests like to call US brainwashed.. but honestly, you can't force some one to believe something, and vice versa
introvertedaspie · 22-25, F
@Sharky86 The funny thing is the "troll comment" if it was intended to be one, makes perfect sense 😂
@Sharky86 If you have an opinion on my comment, speak it or bugger off mate.
SW-User
@Solenya lol, you're crazy!
@SW-User Feel free to elaborate. I'm not averse to swapping opinions and discussing the subject if you'd like.
SW-User
@Solenya what atheist ideals for starters, make sure the Buddhists Taoists, Hindus and Jainists hear you!
@SW-User Perhaps the word "ideals" isn't correct for what I meant, english isn't my first language, it's just the closest translation I could think of off the top of my head.

I'm referring to atheist and darwinist beliefs assumed as fact and found in every form of media and even in schools. Unless you went to a specifically religious school, you were likely taught from a young age that humans evolving from primates is fact. Turn on any channel that deals with space and how things came to be, and the big bang theory is often the accepted "fact" of how things happened. Nature shows often refer to human evolution in some way, as fact, when the subject of animal evolution comes up.

Truth is, nobody truly knows jack about it, each belief system has their own reasons for believing they are correct and it's not right for any of them to shove those down peoples throats, nor label them "fact" when they don't have 100% proof of their claim. No belief system can claim that they are absolutely, beyond the shadow of a doubt correct, as none of us were there to see it happen. So if a religious person mounts the high horse about the situation and tells you that you're wrong, they are just an asshole. If an atheist does the same, they're an asshole. Bottom line, we're all human and humans are prone to being naive and arrogant about the things they believe to be true.

In conclusion, my comment was that ridiculing other belief systems, or calling your own beliefs fact, is arrogant, no matter which side of the spectrum it comes from. Religious government forcing beliefs on it's citizens, atheist beliefs spread throughout education to young, developing minds, it's all brainwashing to my logic.
introvertedaspie · 22-25, F
@Solenya Ahh so you are agnostic, am I correct?
@introvertedaspie Not at all. I'm Christian, I just don't go around shoving it down people's throats like many accuse us of. I'm tired of being labeled "the religious guy" rather than "the individual with the capacity and right to believe whatever the hell he wants" 🤷‍♂️ I've met and befriended some genuinely nice atheists and people with other beliefs. I don't get why this has to be one of the first things people divide on, and more often than not it's someone like in your story, from one or another belief system that's very adamant about their beliefs being right and everyone else being stupid. Thus the ridiculing.
SW-User
@Solenya The establish theory of evolution is fact, this as changed somewhat from Darwin's day, he made errors and we know much more about the world we live in today than he had access to. Science is the only known proven evidential method to understand the reality we exist in, it does not rely on belief without evidence. The big bang is not a fact it's the most widely accepted hypotheses for what we know, as we learn more this will change and is under rethink constantly. The consensous of Scientists, religious or not are clear on this.
introvertedaspie · 22-25, F
@Solenya Oh, I see. I agree 100%
@SW-User Yet the argument can be made that what scientists called "proven evidence" all those years ago has changed immensely up to today. Some of the greatest minds in history believed the earth to be flat, including in Galileo's time, before who's discoveries the sun was believe to revolve around the earth. Is it not arrogance then to assume that what you know now is 100% true, when in a century or more, many of those facts may well have been altered based on new discoveries? Science is not so much about understanding the reality we exist in, as it is about trying to explain it to the best of their knowledge and ability. Specifically in the case of how humans came to be, unless they were there when these things happened, the best they have is a calculated guess, based on what is known at the time.

I am not saying that evolution as a whole doesn't exist. I think that it's quite obvious in nature that it exists, to what extent that is the case, I do not know. The whole debate between theism and atheism is in the end about how humans came to be, and whether or not our existence was the result of evolution or a conscious creation at the will of a higher power. Also, whether there is anything more after death for humans. Those are the things that cannot be proven, until each of us faces eternity and finally knows. The way I see it, I'm either right or I'm wrong. If I'm right, great. If I'm wrong, then I'll likely just not exist anymore which is a win-win either way.