Can it be time to retire this facile Christian argument: You don't believe in god because you don't WANT to believe! [Spirituality & Religion]
Think about that for like [i]A[/i] second.
Do you love you mother and father? Grandprents? Husband, wife? Yeah, me too. Can you bear the idea of never seeing them again? Yeah, me neither. So if i thought i would get to see them again after we die, why wouldn't you [i]want[/i] to believe that? I certainly would.
So can we dispense with this puerile response to why atheists don't believe?
It's not logical, but if it makes someones life easier to believe, then it's no business of mine. If they respect my not believing I'll respect their believing.
I think it's just another excuse that Christians make to each other to help them feel better about what they see as millions of people doomed to burn in hell. At least they can tell themselves that we chose that doom.
But that's completely true. The existence of God is a self-fulfilling prophecy. God exists for those who choose to believe, and doesn't exist for those who choose not to. Since believers cannot prove God's existence to non-believers and vice versa, recognizing it as a self-fulfilling prophecy is the only way to reconcile the two extremes.
Oh i get ya. Yeah for sure. But i'm specifically addressing the often repeated justification made by Christians that atheists just don't [i]want[/i] to believe.
