JohnStOnge wrote:What I wonder is why atheists care. Seriously.
If you are an atheist, you believe in a situation in which everything is futile and pointless anyway. You are food for the worms. You live for an instant and die.
So why do they care what anybody believes? Even if the idea is to enjoy yourself as much as possible before you become worm food, what's the point? If you're an atheist you can still attempt to do that. There is no reason to convince other people to be atheists.
That's different that if you are, say, a Christian. If you are a Christian you believe in life after death and you believe that if you can convince others to be Christians you will save them.
If you're an atheist do you think you're going to "save" somebody by convincing them to enjoy themselves before they go into oblivion? Do you think it's "enjoyable" to contemplate the idea of the finality of death?
If atheists are right, nothing really matters anyway. Why some atheists think it's important to convince other people to be atheists is totally beyond me.
John,
It's odd for you to post such a jumbled mess of ideas in one post...
~Firstly Atheists are humans - and all humans have a built in desire to be understood - so they share their ideas just like EVERY HUMAN does. So the notion that Atheists shouldn't have any desire to discuss their feelings is poorly thought out.. all humans want to share their ideas (BTW: We're on a message board - just another example)
~Secondly the idea that because somebody doesn't believe in God then instantly nothing means anything anymore and all things cease to have value or purpose is very silly and poorly thought out... Evolution and the cycle of Life, Copernican Theory, Calculus, World History, Molecular Science.. all these things are fascinating and are loaded with Atheists - and somehow they have value and contain joy and discovery
~Thirdly I've never met an Atheist (and I've known plenty) who tried to convert me to Atheism - I've had many tell me what I believed was wrong and occasionally even stupid... but none have ever actively attempted a conversion of any kind... I can't say that about the Christians I've met
