I find it interesting that atheists spend the time trying to convince those around them that a God they don't believe in doesn't exist
Oh, hey, you accept evolution? Awesome! Because there's absolutely no reason you would try to convince people a theory is wrong when you believe the theory is wrong! Why waste your time? (Do you understand how flawed your assertion is?)
....Why do atheists feel so threatened and have to spend the time to do the above bolded if in their mind God does not exist?
We should base our lives off of what we can logically conclude. If belief in God is illogical, then we should want ourselves and other people to take the more logical route. This is why those of us who feel belief in gods is unjustified and illogical do what we can to try and reveal the fallacies of religious apologetic. And I'm sure you feel the opposite is true and that atheism is illogical, and it would be asinine for me to say, "If you believe God is real, why waste time talking about atheism?" Well, if you believe God is real and that other people are wrong not to believe in him, that's all the MORE reason to talk about atheism!
If I believed something doesn't exist I will not waste my time on it.....!
If it effected you or your loved ones, yes you would. What if a large number of people in America began to worship aliens, claiming them to be our overlords and creators? What if these people became the majority in America and they decided they would only vote for politicians who worshiped these unseen alien overlords? What if these people felt it was offensive for people to have more than 2 children because it might threaten the alien overlords so they wanted to force men into surgery preventing them from having a 3rd child? What if these people spent millions of dollars on UFO landing pads?
Would you not stand up and say, "There's no evidence that aliens created us, that they know of us, or that they even exist! Stop wasting you time, energy, and money on such a flawed belief! Stop living in fear of these creatures?" Would you honestly not stand up against this new belief? And if you personally didn't, would you feel those who did challenge this flawed belief were being illogical?
Most importantly, what if your Christian friends began to talk about how these aliens weren't real and an alien worshiper claimed "If you don't believe in alien overlords, why do you spend so much time talking about how alien overlords aren't real?"
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I'm not guessing. I know for a fact there is a God.
Your belief in God isn't based on Pascal's wager, great. But you just said:
Kudos, but what if I'm right and you are wrong. If I'm wrong so what we just die and go to oblivion, but what if I am right?
You're suggesting that it's logical to believe in God just in case it's possible we're wrong.
Even though you don't personally base your beliefs on Pascal's wager, you're still condoning such flawed reasoning.
Because they are teetering and searching. They know that the stuff they are doing don't work nor make since and they are fighting tooth and nail to bow to a God when they are their own God.
Wrong.
You believe in God because you want an excuse to beat children! (Of course you don't, but if you're going to make stuff up about us atheists, I'm going to do the same to you. So let's show each other some respect and not make stuff up.)
You're a good example of a reason as to why I'm here. I'm not here because I think God is real and I want to know him, one reason I'm here (out of a small number) is because I feel it's important to dispel common misconceptions people have about atheists such as the one you spewed.