I'm not just saying he didn't understand Christian apologetics, I'm also saying that he didn't even understand Atheist apologetics.
When a man goes to rob a bank the first thing he does is justify it to himself, he says, "The bank has plenty of money" or "The system has treated me unfairly". When the 13 year old boy wants to do something shabby he makes a similar excuse, and in this case it just involves him convincing himself that the words of the Bible are just a fairy tale.
To suggest the only reason a teenager would lose faith in God is because he wants to sin is asinine. In fact, if you stopped believing in God because you don't want to suffer the consequences, then all your'e doing is moving into a state of denial since this requires belief to do in the first place - hence, not really an atheist.
This is not such a hard thing when the media is constantly affirming man's sin, mocking God, and stating that man is nothing more than an animal.
Your argument is not only presumptuous and illogical, but it's self-contradicting.
The world is putting a constant force on people to push them away from God, all you have to do to believe the lie is stop fighting against the current.
If you want to argue everyone is falling for these lies, choosing to believe in them because they've been convinced these "lies" are the truth, then that's a fair statement to make. But you can't argue this without contradicting yourself.
And nobody fears death these days.
Believing there is no God means you get to do whatever you want to do.
Second of all, people don't stop believing in God because they want to avoid going to hell. That's stupid. You have to be a total moron to think in such a way. The fact you believe this is the reason people become atheists just makes you sound thick.
If I believe I will burn in hell for my sins, why in the world would I think this problem would cease to exist if I simply "choose" not to believe in it? THAT'S STUPID. ATHEIST'S DON'T THINK LIKE THIS.
I can respect the belief of a Muslim, or a Jew, but not the Atheist. I've yet to meet an Atheist that believes in the moral law of God, but disbelieves in God himself based on evidence.
The Atheist's idea of morality, if he has one at all, is always so far from compatible with God's that it's no wonder he doesn't want to believe.
The belief that there is life on other planets, for example, does not come in contact with a persons every day life because it does not come in contact with his morality; he is free to believe or disbelieve it entirely based on the evidence. But the question of God is not so simple, because one set of conclusions leads to a radically different life, and so we cannot assume that people are going to be completely rational in their reasoning.
Atheists don't believe in God. So all sins stemming solely from the argument, "because God said so" aren't wrong in most atheist's eyes. However, sins that have to do with harming others or other people's property are also considered wrong to atheists, because atheists tend to believe we should not screw our neighbors.
There are many Christian's that try to follow God's law and keep on failing but continue to try. If one day one of them wanders away because he decides its too hard and that he just wants to indulge in sin he will no doubt say something like, "I just realized that the whole thing wasn't true one day and decided to stop believing, and so now I'm an Atheist".
Personally speaking, I didn't become an atheist because I wanted to sin. In fact, I didn't even want to stop believing in God when I realized I was an atheist! I stopped believing in God because deep down, I genuinely didn't believe he was real. The reason I allowed myself to stop believing is because if I continued to "believe" in God, then I would have been living in a state of denial - because deep down I would have thought him unreal.
And of course this will be followed with the belief that X is okay to do, and Y is okay to do, and Z is okay to do, etc..
What scares me is the fact that your belief in God might be the only reason you don't harm others! Now THAT'S scary.
[video=youtube;8oa_3HC8vdQ]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8oa_3HC8vdQ[/video]
If you wish to talk about what me, Biologist, or any other atheist believes - instead of making assumption, why don't you ask us what we believe?
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