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To: Chainmail
What fascinates me is that atheists, instead of quietly going about their business, feel the need to evangelize their faith.

Why?

Unlike, say Christians or even Muslims, there is no God commanding that they spread the Good News. So what is their motive?

Could it be “Satan”? Just curious.

24 posted on 12/12/2011 1:36:50 PM PST by chesley (Eat what you want, and die like a man. Never trust anyone who hasn't been punched in the face)
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To: chesley
I'm not a psychologist but my best guess is that they are hoping that someone will finally convince them that there is more to life. Or maybe you're right - the devil's whispering in their ears.

A while ago I was assigned to a remote UN post with Soviet officers alongside us Americans. Some of them thought it'd be fun to try to convince us how atheism was all there was. I would wait until we were one-on-one in our outpost and work through the math with them on the probablity of a self-sustaining cell occurring on its own with the ability to ingest, digest, process, excrete, and replicate itself using 30,000 code elements within its DNA chain. Every one of them - all diehard communists - conceded that the odds were beyond astronomical. Some of those Sovs very discretely asked me to arrange for their baptism and I got it done.

25 posted on 12/12/2011 1:55:20 PM PST by Chainmail
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To: chesley
I'm not a psychologist but my best guess is that they are hoping that someone will finally convince them that there is more to life. Or maybe you're right - the devil's whispering in their ears.

A while ago I was assigned to a remote UN post with Soviet officers alongside us Americans. Some of them thought it'd be fun to try to convince us how atheism was all there was. I would wait until we were one-on-one in our outpost and work through the math with them on the probablity of a self-sustaining cell occurring on its own with the ability to ingest, digest, process, excrete, and replicate itself using 30,000 code elements within its DNA chain. Every one of them - all diehard communists - conceded that the odds were beyond astronomical. Some of those Sovs very discretely asked me to arrange for their baptism and I got it done.

26 posted on 12/12/2011 1:55:38 PM PST by Chainmail
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To: chesley

Lucifer thought he was superior to God too. The superiority complex of atheists come from confusion. They confuse folk tales/fairy tales, Hans Christian Anderson, The Brothers Grim with the Bible, with God, faith, miracles and Jesus. They confuse magic with miracles. And they don’t understand that coincidences are really answers to somebody else’s prayers.


38 posted on 12/12/2011 3:12:10 PM PST by This I Wonder32460
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