tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1038763738803791808.post7175379228811960055..comments2023-10-26T08:58:30.552-05:00Comments on ClosetAtheist: When god commits an epic failHarryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10434155256347020690noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1038763738803791808.post-33942446772884192152011-05-30T10:30:28.902-05:002011-05-30T10:30:28.902-05:00Sorry, I couldn't wait any longer and I didn&#...Sorry, I couldn't wait any longer and I didn't think you would care...honestly. I've got to reach 100 posts!!!Harryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10434155256347020690noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1038763738803791808.post-3953949364488642832011-05-29T20:30:41.830-05:002011-05-29T20:30:41.830-05:00Awesome! I was out of town yesterday, or I would h...Awesome! I was out of town yesterday, or I would have responded sooner. I see you've already posted something -- hurray!Rebeccahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09456794273824517628noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1038763738803791808.post-11217893149704589892011-05-28T11:26:11.979-05:002011-05-28T11:26:11.979-05:00If you don't mind, I want to make my next post...If you don't mind, I want to make my next post a q and a between the two of us!Harryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10434155256347020690noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1038763738803791808.post-23097254900496682882011-05-27T21:58:24.519-05:002011-05-27T21:58:24.519-05:00I. Love. Your. Posts! :-)
Two comments/questions...I. Love. Your. Posts! :-)<br /><br />Two comments/questions:<br /><br />1. I’m so very sorry to hear about your brother-in-laws struggles (they sound awful!), although I’m glad he’s edging closer to the “truth.” Still… I’m surprised… he never noticed, in his whole life as a Christian, that “God” is cruel/evil/indiscriminate? It took such <i>personal</i> tragedies to make him start questioning Christianity? Natural disasters, suffering children, other Christians’ difficulties, evil, torture, famine, rape, cruelty to animals – none of that ever made him question his faith or “God’s goodness” before? It just kind of baffles me, but I guess that’s the Christian brainwashing part. <br /><br />2. As a lifelong atheist, someone who’s never had to deconvert or “give up Christianity,” I’m curious – what is so scary about giving up Christianity? Why is it so hard? (Maybe this should be a whole future post in itself!) Is it just the death part? (I don’t fully understand that, either – the millennia before I was born didn’t bother me; the “not thereness” when I’m asleep isn’t bad; I expect the “nothingness” after I’m dead to be fine, too. It doesn’t seem that scary to me.) So: Christians have to give up the idea of immortality… what else? You talked about the “emptiness.” Is this something that I, as an atheist, just can’t understand? Why do Christians hold onto the fantasy so desperately? I’d love as many things Christians are scared of (or whatever they are, whatever reasons they have for not seeing/believing “the truth”) as you can give. (There might be a poem brewing; call this my Market Research.) ;-) <br /><br />RebeccaRebeccahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09456794273824517628noreply@blogger.com