Introducing Boris

[Michael_Okoko]

@Eddie

@Boris_Badenoff

It’s no secret that most Christians are terrified of atheists and atheism.

I’m not. I find most of the arguments of atheists stale, repetitive, and boring, not threatening at all.

That’s how atheists view the arguments of Christian scholars too.

Personally, I find arguments for religion unimpressive. As long as we have no means of telling which or whose God is true or whether it exists, every religious person is simply blowing steam.

@Eddie

Conversely, it’s no secret that a good number of atheists, especially those who most involve themselves in public discussions (e.g., on sites like this) are terrified by Christianity. If they weren’t terrified, if they regarded it as simply a bunch of silly beliefs on the level of belief in horoscopes or palmistry or the Loch Ness Monster, they would simply disregard it.

Nothing stops atheists from regarding Christian beliefs as silly and talking about it. In addition, it is pretty hard not to talk about Christianity when Christians keep trying to get their religion in the face of atheists. Jesus told you, yes you Eddie, to go spread the Gospel, so how would atheists ignore your belief when you do exactly that to them?

@Eddie

You don’t see astronomy websites where professors of astronomy and astrophysics constantly attack believers in astrology, but on just about every origins website, you see professors and lab technicians in biology and biochemistry (and sometimes other fields such as psychiatry) attack Christianity and the Bible with great vehemence, as if it is a dangerous threat to their view of the world that must be shouted down or repelled

I think someone needs to review why there is a forum on PS.

@Eddie

Why the constant anxiety over Christian claims, if Christianity is so obviously wrong? Why not treat it like beliefs in the Abominable Snowman or in the aliens who supposedly built the Pyramids? Why not smile at it contemptuously, rather than rage against it?

Because Jesus said you should get it in the face of atheists and agnostics.

@Eddie

But many atheists are very afraid of the possibility that God might be real.

Which of the Gods, Amadioha my tribe’s God of thunder, Sango the Yoruba equivalent, Yahweh, Jesus?

@Eddie

One of my favorite atheists is the philosopher Thomas Nagel, who admits that he doesn’t want a theistic world view to be true

This makes no sense considering the vast number of worlds we would need to accommodate all the various forms of theism today.

@Eddie

If only all atheists had that kind of self-critical analytical ability, and could make such admissions, instead of pretending that they are motive-free, “purely objective” thinkers whose views are based entirely on evidence and argument and are not influenced by emotional considerations in any way.

Atheism is a lack of belief and it is a pretty reasonable position to hold against the bewildering mass of disparate religions and sub-religions.