What is it like to be an atheist?

[Mary Etheldreda]

As I came across a helpful article showing me how to persuade an atheist to become a Christian, I read the preparation step called, "Imagine how they feel about their beliefs." Well, that got me to thinking, what DO atheists believe? What is it like to be in the head of an atheist? Is there any logical thought at all or is it pure animal instinct? Does one consider things like pleasure and pain or is an atheist simply driven to eat, sleep, and have sex with the closest hole that fits a peg (or peg that fits a hole, as it were)? I'm sincerely curious and wonder how can we help you overcome these base animal instincts to be saved from an eternity of torment that is due simply for the crime of having been born human and therefor depraved.

I look forward to your replies.

[Billy Bob Jenkins]

Re: What is it like to be an atheist?

Remember when you were an infant? Perhaps not, but you can imagine. Gawking at everything in complete ignorance, not knowing the first thing about the God or His Word. We are all born into this world atheists. That is why children must burn in accordance with John 3:18, which says that non-believers (e.g. small children) are doomed to Hell.

[Bobby-Joe]

Re: What is it like to be an atheist?

Remember when you were an infant? Perhaps not, but you can imagine. Gawking at everything in complete ignorance, not knowing the first thing about the God or His Word. We are all born into this world atheists. That is why children must burn in accordance with John 3:18, which says that non-believers (e.g. small children) are doomed to Hell.

That, and the urge to stick everything up your butt. That is how Atheist work.

[Billy Bob Jenkins]

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That, and the urge to stick everything up your butt. That is how Atheist work.

Brother, from the way atheists treat eachother's asses, I am not sure if they love anus, or hate it. They destroy everything they touch.

[Rev. M. Rodimer]

Re: What is it like to be an atheist?

I imagine it's the ultimate in emptiness.

Just think, Sister. An atheist believes that after death, he will cease to exist. Not only that, but everyone he ever knows, and any difference he makes in the world, will also pass away.

The atheist even believes that eventually the sun will swell up and destroy the Earth!

So really, nothing an atheist does can possibly matter outside of a very limited scope. The most famous person today will be forgotten in the blink of a cosmic eye. So, they may as well seek out reward and avoid punishment, yet they insist on "creating meaning in life" and helping others in silly ways, like providing food without Gospel, or designing cities (usually without churches but with all sorts of pleasant public spaces), or giving free legal or medical help to the poor! Some even become social workers, living in poverty and trying to help others fix their broken families. This is a sad, sorry attempt to fill the God-shaped void.

Compare this to the Christian. I know, for example, that as long as I obey God, I get to spend all of eternity praising Him for His perfection, living in a vast city with streets of gold! What a wondrous reward! And even more, He promises to bless me in this life as well. And bless me He has.

And I also know that there is only one important way to make a difference, by helping others find Jesus and be Saved too. Any failures, either in my own obedience or in my witness to others, will lead to either me or the person I've failed to help being burned alive for all eternity in God's Lake of Fire. What a horrible punishment, and one that never ends!

As you can see, the Christian is motivated by selflessness and a love of God and man, a desire to exercise the Will of God. The depraved atheist is motivated solely by the hedonistic, reward-or-punishment that we see in lower animals.

[Mistress Cookie]

Re: What is it like to be an atheist?

I read the preparation step called, "Imagine how they feel about their beliefs." Well, that got me to thinking, what DO atheists believe?

Gee, that's a toughie! The Atheistics are mentally ill, and who knows how the diseased brain works? We do know the disease progresses with time, though. Like alcoholism.

The time they are most vulnerable to conversion is just before and after sleeping. That's because they know in their hearts that their willful obstinance is sinful, and they do envy the peace that True Christians™ have. So you can be sure their last thought before crying themselves to sleep each night is "Oh God, give me the strength to cast my prideful Atheism aside!"

Then in the morning, they wake up with their swollen eyes and think "Oh God! Another doomed day as a worthless Atheist!"

Once they begin their drug using etc. for the day, the desire to change dims, though. So try to get them either really late or really early.

[handmaiden]

Re: What is it like to be an atheist?

I think that being an atheist must be very confusing and frightening. Who can they pray to when they need divine guidance?



Sadly Yours,

Handmaiden

[H. Montague Worthington]

Re: What is it like to be an atheist?

Average day of an atheist:

9:22 a.m. Wake up feeling terrible, hungover from the previous night.
9:45 a.m. Stumble over empty vodka bottles on the way to the bathroom.
10:00 a.m. Stare into the mirror thinking about your sad, pointless life and your inevitable date with Satan.
10:05 a.m. Shave.
10:16 a.m. Wonder where your life went wrong-- "Oh yeah, that's right--- avoiding church and rebuking Almighty God is how I became a hopless wretch," you say to yourself.
11:05 a.m. Porn on computer.
1:36 p.m. Mailman arrives with Government handout check.
3:31 p.m. Call your drug dealer for more drugs to dull your pain.
4:02 p.m. Drug dealer arrives with illegal drug delivery and a complementary Obama campaign lapel pin.
4:22 p.m. Regular porn won't do it for you any more, so it's on to gay porn.
5:06 p.m. Call a guy offering sodomy for sale on Craigslist.
6:00 p.m. More drugs.
7:00 p.m. More porn.
8:33 p.m. Pledge allegiance to Obama.
9:10 p.m. Call another guy on Craigslist.
9:52 p.m. Drive to liquor store, guzzling liquor all the way home.
10:22 p.m. More drugs.
11:42 p.m. Pass out, drugged up and drunk on the floor of the bathroom.

[James Hutchins]

Re: What is it like to be an atheist?

I would think being an atheist must be a very cold way to be. Knowing you are all alone, being in the same room as others but being disconnected.
To never know what it is like to have Jesus embrace you, to have Him help you out, to be with you late at night when you are in bed, to have your back. Such horror! Although upon death, you do get tossed into a lake of simmering brimstone so I guess it evens out.

[Bob4God]

Re: What is it like to be an atheist?

Remember when you were an infant? Perhaps not, but you can imagine. Gawking at everything in complete ignorance, not knowing the first thing about the God or His Word. We are all born into this world atheists. That is why children must burn in accordance with John 3:18, which says that non-believers (e.g. small children) are doomed to Hell.

I believe that this is also a very telling point about the astoundingly low intelligence of atheists.

Whenever somebody tells me they are an atheist, I say, "babies are atheists, too. You must feel so smart..."

[Mistress Cookie]

Re: What is it like to be an atheist?

It would be easier to reach out to the prideful atheist if he wasn't so scary looking...

[Unfalsifiable]

Re: What is it like to be an atheist?

I imagine it's like waking up and having no milk for your cornflakes, every morning.

[Pastor Ezekiel]

Re: What is it like to be an atheist?

I imagine that the atheist must lead a very empty, unsatisfying life. They know no joy, nor can they find solace the way we True Christians(tm) do. They can't look at themselves in a mirror out of shame. They are friendless and addicted to the latest fad foods (tofu, organic dogmeat, etc). They worship science and yet are continually let down when their science gods can't heal the sick or raise the dead the way Jesus can. I imagine they spend most of their time masturbating, in a pathetic attempt to gain a few fleeting moments of relief from their daily torment.

And yet they cling to their ridiculous cult.

[Dr Laurence Niles]

Re: What is it like to be an atheist?

What's it like to be an atheist?

Pretty sore, I expect.

YIC

[mrquestion]

Re: What is it like to be an atheist?

I happen to be an atheist, and i can tell you honestly its fine.