I wrote yesterday about Zite, your personalized magazine app. I keep reading articles by atheists and for the most part, they're pretty freaking judgmental. Theists base their beliefs on emotion whereas atheists base their beliefs on cold, hard facts. Theists are wrong and atheists are right.
There was even an article that popped up listing the various crucifixion and resurrection accounts in the gospels and underlining their inconsistencies so that atheists would have them "handy" when they encountered believers Easter weekend. Wha....?
Maybe things in the States are a little more hardcore than here in Canada, but I don't prepare myself for a chance meeting with an atheist and I have yet to run into an atheist who insisted on telling me why my beliefs are wrong.
These articles make me absurdly uncomfortable. Just stop reading them, you think. That's what I thought too and I was just about to block any articles about atheism when I paused and wondered if it was really the right thing to do.
Maybe it's better to find out what atheists are saying. What are their arguments? What would my response be? "Just have faith" is weak if you've never had a conversion experience, if you've never had an encounter with God.
Understand me. I don't want to "convert" anyone. I just don't like the idea of someone assuming I haven't asked the hard questions or delved deep into theology.
Doesn't it occur to them that these questions have been asked before (since the beginning of time)? That theology is faith and reason? That we're not all homophobes and anti-feminist?
So what do you think? Keep living my journey and ignore the naysayers or learn more about what their beef is?
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