Why Convert?

[Gangerolf]

What's LK13,5 and MAL1,3 supposed to mean

Atheists do stuff like burn down churches

I believe that's satanists

I think people shouldn't bother others with their religious "believes".

[Imran Siddiqui]

What's LK13,5 and MAL1,3 supposed to mean

I think they are Bible verses.

[Asher]

Exhibit B: http://apolyton.net/forums/search.ph...er&userid=5251

[Gangerolf]

so what ever it says in "mal 1:3", these ladies interpret as "God hates fags".

[lightblue]

Every so often one of these threads shows up. The word troll usually jumps to mind, but then I remember that not everyone has the benefit of good, secular education... Evolution is an accepted scientific fact, and is even accepted in principle by the Vatican. As for converting religious people, I don't do that. I just don't talk to people whose belief system radically clashes with mine. Your loss that's all I can say.

[MarkG]

I see Aetheists are often attempting to convert christians to evolution

since when
being christian = not accepting evolution????

[Vlad Antlerkov]

MarkG:

In the eyes of some, being Christian means that you accept that every word of the Bible is literally true. As a corollary of this view, Christians have to take the book of Genesis literally, i.e. they have to think it literally happened.

Most (but not enough) Christians do not hold this view.

[Boris Godunov]

I find it amusing that nearly all of these religious debate threads are started by religicists spoiling for a fight, posting inflammatory and accusatory things about atheists, evolution, etc. Then when the non-religicists show up, fight back, and make mincemeat of the religicist arguments, the religicists cry "atheists are intolerant of our beliefs!" or "athiests are shoving their beliefs down our throats!"

I find it laughably hypocritical. And I'm not even an atheist.

[CygnusZ]

Most athiests don't care. They might have a friendly arguement, but attempting to change somebodies religious belief's in near impossible.

What really gets my goat is how fanatics constantly attempt to get rid of evolution in the public schools and replace it with "special creation".

[JCG]

Well, atheists can be JUST as extremist and convertion-happy as Christians...Not just regarding evolution, but other atheist ideas in general. In the end, they are the same fanatics, only wearing different robes.

I just equally ignore both factions and concentrate on my OWN beliefs which do not require converting anyone else but me.

[Gangerolf]

Are there still any Non Crazy Sect (NCS) Christians not accepting evolution?

[Akka]

Originally posted by SKILORD
Still no rational reasons to convert a person to Evolution have been posted and i feel really stupid if i tell you that it's obviously the work of Satan, which is quite frankly the only one i can conceive.

The same rational reason that one day drove some people to interrupt the one who was saying "Earth is flat" and correct him.
It's called fight against ignorance and blind beliefs.
It's actually a very kind and very good reason, and it benefit to humanity on the whole.

[monkspider]

I wouldn't hold common Darwinian evolution up as being absolute fact. I generally accept a majority of it's concepts, such as natural selection, micro-evolution and so forth. There are indisputable facts. I think it's even safe to say that anthromorphic macro-evolution can occur as well. However, there are serious scientific problems with acceping evolution as the end-all solution to all things in Biology. Such as the Cambrian Explosion, Irreducible Complexity, paucity of fossil records, unexplainable source of domesticated plants and animals, etc, etc. I think that it is perfectly reasonable to challege evolution on scientific merits, however it should still receive attention in classrooms as a very important scientific concept not to be thrown out by a couple of upset conservative parents. But to be fair though, the evolutionists who wish to side-step the problems with their theory and label those dare question them "silly creationists" are no worse than the fundamentalists that they so disdain.

[Rex Little]

Religious types try to convert others a LOT more often than atheists do. Other than some of the debate threads here (which are really more intellectual exercise than attempts to convert), the only atheist I've ever heard of who was on a conversion kick was Madalyn (sp?) Murray O'Hair.

Let me emphasize that I'm not criticizing the religious folks for this. Many of them honestly think they're doing you a service. My youngest brother, a fundamentalist Christian, truly believes that I will be tormented for eternity if I don't accept Christ before I die, and that worries him no end. Hence he preaches to me every chance he gets.

[Boris Godunov]

If my brother did that to me, he'd find himself on the receiving end of a swift kick to his ass.