lcb

if a person honestly studies all the evidence available and weighs the arguments and the probabilities and decides to choose Christianity,whether as part of a calculated risk averse strategy or not, would the people here view that person as less of a person?

Toto

No. Perhaps you have made an illogical decision, and but that is a very human thing to do, even if you are not being fully honest about how you got there.

Synaesthesia

Yes,

Whenever someone becomes a christian, I become blind to their left knee.

lcb

toto, with 3010 posts are you SURE this board isnt your source for free psychoanalysis? is it logical to be that obsessed with a non-existant God?

Pomp

I'm confused. What on earth does this have to do with what Toto posted?

At any rate, this topic seems like it would be a better fit in MRD. Off it goes.

randomsyllable

I haven't been here long admittedly, but I'd point out that new people keep coming and asking questions. Many the same. End result, lots of posts. In addition, there are forums not specifically related to the religious debates.

Also, why do you assume all we talk about is "your" God?

...oh well, in answer to your question, I think no less of someone for their choice. I base my response to their choice based on their actions undertaken in accordance with their "faith"

HelenM

lcb, does toto's post count here make him (or her) less of a person, in your estimation?

Philosoft

lcb has left plenty of evidence that his left knee exists. You just choose to ignore it, infidel.

PJPSYCO

Actually, if this were used for psychoanalysis it would mearly show that atheists seem to deal with opposing religions with humor. We see this quite clearly in th fact that when a fundy says atheists, they say it atheist (yes, I know they tend to spell it wrong but this is talking - they do say it correctly), and when an atheist talks about a fundamentalist they say fundy .

Atheists don't look down on theists, since most of us are objectivists. We look at them objectively. Like my spelling line, of 95% of the Christians I have interacted with through writing can't spell atheist for the life of them(before they are critiqued multiple times for their misspelling). They honestly never learned that the word is three sylables and seperated on the ei making the word a-the-ist. Spelling the word is then quite simple. So, they are readily critiqued for the misspelling. Other causes can be readily sited from this notable fat as well. In writings by atheists, the word atheist is >99% spelled right. So, it is unlikely the person has interacted with the word through study of the culture. Also when they say that they have read these works, we can easily infer that they are lying since they didn't even notice the spelling of the primary word in the culture.

To summarize, they are not looked down upon, they are critiqued objectively.

Amos

To chose Christianity willfully is to be misled because Christian-ity is not a choice but a gift from God.

You may choose and religion you wish but you can never choose to be a Christian and to be a Christian you probably should not go to church because that is where it is most difficult to be a Christian. For one, Jesus left the Church when he bacame a Christian (he was a Jew), and for two, there are no temples in the New Jerusalem.