Why Do Atheists Return to Theism?

by B_Deserter 145 Replies latest jw friends

  • FlyingHighNow
    FlyingHighNow
    And when you cross over, he'll probably apologize to you
    AND we are going to have a smack DOWN...lots of questions I'll have for God...

    And he will patiently and graciously answer them. I've yelled at him many times. I am confident he understands.

  • parakeet
    parakeet

    FHN wrote: "I think if someone really believes there is not a God, he/she probably has much better things to do with their time than to constantly discuss their disbelief. It's almost as if the "atheist" is trying very hard to convince him/her self that there is no God."





    Or ..... maybe theists really believe in God, and atheists really do not believe in God. Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.

  • trevor
    trevor
    A riddle for you: What does a dislexic, agnostic insomniac do?

    FlyingHighNow:

    Lays awake thinking about Dog

  • BenV
    BenV

    Thought this poem by Portuguese poet Anthero de Quental (1842-1891) might -- somehow -- fit in here? But then what do I know?

    DIVINE COMEDY

    Lifting their arms to the heavens on high
    And addressing the invisible gods,
    The men cry out, “Immovable gods,
    Who gains from invincible fate? Why

    Did you create us? Time unfurls
    Relentlessly, and all it breeds
    Is pain, illusion, strife, foul deeds,
    In a cruel and delirious whirl. . .

    Wouldn’t it have been better for us
    To remain in the peace of pre-matter,
    In the eternal sleep of nothingness?

    Why were we made, if pain is our greatest
    End?” But the gods, with a voice yet sadder,
    Say, “Why, O men, did you create us?”

    ###

  • MissingLink
    MissingLink

    Their brains hurt from too much thinking for themselves.

  • FlyingHighNow
    FlyingHighNow
    Lays awake thinking about Dog

    Yes, lies awake at night thinking about whether or not there really is a dog.

  • FlyingHighNow
    FlyingHighNow
    Wouldn’t it have been better for us
    To remain in the peace of pre-matter,
    In the eternal sleep of nothingness?

    Nah, then we wouldn't have had The Beatles, roller coasters or etch a sketches. Oh yes and watermelon.

  • Junction-Guy
    Junction-Guy

    Maybe they are just tired of being condescending and always trying to prove someone wrong. I seem to notice that alot amongnst the atheists, at least the ones on here. I know very few atheists in real life so maybe there is a difference in a true atheist and one who just chooses to hate god based upon a man made cult.

  • SixofNine
    SixofNine

    Many people claim to be atheist when they are really agnostic. Some people even claim to be atheist after having gotten "really angry at God", which is perhaps the silliest thing I've ever heard.

  • Awakened07
    Awakened07

    Joke:

    Q: Why did the atheist return to theism?

    A: Because he wanted to get to 'the other side'.

    Aaahahaha, I kill me.

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