kurious_kathy said:
God's ways are not our ways. His thoughts are much higher than ours. And when it comes to love, don't you think we all want respect with that love? I have had love in different ways now in my life, but the cruelest form of love is when someone says they love you, but they disrespect you! Do you know what that feels like? How do you think God must feel when we reject Him?
You can't have it both ways. If a god's ways are not our ways, such that we cannot judge him by our standards, then clearly we cannot understand how he feels when rejected either (for all we know, that may be what he wants).
Anyway, we're not saying we love this desert death cult god of yours, and yet giving him disrespect. We're not saying we even believe in his existence (in my case, at least - same category of entity as Santa, the Easter Bunny, or Invisible Pink Unicorns).
There seems to be a basic disconnect here. You seem not to believe it is possible that anyone doesn't believe in your chosen supernatural phenomenon, so those of us calling ourselves "atheists" you equate with "believers, but sinners". That is not the case. Threatening us with hell or other torments that we find equally fictional is logically going to be ineffective, but only once you understand that in fact we
do regard it as fiction.
This should not be a difficult concept. There are billions of non-Christians in the world. They fall into such categories as Moslems, Buddhists, Taoists, Pagans, Wiccans, followers of Hindu, and of course atheists. Excluding the latter for the moment, it can probably be assumed that you do not acknowledge the existence of any of the supposedly divine entities espoused by the other religions. Can you therefore not understand that the exact same method by which you reject these religions is the process by which we reject yours? Even if you don't agree with the idea that the Christian god is a fable, it should at least be possible to accept that other people believe this.
