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Atheists: do you really think you can outsmart over 150 centuries of religion in regard to Christianity?
I mean, there are many philosophers and intellects that accept God and most of them devote their lives to find out more about Him and His mysteries. Both Himself and his plan have been revealed and testified by countless prophets along the line, so why? Why are you an atheist, despite all this, and do you think that you can discredit the majority of history and testimonies of *Christians* (who you say are liars) that claim they've had miracles, not to mention several miracles witnessed by the masses by labeling each and every one of them as hoaxes?


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NinjaJJ Your Answer:

First things first let it be know that I am a Christian/Buddhist
And away we go
1. Christianity has only been around for 2,009 years not 15,000 years and if you want too say it's been around longer you really need to look into your faith seeing how Christianity is based on the Birth/Life/Death of Jesus Christ and before that there was no Christianity so yeah.

2. There have been many number of prophets form a countless number of religions and anyone that is Not promoting Christianity is called crazy or even mad, mainly because Christianity is one of the few religions that voice there beliefs and any one who doesn't agree is just considered silly.

3. Let it be know that most of the best philosophers and intellects such as Aristotle, Bertrand Russell, John Locke, Plato, Socrates, Sun Tzu, Thomas Hobbes, where not of the Christian faith.

4. Most Atheists still believe in something just not the god faith that you would like them too, for example Buddhism, humanism, rationalism, and naturalism.

And if I could Quote Wikipedia on one part

"Although people who self-identify as atheists are usually assumed to be irreligious, some sects within major religions reject the existence of a personal, creator deity. In recent years, certain religious denominations have accumulated a number of openly atheistic followers, such as atheistic or humanistic Judaism and Christian atheists.

As the strictest sense of positive atheism does not entail any specific beliefs outside of disbelief in any deity, atheists can hold any number of spiritual beliefs. For the same reason, atheists can hold a wide variety of ethical beliefs, ranging from the moral universalism of humanism, which holds that a moral code should be applied consistently to all humans, to moral nihilism, which holds that morality is meaningless.

Although it is a philosophical truism, encapsulated in Plato's Euthyphro dilemma that the role of the gods in determining right from wrong is either unnecessary or arbitrary, the argument that morality must be derived from God and cannot exist without a wise creator has been a persistent feature of political if not so much philosophical debate. Moral precepts such as "murder is wrong" are seen as divine laws, requiring a divine lawmaker and judge. However, many atheists argue that treating morality legalistically involves a false analogy, and that morality does not depend on a lawmaker in the same way that laws do.

Philosophers Susan Neiman and Julian Baggini (among others) assert that behaving ethically only because of divine mandate is not true ethical behavior but merely blind obedience. Baggini argues that atheism is a superior basis for ethics, claiming that a moral basis external to religious imperatives is necessary to evaluate the morality of the imperatives themselves - to be able to discern, for example, that "thou shalt steal" is immoral even if one's religion instructs it - and that atheists, therefore, have the advantage of being more inclined to make such evaluations. The contemporary British political philosopher Martin Cohen has offered the more historically telling example of Biblical injunctions in favour of torture and slavery as evidence of how religious injunctions follow political and social customs, rather than vice versa, but also noted that the same tendency seems to be true of supposedly dispassionate and objective philosophers. Cohen extends this argument in more detail in Political Philosophy from Plato to Mao in the case of the Koran which he sees as having had a generally unfortunate role in preserving medieval social codes through changes in secular society.

Nonetheless, atheists such as Sam Harris have argued that Western religions' reliance on divine authority lends itself to authoritarianism and dogmatism. Indeed, religious fundamentalism and extrinsic religion (when religion is held because it serves other, more ultimate interests) have been correlated with authoritarianism, dogmatism, and prejudice. This argument, combined with historical events that are argued to demonstrate the dangers of religion, such as the Crusades, inquisitions, and witch trials, are often used by antireligious atheists to justify their views."
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Years of finding faith