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To: JAG 5000

Technically correct, but ineffective as a means of influence.

There are no “Other” Gods either, and yet they are still worshiped as though they do exist.

Understanding WHY a person CHOOSES atheism I think is more important to study.


14 posted on 06/25/2020 6:45:59 AM PDT by Safrguns
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To: Safrguns

As for WHY a person chooses atheism, I have personal knowledge.

Take my sister...please *rim shot*

After she left home, she kinda hemmed and hawed about whether or not she believed. She used to call herself an agnostic. As the years went by, and she went through some admittedly hard things (including an abusive husband), her opinions changed. She eventually married a guy who is an atheist (who has treated her quite well for over 15 years now). She started gaining friends who Normals see as degenerate...people who were homosexuals, into polyamory, and the like. Because Christians stand in opposition to these people, she chose to turn towards her friends and turn away from G-d and from those who worship Him.

She doesn’t call herself an atheist because she doesn’t believe (although that’s what she’ll tell you..,,”Science! is all”). She calls herself an atheist because she hates G-d because she views Him as ‘mean’ and ‘evil’ because of His laws and statutes that are in direct opposition to what her friends believe and live out. And, consequently, she also hates those who follow Him and anything they believe in (political, social, economical, etc.)

She only tolerates me because I am her brother, and I treat her with civility. I am the only link she has to her family anymore as she has not spoken to our dad for over 10 years (an entirely different story). I pray for her that she’d have her eyes opened and would turn to Yeshua for forgiveness.

But, if things keep going the way they are, I may lose any contact with her completely before the November elections. And when she brands you as an enemy, she does not forgive, so there’s no going back.


19 posted on 06/25/2020 7:11:01 AM PDT by hoagy62 (DTCM&OTTH)
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