Or to put it another way, why would an atheist be interested in someone he denies exists?
In many years of debate with atheists on this forum, I have noticed three types of atheists.
The first don't believe but don't care if you do. They are true atheists in my view. They simply don't care. They are unreachable.
The second don't believe and want to justify or excuse themselves to those who do. These I perceive are agnostic in their atheism. They are reachable.
The third are anti-God/anti-Christ activists. They hate God and are zealous to destroy all belief in Him. Like the demons, they obviously believe God IS. But they deplore Him. They are unreachable.
I think those are very astute and accurate observations.
Do you know why you like certain foods, certain people, colors, etc? I don't. Some things turn us on and others turn us off for a verity of reasons.
I never make it my business to turn a thread into personal analysis. I don't go into why people are on these threads. I presume they are here because they want to be, for a good reason, whatever that reason may be. It's not my business. For personal question we have private mail.
Or to put it another way, why would an atheist be interested in someone he denies exists?
I never said I am an atheist and I never denied that God exists. This is something everyone is imputing to me, by mind reading and making it their business instead of dealing with issues.
I really don't know if God exists or not, and I really don't know what God is. That's not the same as saying I deny that God exists.
Personally, I dislike most atheists as they seem to be angry with God for some reason. I am not. Theirs is a misdirected anger, talking out their frustrations and disappointments on something they don't even know.
On the other hand, believers don't seem to know what God is either, so they make him out to be wherever their fancy takes them. Some are humble believers for whom faith is a private matter; others are militant fundamentalists who stop at nothing in order to establish their God as the one "true" God. My interest is with what people have made and make God out to be (hence my interest in the history/development/corruption of the Church and the Bible).