What stops atheists believing?

April 12, 2010 in Christian Living, Outreach

Two questions are asked:

  1. If you don’t believe in God, what would it take for you to believe?
  2. If you do believe in God, what would it take for you not to believe?

An interesting idea for an online discussion. You can read the (104 at last count) answers here.

And for some (as Jesus himself made clear), no evidence would be good enough:

“I probably won’t believe until I’m either standing in front of the sky fairy in heaven or roasting for all eternity in hell. I believe the chances for either to be infinitismally small. If I did believe in God, I’d be a disthiest.”

Thanks Glen for letting me know about this and for your ever interesting posts!

As a related aside, Andrew makes an interesting observation about the media’s interest in atheism:

“When 2000-3000 atheists turn up in Melbourne for a conference to listen to some talks the media turns up to report on it. When 2000-3000 Christians (plus 1000 children) turn up to Katoomba for a conference to listen to some talks, it is just another Easter (or another one of the 5 conferences that KCC run, some over multiple weekends as 3000 seats are not enough)”.

  • http://christthetruth.wordpress.com Glen

    Anyone who agrees to the terms of that question is already discussing the wrong god. And if you want proof – just read the comments at Unreasonable Faith or at my blog. Both the theists and the atheists who responded at Unreasonable Faith are on exactly the same side – debating the existence or otherwise of a god who is subject to us.

    Thanks for the link Steve :)

  • http://christthetruth.wordpress.com Glen

    Also, the link that Bobby provided was very good

    http://christiantheology.wordpress.com/2008/10/09/pitfalls-for-atheists-to-avoid/

    The 11 commandments of atheist blog interactions! And the comments add some other priceless ones.