Why do some people think so highly of themselves b/c they don't believe in God?

Y do u who don't believe in God think ur better than Christians? And what makes u think Christians r so stupid for actually believing in something? I c it everyday on YA- The Christian bashers. It gets old. Everyone is so rude about it! Y do u care?

Why do some people think so highly of themselves b/c they don't believe in God?
When a person is angry it is usually because they are HURT. Whether a person is a Christian and hurts when they are constantly ridiculed by some, or feel their faith is attacked, or whether a person who is an Atheist feels they are attacked or demeaned for their lack of religion- it's the same. In either case, I don't believe it is because the person thinks highly of themselves. the rudeness, from either viewpoint, is usually reaction based in hurt and a lack of thinking highly of self.


Sometimes it's a reaction of something a person hears over and over again, whether being told how their faith is a weakness or being told their lack of faith dooms them to hell for eternity or makes them somehow a lesser person.


A person that has a healthy self-esteem won't be shaken in their faith or non-belief in a God because of what someone posts.
Reply:YVW, thanks for the question. Report It

Reply:to make their self esteem go up. nobody is superior to anyone. Most of these people would NEVER say most things that are said if they were face to face. cowards.
Reply:Religious folks have been busting our kind for millenia, I think its finally our turn to say aha we were right!
Reply:Yet you appear to be judging others. Hmmm.
Reply:I think highly of myself anyway. The 'atheist' label is but a tiny part of my life. My high-flying, international lifestyle is the envy of all, I'm devilishly (sorry) good looking, intelligent, witty, 6'5" and built like a brick outhouse.





And I have a bunch of rigidly minded, ignorant people who wouldn't know me if I passed them on the street, reminding me how wrong I am on here. Their opinions validate my choices in life enormously, because I know I'll never be like them.





Thanks! :)
Reply:What is so bad about thinking highly of yourself?


Do you have to have low self-esteem to believe in a god who listens to your prayers? I would think it would make you feel very powerful that a god would bother with you.


I think highly of myself because I am smart, capable and nice. I take good care of myself and my family. I love lots of people. I enjoy Yahoo/answers. I enjoy my life.


I think a lot of Christians think they have a corner on truth and god's will. Talk about arrogance!


I do not have a corner on anything except my own life/decisions. I do not know or care what a god's will is since I quit believing in fairy tales at about age 12-13.


I believe in the strength of love to overcome bad things.


I believe in families and friends.


I believe in using my brains to make sense of life.


I believe in using my talents to make the world a better place for myself and others.


I believe religious people as a group are deluded and hypocritical. There are some exceptions, of course.


I think Christians tend to be under-educated about other people's ideas. Like thinking a thought not "Christian approved" will ruin them somehow.


I resent big time, christians trying to legislate how I live based on their book, not mine. I am an American, not a religious zealot.
Reply:I'm sick of the Christian bashers too. Christians follow Christ who mainly told people to good to each other....we could use a lot more of those people around couldnt we????? Wait til those people have a problem in their life, then they might just realize they arent so great without some DEVINE intervention.
Reply:Wow, could you possibly fit any more generalizations in there?
Reply:I am a Christian and I feel your pain sister. I am highly educated. And why refer back to the earth not being flat as a point reference? I know why you used it because it was a scandal. But, really. To answer you my sister. We know it was prophesied that in the last days people would be "boastful, proud, rude, arrogant, lovers of themselves and lovers of pleasure and not lovers of God." The Bible also says that "knowledge puffs up, but love builds up." They keep inflating themselves with "knowledge and depend on their cultural correctness" . We as Christians and many of us with Doctorate degrees, and other degrees we depend on love and we seek to love others by building them up. Don't worry about it. All these things must come to pass. You know the Word. I pray you'll be encouraged and know you're not alone in this dark and dying world.
Reply:Because I know earth is not flat and universe is not 5000 years old.





I am more intelligent than god for sure.
Reply:Sad as it is, it's actually an accomplishment in the world today to be a grown adult and not believe in fairy tales. It should be standard, but there's a lot of religious delusion affecting people globally.
Reply:Well for starters, we take the time to actually spell out complete words. Honestly, it's not like typing is all that hard... now if it was like doing a triathlon then I could see taking the shortcuts, but seriously, how freaking hard is it to type out WHY and YOU???
Reply:People are being rude about it on both sides.





And even in the middle (Agnostics).





Those who don't think particularly highly of themselves often don't participate in such conversations.





OK, so now I'm going to be rude:





Militant agnostic: I don't know AND NEITHER DO YOU!
Reply:Satan fell because of Pride.


It is in fact the original sin, and will drag more people down to Hell than any other one thing.
Reply:I agree, and maybe they want to believe but to hard headed, rude AND arogan too!





AND SOME EVEN EXPECT US CHRISTIANS NOT TO SAY ANTHING ABOUT THEM!
Reply:y = why


u = you


ur = you are


r = are


c = see





I paid attention in biology class and I know the earth is billions of years old. Noah did not have tame dinosaurs helping him build the ark. Continents did not get tossed thousands of miles while volcanoes exploded during the flood. There are no such thing is sky fairies.





I don't think I'm better than anyone, by the way.
Reply:well, we typically are educated....





AND I care because your church is trying to legislate morality...
Reply:Hello Pebbles! You seem so nice, but you are generalizing, which is just as serious an infraction as those you accuse of Christian bashing. Idiots occupy every station in life, as do decent and well-meaning people. There are idiot Christians and there are reasonable atheists. It is my sincere belief that anyone possessing the requisite humility WILL eventually find God.
Reply:I don't think Christians are stupid, I think they are misled.
Reply:I think so highly of myself on account of my blinding awesomeness.
Reply:Who cares? Questions like this just stir up trouble. I believe you should believe what you want to believe and let others have their beliefs. You can think as highly of yourself as you want to, and it doesn't affect me, so why do you care? If you are christian, great, if not, great. I don't care. You shouldn't either.
Reply:I don't think I'm any better than you. What makes Christians think they're any better than me? I'm constantly judged because I don't believe the way you do. I'm not considered a trustworthy person because I don't believe in god. I am viewed as immoral. I live a good life. I love my family and friends. I give to charities and donate my time. I am not a thief, a murderer, a cheater. But Christians feel they are better than me. I don't feel that I am any better than you. If you truly believe, I respect your beliefs and your feelings.
Reply:When we are children we do exactly what we are told, or else we're punished. As we grow older, we are able to figure out what we can and can't, should and shouldn't do.





So to believe in something that we can't see, to believe in something whose truth we rely upon from what we read in a 2000 year old book and what people tell us, to non-christians that way of thinking is childish.
Reply:Could it be that they think that having a "degree" makes them think they are superior to ordinary humankind? I knew that all that book learnin' would do nobody no good. I told 'em.





I'm a nominal Christian, I am wary of today's "organized" religions. Did not Jesus say that whenever two or more were gathered together in his name they were as his church. Yes, I know that God exists just as much as Satan exists.
Reply:I'm not a crisitain but i am a muslim and i believe in a god and i kno wut u mean...





i think they do that because they dont have an almighty to look up to so them make themselves the almighty... just my guess
Reply:I am Catholic, I do believe in God and I think the reason people dont belive in God is because they don care about it or it could be because of what their parent tought them to not believe in God if is that the case you could not judge them that hard because is not realy their foult that they parents tought them to belive in nothing but themself
Reply:Because it took a tremendous amount of thinking, reasoning and contemplation to rid ourselves of a story we were told and raised with since childhood.
Reply:people who bash other people either feel very insecure about themselves or their beliefs, so they have to put others down to build them up, OR their lives are just so boring they have nothing better to do. good question. :D
Reply:Did we not evolve?!?!
Reply:Well, we are. Usually people who believe in mystial, magical, made up characters well into there adult life, are not very smart and lack a lot of common sense.
Reply:I know exactly how you feel. Absence of proof is not proof of absence.





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