atheist s views on christianity was re accepting jeesus in your heart eric damien was presenting his views on christianity i ll respond to a few of his points in article apr athos rutgers edu gsu uxa ecn bgu edu eric molas writes firstly i am an atheist i am not posting here as an immature flame start but rather to express an opinion to my intended audience strong opinions start here the human being is an animal who has due to his her advanced mental facilities developed religion as a satisfiable solution to explain the unexplainable for example the ancient greeks believed that apollo drove his chariot across the sky each day was real due to the advancement of our technology we know this to be false this is certainly a valid objection to religion as explanation of nature fortunately for the convenience of us believers there is a class of questions that can never be reduced away by natural science for example why does the universe exist at all after all the time space world didn t have to exist why does anything exist and is it possible for persons e g man to come into being out of a purely impersonal cosmos these questions which look at the real mysteries of life the creation of the world and of persons provide a permanent indicator that the meaning of life in the material world can only be found outside that world in its source we are just animals we need sleep food and we reproduce and we die religion especially christianity is nothing more than a drug some people use drugs as an escape from reality christians inject themselves with jeezus and live with that high when you say that man is only an animal i have to think that you are presenting an unprovable statement a dogma if you will and one the requires a kind of faith too by taking such a hard line in your atheism you may have stumbled into a religion of your own but before you write off all christianity as phony and shallow i hope you ll do a little research into its history and varieties perhaps by reading paul johnson s a history of christianity from your remarks it seems that you have been exposed to certain types of christian religion and not others even an atheist should have enough faith in man to know that a movement of years has to have some depth and be animated by some enduring values with best wishes richard aquinas chonak norris mit edu usenet addict intp i have very exclusive and nuanced opinions license info available on request
