me and atheist

The people with the most faith are the atheists, bar none!!! If you're a christian and feel like you need a strong dose of humility you could use some practice talking about "God" stuff, talk to an atheist. I wrote a short blog to the 'Wisconsin State Journal' as follows is a response to my blog. Atheism is not a big deal at all if there is no kind of god.We might tweak each others noses on religion, but always stay civil. Of course wars have been fought and are being waged now over religious ideology. If, though, we are in the 'end times' as I seriously believe, a lot of lazy so-called christians need a spur up their butts (can I say that?) hard, quickly and often. We need a heart burn for others spiritual shape. We need to be educated better than we are now so that we can handle other beliefs. Christians should use the bible first and other writings constantly. You can not talk to atheists, Mormans, Jehovah Witnesses, etc. if you do not know what you are talking about. So here am I (lolatom), and an atheist's (forumite) response to my 'blog':

I'm from the KansasCity area and get into the Madison area about once or twice a week. I grabbed a paper and interestingly found your column. About God and Dawkins, be careful. Be very, very careful. If Dawkins is wrong, then a lot of people are applauding a lie. If there is no god, why are the 'atheists' so much about disproving him, even with silly slogans like "Blasphemy is a victimless crime"? If there is no god, he's safe. Leave us alone and let us worship. If there might be a god, then we should be vigilant as to his purpose and character. The thought that interests me the most is this, Almost all people believe and have always believed that God is a reality. That has been the thought and experience of billions of people for thousands of years. I personally believe the christian faith would prosper more if most christians would keep there lips together and they sat on their hands. They don't seem to be able to speak with much knowledge. Debates between 'atheists' and 'believers' are always entertaining and always useless. My suggestion to all those who applaud any body of any faith or world view is to put that speaker's feet in the fire and test him or her as to their reliability of truth. Oh, yeah, I forgot. Most people no longer believe in absolute truth.
lolatom wrote:
If there is no god, why are the 'atheists' so much about disproving him, even with silly slogans like "Blasphemy is a victimless crime"?

To protect us from those who would force their version of God on everybody else.
lolatom wrote:
Leave us alone and let us worship.If those who worship would let everyone else alone, there'd probably be a better chance of them being left alone.
lolatom wrote:
If there might be a god, then we should be vigilant as to his purpose and character.If there was a god, don't you think that He would be capable of making His purpose and character clear to all?
lolatom wrote:
The thought that interests me the most is this, Almost all people believe and have always believed that God is a reality. That has been the thought and experience of billions of people for thousands of years.Nonsense. Christianity is only 2,000 years old. Judaism is only about 1,000 years older, and was an obscure religion in a cultural backwater. Even today, only about 55% of the world's population considers themselves Judeo-Christian (that's including Muslims). For most of history, the figure has been far lower. Most religions, from the first invention of religion, have been polytheistic. And there were never a billion people alive on the Earth until the early 1800s.
lolatom wrote:
I personally believe the christian faith would prosper more if most christains would keep there lips together and sat on their hands. They seem to not speak with a lot of knowledge.Got to agree with you there.
lolatom wrote:
Debates between 'atheists' and 'believers' are always entertaining and useless. My suggestion to all those who applaud any body of any faith or world view is to put that speaker's feet in the fire and test him or her as to their reliability of truth.Entertainment has its own value. And how will you "put their feet in the fire"? How will any religious adherent survive such a test?
lolatom wrote:
Oh, yeah, I forgot. Most people no longer believe in absolute truth.

I have to add this now that reread the post. There have indeed been billions of people on the earth over all these centuries tallied together.

Islam is the 'New kid on the block' since it began only about 623 AD or (CE if you would rather use that).

True christians consider Judaism to be the tree and Christianity to be the branch grafted to that tree. Christ is the root. Another way to say this is Jews are the Christians' elders. Judaism is thousands of years, not ONE thousand years, older than Christianity or Islam.

Muslims do NOT consider themselves either Christian nor Jew and are isulted when they are equated with other religions. In fact, religiously speaking, they despise us.

Atheists do not need protection from Christians, it's the other way around. Atheists would, and are now trying, to pass laws to greatly reduce the influence and activity of any religion, especially Christianity.

I still say that many Christians do more harm than good and would do better if they remained quite while reeducating themselves about basic bible truths.

I still say, also, debates between Christians and Atheists are entertaining at best and always useless.