Why not leave Christians to believe?

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Mon, 2008-01-28 20:30.

Question:

Why not leave Christians to believe? Especially since Christians, in your view, will not lose anything by dying a believer.

Atheist Answer

Not losing anything is a poor reason to be a Christian, or to belong to any other group.

There are three main reasons why atheists assault the beliefs of theists. The first is simply that it's sad to see other people be wrong about something so important. The second is that if the beliefs are false, which is likely, then theists are spending a huge amount of time, energy, money and emotion on something which will not reward them in the way they hope. They're losing a portion of their lives.
The third is that theism often breeds animosity towards atheists, and most other theists.

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