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Why is it that we atheists secretly believe in the Christian god?

Yet, we do not secretly believe in any of the other gods

Update:

I guess I should of said supposedly secretly believe

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  • 1 decade ago
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    Because we're no more than juvenile rebels, of course.

  • 1 decade ago

    in Genesis 1,God does declare ,"Lets make man in our image,and give him dominion over all living things,the air the earth",and so forth.to me that means we have all the good in us that God has .and we know Him as our creator.however ,because of our rebellion,we choose to do our own will,and not Gods will .and im sure we consciously believe that we will be judged by Him in the end for all our deeds and idle words yet somehow , not completely consciously, if we deny Him then we cant be judged.and so we go blithely about our business.{the lusts of the flesh and so on}

  • 1 decade ago

    Because the people who accuse us of that secret belief do not have the imagination to even think about people who believe in the reality of hypothetical deities other than the one that they are imagining. Their particular imagined hypothetical deity saturates their imagination.

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    Regards,

    John Popelish

  • cosmo
    Lv 7
    1 decade ago

    At our weekly Athiest meeting, Satan got up and said that it's the Christian God that we shouldn't believe in.

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  • pab
    Lv 7
    1 decade ago

    uh huh, i secretly believe in him, but publically don't. That makes a lot of sense.

  • 1 decade ago

    It's okay. We Christians secretly know you do.

    It's about hope.

  • 1 decade ago

    Because anyone Athetist or otherwise is a fool if that can't see that there is something out there bigger than ourselves. If you search your soul you'll find the answer!

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Is that why I'm a Christian on here every other day? I'm profoundly confused now.

  • Tim M
    Lv 5
    1 decade ago

    So, Mr. Dawkins, you get cancer and suddenly you're all about the Redeemer. SOOOOO predictable!

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    eh comfort. something to fall back onto when all else fails. last resort.

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