As an Atheist, what do you think of this statement by a religious person?

Well I don't agree with trolling, a waste of people's energy, and counter to a dialectic. And that's what some kid saying anything purely to piss people off is. However I dislike people preemptively assuming other people's intentions to self-serve. Suggesting that someone holds the position they espouse because you deem it to be a "fad". When he sees a teenager on the street "screaming There is no God", how at that point could he know through what reasoning they hold that position?

"Worse still when they say that to be part of an "in crowd""

But that is exactly what these religions do. Defining an in-group of "believers" and going from there, not considering each of their beliefs based on their merits, but accepting them because they are held by the whole.

Yes, I would agree with that - taking your viewpoint on religion from whatever is fashionable or because you want to be a part of a certain group is very shallow. However teenage years are for exploring the options your parents have not given you - this is psychologically healthy. I became a Christian in defiance of my atheist parents but this was not a surface rebellion - this was a search for aspects of life my parents had not provided for me - religion - and I took it very seriously and read and join groups etc etc. Self discovery is a vital part of youth and I think Christians can be too quick to dismiss young people exploring the possibility that there is not a god as all about pissing off the parents and rebelling. I am an atheist now and I wonder what my daughter will do?

While this is certainly true to a limited extent, it bothers me more when adults, usually Christian, believe that every teenage atheist is an atheist for purely rebellious reasons.

Having come to this forum for some years now, I have to say that I've been introduced to some very sincere young atheists, some as young as 14 years old, who have accepted atheism on purely rational grounds and in no spirit of rebellion. They are often surprisingly knowledgeable and precocious, and are quite capable of defending their beliefs and/or lack of them.

It bothers me more when I hear some moron screaming that we're all going to burn forever, and that homosexuals and witches will get theirs in the afterlife. Only morons actually pay any attention to iconoclastic kids who want to annoy their parents, which is why the grownups are paying attention to other grownups. Not ranting about teenagers on public forums.

Some Christians say 'There is a god' to piss Atheists off too.

I like it. People should believe in what they believe in because that is the logic that they have come to, not because it's the cool thing to do.

I sort of agree with the person. Doing anything because "everybody is doing it" is stupid and often dangerous.

Everyone is always slammed for their own beliefs.

I am christian and am always slammed, but I keep trucking on....lol

I, frankly, agree. That was well thought out and well cool.

Religion is so mainstream.

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