This is a silly thread.
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Originally posted by irateplatypus
It would seem that if someone argued that something exists that I thought absurd, pink elephants for example, I would shrug their comment off and give it no more thought. But many who do not believe in a God devote their lives to proclaiming that fact and belittling those who disagree.
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Of course there are people who are vehement in their non-belief of God.
irateplatypus's premise is flawed.
Some people will be passive and simply shrug off this belief like they would pink elephants but many people will try just as vehemently to dissuade you from thinking that there are pink elephants. It's only natural to assume that these people will also vehemently dissuade you from believing in God if they thought He didn't exist.
Haven't you ever had a heated argument over someone because you
knew they were wrong? Surely this has happened before. Some examples I can think of in my own life that I have witnessed (not necessarily participated in) is whether the post office delivers the mail on the weekend, or whether you really need more than one microphone to record sound in stereo. These people could simply have shrugged and said to themselves "okay, they're deluding themselves. Why would I care?" but they didn't because they wanted to "correct" someone, for whatever reasons.
I'll be very surprised if you've
never wanted to correct someone...