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Originally Posted by The12thMan";p="
Kinda funny that you posted that. The question I have been trying to answer for years is 'why do atheists try to convert people?' I am constantly amazed as I personally don't try to convert people to Christianity.
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My guess would be that the same kind of people and personalities, who are trying to convert people to religions, are trying to convert people to atheism. It is just a different camp with the same people. I'm myself an atheist and I have no need to convert people to fit my religious/secular ideals (I try to convert people only to my political ideas
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I see the religion having much more connection with such things as happiness, values and personal identity than with the truth, reality or factual issues. I can understand, why people want and need to believe in things (I believed once myself). If I knew for certain, that I would be simply happier and more succesful as a human being, if I chose a certain religion, I could really do so, even if the religion worshipped some Australian Capitalistic Gold-nose Kangaroo. It is not so much a factual issue as it is a happiness one.
I also have a certain respect for different philosophies and moral guidance included in certain religions (like Christianity). It is kind of sad, that religions like also other ideals, have been so much misused and abused. Offenly, the man has changed the religion and it's message more than the religion and it's message has changed the man. After all, was it not the West with both the most pacifistic and peace loving religion and with the most violent history of war?
- BtD