If you still debate religion, how do you stomach it?

You may never understand how/why I believe in God and I may never understand how/why you do not. Once you experience the Grace of God you are transformed and you will never want to live without it.

That's the fun of it, yes.

Obviously you haven't learned much judging by your characterization of Christians as being all feelings and atheists as all rational . No wonder you are discouraged. Are you even interested in truth or only self confirmation?

read-
"Jacobs Ladder : Ten Steps to Truth" by Peter Kreeft, Professor of Philosophy at Boston College.

The secret is to not debate. Just smile and say "Believe what you will and I shall do the same." Guaranteed to piss anyone of any religion off.

it can get tiring. That's why I usually chose not to debate but correct or answer honest inquiry. I am a Christian. I see no conflict between my great faith in God and Jesus Christ and my love of Science and fact. One of my Dad's favorite sayings is "where's your source?" We were taught not to take any ones word on anything but to study it and decide for ourselves what was correct. Atheists like to claim "Solid science" as a platform but Science is NOT solid. Scientific discovery is an ongoing process and as we learn the "facts" change to fit our new level of knowledge. The scientific Method can, in a personal and modified sense, be applied to God, which is those "feelings" and experiences you are so quick to dismiss. But you can not prove human evolutionary theory, you can not prove the big bang, or even global warming, I mean climate change. I have yet to have a conflict between science and God. In fact, I find the more I learn about the wonders of our world the more faith I have.

I keep myself in shape by arguing with an old friend who is a jehovah witness. They have a rabid appetite for arguing their false religion.

it makes the world go 'round.

I do little debating, as christians love nothing more than to hear themselves yammer. I believe even sarcastic or rhetorical Q&As have value if they force one to inwardly question the reasoning process behind their beliefs, to face the absurdity.

I really just clicked on this purely out of curiosity and I must say I am truly annoyed that I did. Anything that starts off by saying "I harassed people because of their beliefs" is just a pleasant little indicator of what type pf person is writing this. I respect peoples right to choose whatever belief or disbelief system they so happen to fall under. However to just say you are rude and ignorant to someone because of their personal belief is arrogant. It is the equivalent to a bible beater or a jihad crazed Muslim. If you want to debate it means that you also have to be open to the other persons side as opposed to being stubborn and saying there is no possible way for the religion to be right. What you want is an argument. I doubted my belief system for years and I have studied religions from all over the world. So if you really want to have a debate study both sides and not just scratch the surface of one of the most prominent religions and on top of that do not expect people to have an intellectual debate if all you want to do is berate them and tell them there whole belief is wrong. I suggest you pick up a book called the Case for Christ, it is written by a man named Lee Strobel who was a prick of an atheist and decided that he could disprove an entire religion. Strobel as a man of facts went out and now is a prominent figure in the Christian community because while he was writing his book he found and validated many facts and details. As for the facts and everything a lot of what people have always believed about the bible are changing just like science and history because at the end of the day if there really is a God we either believe or don't and for that reason everyone involved has to be open to every side and every possibility. I do not know if God is real I personally believe he is. Maybe it is just a feeling, but I also believe in science and I think they go hand in hand. My biggest thing is so what if people believe in God and Christ. We are taught to be kind to help and love others, I really do not see how that is a bad thing. Now you might counter and say what about the wars and the bible beaters and people like westboro baptist and to that I can simply say is that people are people and not matter what religion, race, or creed people will find a cause or a belief or even a passion that will justify hate, war, murder ,judgement, or any other human shortcoming. That is one thing that does not need divine reasoning. People are flawed that is a fact. One of us could be right or all of us could be wrong and we will not know until we are dead, unless you are right then we will just be nothing.

hi,
not sure what your question is...
i am a sort of atheist, mostly due to being raised by such - or, my mother was Buddhist, and father not speaking of his Protestant background.
i don't base my opinions on the scientific method, perhaps being more agnostic than atheist.
i envy those that have the capacity for blind faith, to have something to believe in. something that 'controls' our destiny or whatever.
due to my envy, i have no desire to try to dissuade those of religion to believe otherwise - they are more fortunate than i and why would i want to undermine their belief system?
i don't believe that everything in the bible is fact, but, for those that do... well, lor' bless them.
whatever is true i may only hope to ever learn, and if any gods see me unworthy due to my agnosticism then i can only hope they can show forgiveness for what i was never taught to understand.

I just answer honest questions, or I correct a question/statement that's false about my religion or another religion(if I know it well enough). I usually try to avoid debate, except in the case someone attacks my religion.

A lot of Christians are scientists and believe in scientific discoveries, do rigorous debating, etc. And many Atheists just don't believe in a God, they didn't just stop believing in God because of science.
Richard Dawkins is kind of a douche and a hypocrite. Plus hes become more intolerant and unwilling to change his mind like most of the religious organizations that hes been trying to stop. Hes also a militant Atheist.

Oh, and you harass Christians? OMG you're such a rebel! U've got soo much SWAG. U r so awesum, may I ave ur autograph. Youre soooooo intelligent!

It does seem to be pointless to "debate" about something you believe doesn't exist.
Why would you even want to try? It's like batting at the air from your point of view.

The Christian knows what he believes and also sees no point in arguing with something whp
is arguing just for the sake of arguing.

And arguing about any "religion" is also pointless. All "religion" is man made ...a set up of
rules and regulations that don't save anyone.

Jesus, however is not a religion...He is a person, the Son of God and is reality that the
Christian will try to tell you about...but they also don't need to defend. God is well able
to defend Himself. He has already set a plan in place to save you and me. Then He
says "Choose my Son and have eternal life". Go your own way and take the consequences.
It is very clear, and very simple...so simple a child can find Him.

Read John 3:16 7 17 and John 14:6 if you want to know His plan. If not...just wait...the rest
will come on its own, and there won't be any time left for decisions. God's words. not mine.

I do not debate religion.

I answer questions about religion and spirituality.

Have you missed the purpose of Yahoo Answers?

With love in Christ.

Its not like i spend every hour of every day thinking about debating religion vs reality.......i find time to do other things......and as far a stomaching it goes, all y friends know my beliefs and anyone who tries to find fault in my beliefs is usually in for a good argument.

I think it's the other way around. Christians base their beliefs on scientific discovery, skepticism and rigorous debate. Atheists base their beliefs on feelings and the experience they get when they listen to one of their leaders. Richard Dawkins is my favorite. Every time I read one of his books, especially the god delusion one, he strengthens my faith. Funny thing is that atheists project their feelings onto christians by saying they have science, and we have faith. All true science agrees with the Bible, and it takes a lot of faith to believe we came from pond scum. In fact, abiogenesis is totally based on faith.

I agree, debate is pointless. I've asked several atheists to read a book on ID or creation, and I would happily read one of their choice on atheism. So far, only one claimed to accept the challenge, and then after claiming to read it, spouted some things about the book written by a skeptic who also didn't read it! Amazing. The most important thing to remember is that atheists have no morals, so they can lie and nobody will care. Christians, however, have to follow some rules, so you know you have a better chance of them at least being straight with you. I can't say the same about atheists. So, I agree, arguing with atheists is a waste of time.