What do you do when people mock/criticize your religion?

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you are just a typical christian. There is absolutly nothing special about you. You're arguments are weak as well as your state of mind. Look at how you've attacked the athiests on this thread.

When did I say anything about my own faith, claim to be special, or "attack" Atheists, praytell?

Actually, they dont know where they are going to, they are assuming based on their faith which is based on absoultly nothing other than a 'just because' belief.

You could be referring to anybody, here. My point was that people of any religion, including hard Atheism, "know" where they're going when they die as much as everybody else does. Nobody knows. Instead, we have faith. But Christians don't "fret" over whether they're going to one place or the other, they "know" where they're going, just like you "know" that you'll simply cease to exist.

Im sick of repeating myself. As a christian, the bible tells you to be always ready to explain the faith that you have.

That's much more accurate than the pathetic attempt of a scripture quote that you had earlier. No matter -- where does the Bible command Christians to explain their faith to you? If you don't like somebody's explanation of their faith, the burden isn't on them to deal with you badgering them.

Also, what the hell are you talking about? im asking her a question, why is that any of your damn buisiness to judge whether or not its important to me or not?

I'm not sure where you got the impression that I judged, thought, or gave a damn whether or not anything is important to you. Of course, it could be assumed that it's important to you, since you badger them about telling you while at the same time insulting their faith.

Actually you can ask many different preachers and im sure they'll tell you that rejecting jesus christ will sign you up for a one way ticket to hell. It is a sin, im not sure what you're talking about. And when i said "unforgivable sin" i meant its something that you cannot get into heaven for. Please dont call my words crap, Buddy.

I don't know how many preachers you've "asked", but my guess would be zero, since your words are crap. Refusing Jesus is not a sin. Rejecting Jesus will not "sign you up for a one way ticket to hell [sic]" -- we're already signed up. Accepting Jesus doesn't mean you don't get signed up, it means you get taken off the list. A simple understanding of Christianity or the Bible would correct this for you.

It's too bad you're offended, but I call a spade a spade. And I call crap, crap.

A religion is a system of beliefs shared by a group strengthened in faith, two big things in that definition are system and faith.

"System" or "set"? Are you trying to claim that you have absolutely no faith in anything, or that you have absolutely no belief system, even specific to yourself?

Wouldn't it mean that there are absolutely no religions in the world, since every one of us interprets our religion -- or claimed lack thereof -- in a different way?

Faith is the blind belief of something, or claiming knowledge when that knowledge is in actuality unknowable.

Faith is not a blind belief. I have faith that my truck will be where I left it when I get back to it, I have faith that my keys will fit the same padlocks that they fit last time I tried them, I have faith that the food I just ate for lunch isn't actually seasoned, disguised alien eggs that will hatch in my intestines and eat me from the inside.

Faith is not required for atheism as by definition it is the rejection of a belief, plain and simple.

Soft Atheism is the rejection of a belief. Hard Atheism is a belief in rejection. Hard Atheism, as a result, is faith -- not just faith, but blind faith.

I don't know what color hair you have. But I could say that I don't believe you have brown hair. That would be equivalent to soft Atheism -- I don't have a belief on your hair color, so I have no faith that it is or isn't any particular color. Or, I could say: I believe that your hair is not brown. That would be a hard belief, equivalent to hard Atheism -- I have a belief that it is not brown. And since I have no evidence either way, that belief is based on faith.

Do you require faith to reject my proposal that the chapstick to my left is the creator of the universe, or are you able to conclude through reason that the unlikelyness of that situation is so absurd that it need not be considered a possibility? Because by your reasoning there IS faith required to say it is not the creator, and that your beliefs would be a religion.

Yes. It does require faith to say that your chapstick is not the creator of the universe. Since there is no way to know for certain, even though it is incredibly unlikely, it still requires faith to believe.

And if you want to call it a religion, sure -- it could be combined with most other religions that say "such-and-such is the creator of the universe, which means that anything that doesn't fit into the such-and-such category is not possible to be the creator of the universe." Just like you believe, "such-and-such is not the creator of the universe, which means that anything that doesn't fit into the such-and-such category is possible to be the creator of the universe."

I actually find it really funny that christians attack athiests for not having a perfect understanding of their faith before attacking it, meanwhile you've decided what all athiests believe without knowing a damn thing about them.

Who said where anything about what all Atheists believe? And where have Atheists been attacked in this thread?

To be athiest does not imply acceptance of the big bang theory, evolution or darwinism, or anything else. Simply the rejection of the divine.

You might want to narrow that down a bit more, since the Big Bang and Evolutionism both require a faith in supernatural power.

By the way, kids. It's Atheism. The e comes first, then the i.