Why do athesists ask for prayers

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Anonymous wrote:It's pretty sick that OP is playing gotcha with someone who is dying. What sort of evil religious is she?

It’s pretty sick that you’re making up sick scenarios about an anonymous poster based on zero info about her. What’s wrong with you?

OP literally described what she's doing. It's sick behavior.

Where? When? You’re fantasizing.

Can you even read. She described it. Evil. Her poor friend is dying and all she cares about is "gotcha!"

NP here and I agree. What a terrible friend. I hope cancer victim is not on dcum to see how her “friend” is responding to her sharing her very difficult news.

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Pretty shitty

OP asked a question to understand her atheist friend. You twisting this into something nefarious is the “gotcha.” But you probably can’t see what the rest of us see about your manipulation here.

NP.

"The rest of us?" Ahahaha.

You may not be on your own, but I -- like several other posters -- am appalled at OP.

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I’m not quite “appalled” but OP clearly disrespecting her friend.

How is trying to understand her friend, by asking here instead of confronting her friend, disrespecting her friend?

DP. If an atheist came to this forum and titled a post "Why do Christians give up on their beliefs?" and then proceeded to talk about how a supposedly dear, dying friend had confessed that she didn't believe in God anymore on her deathbed and asked for help processing that, I would also think that poster was an asshat like OP is. Anyone who uses the statements of a dying friend as a "gotcha" moment is vile.

I've been called the "thoughtful atheist" on several threads in the past because I will disagree with anti-Christian atheist trolls if they show up. Here I think OP is equivalent of those trolls (and so are you). You are no better than the anti-Christian trolls. OPs behavior is terrible and should be called out for what it is. If you were actually living your Christian beliefs, you would see that.

I’m not a Christian. And I wouldn’t have any problem with an atheist showing up here and asking about a dying religious friend who had given up on faith. It’s a natural question. The answer might be something like, the friend couldn’t believe in a god who seemed to punish her, or who would leave her kids motherless, or something similar. Just like the thoughtful answers to OP have been along the lines of how there’s a spectrum of atheism to agnosticism and OP’s friend may not be a 100% atheist. There’s nothing wrong in asking these questions, and nothing wrong with answering them thoughtfully.

That's not what OP did, though. And you are mischaracterizing and/or ignoring the answers of many thoughtful posters, I assume for your own ends, so I am going to continue to classify you as similar to the anti-Christian atheist trolls. I am often on here defending religion even though I am atheist, but here I think OP (and you) are acting as badly as the atheist trolls you undoubtedly scream about regularly. It's gross.

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Anonymous wrote:It's pretty sick that OP is playing gotcha with someone who is dying. What sort of evil religious is she?

It’s pretty sick that you’re making up sick scenarios about an anonymous poster based on zero info about her. What’s wrong with you?

OP literally described what she's doing. It's sick behavior.

Where? When? You’re fantasizing.

Can you even read. She described it. Evil. Her poor friend is dying and all she cares about is "gotcha!"

NP here and I agree. What a terrible friend. I hope cancer victim is not on dcum to see how her “friend” is responding to her sharing her very difficult news.

+1

Pretty shitty

OP asked a question to understand her atheist friend. You twisting this into something nefarious is the “gotcha.” But you probably can’t see what the rest of us see about your manipulation here.

NP.

"The rest of us?" Ahahaha.

You may not be on your own, but I -- like several other posters -- am appalled at OP.

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I’m not quite “appalled” but OP clearly disrespecting her friend.

How is trying to understand her friend, by asking here instead of confronting her friend, disrespecting her friend?

How did she explain the request from her “friend” and how did OP ask her question? How did she title the thread?

Stop embarrassing yourself. If you realized how petty and small-minded your deliberate spins on op and the silly language quibble look to the rest of us, you’d stop right now.

What language quibble?

I’ll just leave your illiteracy out there for all to see. Ciao.

What "illiteracy"? Timestamp?

Or.......perhaps......you are attributing many posts to a single poster? Dumb a$$.

Get a real hobby. You’re an embarrassment to atheists everywhere.

So no timestamps, huh? As expected. We all know PP is full of shit.

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Anonymous wrote:It's pretty sick that OP is playing gotcha with someone who is dying. What sort of evil religious is she?

It’s pretty sick that you’re making up sick scenarios about an anonymous poster based on zero info about her. What’s wrong with you?

OP literally described what she's doing. It's sick behavior.

Where? When? You’re fantasizing.

Can you even read. She described it. Evil. Her poor friend is dying and all she cares about is "gotcha!"

NP here and I agree. What a terrible friend. I hope cancer victim is not on dcum to see how her “friend” is responding to her sharing her very difficult news.

+1

Pretty shitty

OP asked a question to understand her atheist friend. You twisting this into something nefarious is the “gotcha.” But you probably can’t see what the rest of us see about your manipulation here.

NP.

"The rest of us?" Ahahaha.

You may not be on your own, but I -- like several other posters -- am appalled at OP.

+1

I’m not quite “appalled” but OP clearly disrespecting her friend.

How is trying to understand her friend, by asking here instead of confronting her friend, disrespecting her friend?

DP. If an atheist came to this forum and titled a post "Why do Christians give up on their beliefs?" and then proceeded to talk about how a supposedly dear, dying friend had confessed that she didn't believe in God anymore on her deathbed and asked for help processing that, I would also think that poster was an asshat like OP is. Anyone who uses the statements of a dying friend as a "gotcha" moment is vile.

I've been called the "thoughtful atheist" on several threads in the past because I will disagree with anti-Christian atheist trolls if they show up. Here I think OP is equivalent of those trolls (and so are you). You are no better than the anti-Christian trolls. OPs behavior is terrible and should be called out for what it is. If you were actually living your Christian beliefs, you would see that.

I’m not a Christian. And I wouldn’t have any problem with an atheist showing up here and asking about a dying religious friend who had given up on faith. It’s a natural question. The answer might be something like, the friend couldn’t believe in a god who seemed to punish her, or who would leave her kids motherless, or something similar. Just like the thoughtful answers to OP have been along the lines of how there’s a spectrum of atheism to agnosticism and OP’s friend may not be a 100% atheist. There’s nothing wrong in asking these questions, and nothing wrong with answering them thoughtfully.

That's not what OP did, though. And you are mischaracterizing and/or ignoring the answers of many thoughtful posters, I assume for your own ends, so I am going to continue to classify you as similar to the anti-Christian atheist trolls. I am often on here defending religion even though I am atheist, but here I think OP (and you) are acting as badly as the atheist trolls you undoubtedly scream about regularly. It's gross.

PP here. To add on, I used to post a lot more and when it came up I would engage against anti-religion trolls even as an atheist. But I don't any more because some of the the religious posters on this forum are now as trollish as some of the atheists. I don't want to engage with trolls of any type. OP is just another religious troll.

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Anonymous wrote:It's pretty sick that OP is playing gotcha with someone who is dying. What sort of evil religious is she?

It’s pretty sick that you’re making up sick scenarios about an anonymous poster based on zero info about her. What’s wrong with you?

OP literally described what she's doing. It's sick behavior.

Where? When? You’re fantasizing.

Can you even read. She described it. Evil. Her poor friend is dying and all she cares about is "gotcha!"

NP here and I agree. What a terrible friend. I hope cancer victim is not on dcum to see how her “friend” is responding to her sharing her very difficult news.

+1

Pretty shitty

OP asked a question to understand her atheist friend. You twisting this into something nefarious is the “gotcha.” But you probably can’t see what the rest of us see about your manipulation here.

NP.

"The rest of us?" Ahahaha.

You may not be on your own, but I -- like several other posters -- am appalled at OP.

+1

I’m not quite “appalled” but OP clearly disrespecting her friend.

How is trying to understand her friend, by asking here instead of confronting her friend, disrespecting her friend?

DP. If an atheist came to this forum and titled a post "Why do Christians give up on their beliefs?" and then proceeded to talk about how a supposedly dear, dying friend had confessed that she didn't believe in God anymore on her deathbed and asked for help processing that, I would also think that poster was an asshat like OP is. Anyone who uses the statements of a dying friend as a "gotcha" moment is vile.

I've been called the "thoughtful atheist" on several threads in the past because I will disagree with anti-Christian atheist trolls if they show up. Here I think OP is equivalent of those trolls (and so are you). You are no better than the anti-Christian trolls. OPs behavior is terrible and should be called out for what it is. If you were actually living your Christian beliefs, you would see that.

I’m not a Christian. And I wouldn’t have any problem with an atheist showing up here and asking about a dying religious friend who had given up on faith. It’s a natural question. The answer might be something like, the friend couldn’t believe in a god who seemed to punish her, or who would leave her kids motherless, or something similar. Just like the thoughtful answers to OP have been along the lines of how there’s a spectrum of atheism to agnosticism and OP’s friend may not be a 100% atheist. There’s nothing wrong in asking these questions, and nothing wrong with answering them thoughtfully.

That's not what OP did, though. And you are mischaracterizing and/or ignoring the answers of many thoughtful posters, I assume for your own ends, so I am going to continue to classify you as similar to the anti-Christian atheist trolls. I am often on here defending religion even though I am atheist, but here I think OP (and you) are acting as badly as the atheist trolls you undoubtedly scream about regularly. It's gross.

PP here. To add on, I used to post a lot more and when it came up I would engage against anti-religion trolls even as an atheist. But I don't any more because some of the the religious posters on this forum are now as trollish as some of the atheists. I don't want to engage with trolls of any type. OP is just another religious troll.

I don’t read into the OP what you say you read. I think you’re overthinking this.

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Well, if I am overthinking this, I am by far not the only one who reacted that way. Personally I cannot imagine using the suffering of a friend in that manner. It's awful and I am surprised anyone thoughtful (religious or not) would defend it.

The fact is that this forum has had an influx of trolls, both atheist and religious. You are religious and don't want to see the religious trolls like OP, but they've taken over this forum as much as the idiotic smiley face atheist and her compatriots have.

It's unfortunate.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Well, if I am overthinking this, I am by far not the only one who reacted that way. Personally I cannot imagine using the suffering of a friend in that manner. It's awful and I am surprised anyone thoughtful (religious or not) would defend it.

The fact is that this forum has had an influx of trolls, both atheist and religious. You are religious and don't want to see the religious trolls like OP, but they've taken over this forum as much as the idiotic smiley face atheist and her compatriots have.

It's unfortunate.

The "idiotic smiley face atheist" persona was formed when the religious trolls were more interested in hurling insults than responding to facts, research, and logic. They reaped what they sowed.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Well, if I am overthinking this, I am by far not the only one who reacted that way. Personally I cannot imagine using the suffering of a friend in that manner. It's awful and I am surprised anyone thoughtful (religious or not) would defend it.

The fact is that this forum has had an influx of trolls, both atheist and religious. You are religious and don't want to see the religious trolls like OP, but they've taken over this forum as much as the idiotic smiley face atheist and her compatriots have.

It's unfortunate.

My read is that the people who agree with you are the 1-2 atheist trolls who high-five each other for every perceived slam against faith, so I wouldn’t put a lot of weight on that.

I do appreciate that you try to be reasonable on this forum, and thanks for that. We’ll just have to disagree about OP’s motives. She seems to be long gone anyway, so maybe it’s time to drop this.

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Anonymous wrote:Well, if I am overthinking this, I am by far not the only one who reacted that way. Personally I cannot imagine using the suffering of a friend in that manner. It's awful and I am surprised anyone thoughtful (religious or not) would defend it.

The fact is that this forum has had an influx of trolls, both atheist and religious. You are religious and don't want to see the religious trolls like OP, but they've taken over this forum as much as the idiotic smiley face atheist and her compatriots have.

It's unfortunate.

My read is that the people who agree with you are the 1-2 atheist trolls who high-five each other for every perceived slam against faith, so I wouldn’t put a lot of weight on that.

I do appreciate that you try to be reasonable on this forum, and thanks for that. We’ll just have to disagree about OP’s motives. She seems to be long gone anyway, so maybe it’s time to drop this.

Sorry, no. You cannot just decide that anyone who reasonably disagrees with you must be an atheist troll. That's trollish behavior itself. The fact is that there have been multiple reasonable posters in this thread who think OPs post was pretty awful. Being unwilling to acknowledge that is one of the reasons the religious trolls on this forum have proliferated. I miss the days when this forum wasn't populated mostly by religious and atheist trolls, but pretending that there aren't both just makes the problem worse. Your unwillingness to even acknowledge (even if you don't agree) that reasonable people could find OPs behavior trollish and awful is just going to encourage more religious trolls.

In any case, I am giving up and going back to ignoring the forum.

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Anonymous wrote:Well, if I am overthinking this, I am by far not the only one who reacted that way. Personally I cannot imagine using the suffering of a friend in that manner. It's awful and I am surprised anyone thoughtful (religious or not) would defend it.

The fact is that this forum has had an influx of trolls, both atheist and religious. You are religious and don't want to see the religious trolls like OP, but they've taken over this forum as much as the idiotic smiley face atheist and her compatriots have.

It's unfortunate.

My read is that the people who agree with you are the 1-2 atheist trolls who high-five each other for every perceived slam against faith, so I wouldn’t put a lot of weight on that.

I do appreciate that you try to be reasonable on this forum, and thanks for that. We’ll just have to disagree about OP’s motives. She seems to be long gone anyway, so maybe it’s time to drop this.

Sorry, no. You cannot just decide that anyone who reasonably disagrees with you must be an atheist troll. That's trollish behavior itself. The fact is that there have been multiple reasonable posters in this thread who think OPs post was pretty awful. Being unwilling to acknowledge that is one of the reasons the religious trolls on this forum have proliferated. I miss the days when this forum wasn't populated mostly by religious and atheist trolls, but pretending that there aren't both just makes the problem worse. Your unwillingness to even acknowledge (even if you don't agree) that reasonable people could find OPs behavior trollish and awful is just going to encourage more religious trolls.

In any case, I am giving up and going back to ignoring the forum.

We disagree. So be it.

[Anonymous]

Op, why not ask her?

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Anonymous wrote:It's pretty sick that OP is playing gotcha with someone who is dying. What sort of evil religious is she?

It’s pretty sick that you’re making up sick scenarios about an anonymous poster based on zero info about her. What’s wrong with you?

OP literally described what she's doing. It's sick behavior.

Where? When? You’re fantasizing.

Can you even read. She described it. Evil. Her poor friend is dying and all she cares about is "gotcha!"

NP here and I agree. What a terrible friend. I hope cancer victim is not on dcum to see how her “friend” is responding to her sharing her very difficult news.

+1

Pretty shitty

OP asked a question to understand her atheist friend. You twisting this into something nefarious is the “gotcha.” But you probably can’t see what the rest of us see about your manipulation here.

NP.

"The rest of us?" Ahahaha.

You may not be on your own, but I -- like several other posters -- am appalled at OP.

+1

I’m not quite “appalled” but OP clearly disrespecting her friend.

How is trying to understand her friend, by asking here instead of confronting her friend, disrespecting her friend?

DP. If an atheist came to this forum and titled a post "Why do Christians give up on their beliefs?" and then proceeded to talk about how a supposedly dear, dying friend had confessed that she didn't believe in God anymore on her deathbed and asked for help processing that, I would also think that poster was an asshat like OP is. Anyone who uses the statements of a dying friend as a "gotcha" moment is vile.

I've been called the "thoughtful atheist" on several threads in the past because I will disagree with anti-Christian atheist trolls if they show up. Here I think OP is equivalent of those trolls (and so are you). You are no better than the anti-Christian trolls. OPs behavior is terrible and should be called out for what it is. If you were actually living your Christian beliefs, you would see that.

I’m not a Christian. And I wouldn’t have any problem with an atheist showing up here and asking about a dying religious friend who had given up on faith. It’s a natural question. The answer might be something like, the friend couldn’t believe in a god who seemed to punish her, or who would leave her kids motherless, or something similar. Just like the thoughtful answers to OP have been along the lines of how there’s a spectrum of atheism to agnosticism and OP’s friend may not be a 100% atheist. There’s nothing wrong in asking these questions, and nothing wrong with answering them thoughtfully.

That's not what OP did, though. And you are mischaracterizing and/or ignoring the answers of many thoughtful posters, I assume for your own ends, so I am going to continue to classify you as similar to the anti-Christian atheist trolls. I am often on here defending religion even though I am atheist, but here I think OP (and you) are acting as badly as the atheist trolls you undoubtedly scream about regularly. It's gross.

PP here. To add on, I used to post a lot more and when it came up I would engage against anti-religion trolls even as an atheist. But I don't any more because some of the the religious posters on this forum are now as trollish as some of the atheists. I don't want to engage with trolls of any type. OP is just another religious troll.

I don’t read into the OP what you say you read. I think you’re overthinking this.

+1. I agree it's a natural question, just like an atheist asking about a religious friend who lost her faith would be a natural question. PP is overthinking this.