I can think of a number of reasons:
- curiosity
- overwhelming desire to convert the converted
- intellectual challenge
- seeking TRUTH™
- Learn what they believe and how it is defended
- other
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Maybe you missed the point of the question. Why are you, an atheist, interested in debating Christianity online?Cephus wrote:I'm only going to answer the second question. I'm here because the %#^%s at America's Debate closed down their religion debate section because they didn't personally like what was going on. Then again, I have little respect for their policies or the people running America's Debate, CD&R seems to be a heck of a lot better than AD ever was, without the utterly stupid site-politics and ridiculous policies.
No, I didn't miss it, just making a comment.McCulloch wrote:Maybe you missed the point of the question. Why are you, an atheist, interested in debating Christianity online?
ouch! There are probably some of that in both camps.OccamsRazor wrote:I wonder how many people here (i.e. in the A-room), do it, rightly or wrongly, because they enjoy p***ing theists off. I think that there is always a little schadenfreude involved in really upsetting someone by challenging their beliefs.
Oh absolutely! I don't doubt that.McCulloch wrote:ouch! There are probably some of that in both camps.
I enjoy it immensely!OccamsRazor wrote:I wonder how many people here (i.e. in the A-room), do it, rightly or wrongly, because they enjoy p***ing theists off. I think that there is always a little schadenfreude involved in really upsetting someone by challenging their beliefs.
As a student of religion for most of my life and a recovering Christian, it is the Orwellian truth and the logicide that mostly concerns me.Whenever I see their form of 'scholarship' anywhere outside of this MB I am reminded of just how dangerous Orwellian 'Truth' really is.
Not I. Doing it just to piss people off is really kind of silly and immature. Now if, in getting pissed off, they actually start *THINKING*, that's different, it has a good outcome and a little anger and upset that leads to more rational thinking isn't really a bad thing.OccamsRazor wrote:I wonder how many people here (i.e. in the A-room), do it, rightly or wrongly, because they enjoy p***ing theists off. I think that there is always a little schadenfreude involved in really upsetting someone by challenging their beliefs.