Do Christians Understand Why People Don't Believe Them?

Lack of faith isn't a virtue and is also ignorant. I do have a reason for believing

No it's not, as is evidenced in this thread.


This question can only be abswered by those who have faith.

It might be a good idea to stop accusing me of stuff you don't know and then I wouldn't have to correct you or as you say "divert" you. Statements like this are proof that, and I'm saying this in the nicest way possible, that theophobiacs are stupid.

This is anther reason that theophobiacs are Trump level idiots.

Rather than acknowledge that which is clearly observable in the thread, that I misunderstood what was being discussed, you instead have to become a liar simply to call me a liar over an extremely stupid argument that you are not even capable of arguing about.

I was even egging you on to expound further, but you were too stupid to pick up on it and instead decided to pay the lie card.

You, sir, are a moron and I dare you to reply to me again so that I can continue to relentlessly insult you.

No, lack of faith means you have to have evidence because you don't understand something. If there was evidence there would be no need for faith and you don't understand God. I see evidence of God and His creations all around us. 

From the viewpoint of inductive-deductive probabilistic reasoning (including parsimoniousness) and Bayesian philosophy, both of which are reflected at a fundamental level in the scientific mindset, lack of faith is a virtue. A lesser virtue than keeping faith apart from hypothesis testing and data interpretation, but a virtue nonetheless.

That being said,

That's not an accurate description of your behavior. You have cast all evidence about TG people and their lives aside, and instead have chosen to maintain your own preset beliefs about them, about how they should live and about how they should or should not be treated by society. How isn't it faith? It certainly isn't learning, that I can assure you, and I can also assure you that it goes far beyond just "making up an answer". It's making up an answer that goes against all the available data (that is, the official answer provided both by science and by basic human rights) and that actually endangers thousands of people around the globe, and then imposing such an answer, by legal and social influence, on the way these people are allowed to live.

By itself, faith in God, life forces or any other spiritual entities is completely harmless. Your faith, like that professed by fundamentalist and right-wing religious people who try to endanger these same groups and the secularism of Western politics, is not. 

 Nah, it's just more evidence that you'll look for any excuse to field your "heathen" or "theophobic" crybabying and other epithetin' to try to assuage your many bouts of acute aggrievement.


However, this word is no big deal. It took me forever to find it after being chastised for using the h-word.

As everyone in that thread agreed, you didn't ask questions. You implied TG people should accept their chromosomal type and the original form of their bodies, and that they were damaging themselves by accepting their identity. People then, including me, proceeded to give you all the evidence against your rule (which is an imposition, by the way) over their behavior and the irrational beliefs behind it, and you disregarded everything without any evidence. Why? Because they didn’t make you feel anything different. You are moved by faith alone, no reason nor science there. The things you implied are, yes, discussions about government policy (unless we lived in an abstract world where no discussion on practical issues that are a government’s responsibility ever becomes concrete, which is not the case), beyond of course already being, by themselves, expressions of social transphobia, which, yes, also impact society. All of this endangers TG people, and what makes no sense is your irrational belief that these things have no impact whatsoever.


Nothing of this is faith in God by itself, which was what I referred to. Yes, other beliefs that often accompany faith in God and religion are in fact harmful, but they are not a given. There are progressive religious people with liberal political beliefs, you know? And they are far more progressive than you. So no, faith in God is not harmful by itself. According to the viewpoint I mentioned, it's a bad guess, but not necessarily a harmful one by itself. Your faith, however, is just as harmful as the examples you provided above. It drives policies that lead people to suicide, discrimination and violence, and it is itself a social expression of discrimination and identity denial.