Christians who are completely caught up in their religious beliefs sometimes have trouble understanding why someone else would fail to agree with them. They regard their religion, doctrines, and traditions as so obviously true that it's inconceivable that a person could take a serious look at them without ultimately accepting them. Assuming that the atheist isn't an idiot or being perverse, then the most viable conclusion to draw from their disbelief is that they are ignorant of the facts.

 

Read Article: Myth: Atheists Have Just Never Heard an Intelligent Defense of Christianity

Many common myths about theism imply that there is a contradiction between being an atheist and being optimistic. If there is no afterlife, how can atheists have hope for the future? If atheists cannot be moral, how can they have hope for humanity? The reality is that atheists can be optimistic, can be moral, and can have hope for the future.

Theists' inability to figure out why should lead them to consider that they are operating from false assumptions, but instead it usually leads them to deny reality and insist that atheists conform to the theists' ideological expectations. Even when they don't do this, though, they still make curious mistakes about atheists and atheism. Read more...