Goodlife:
Fair point, I agree. I do however have several gripes with what they are trying to spread.
Their doctrines are wrong, using their 'what the bible really teaches' booklet. And moreover, what comes first with them, the Watchtower literature or the bible.
When I was studying with them, the Watchtower literature came out first and told us what to read in the bible. Even then it wasn't correct. Jumping from book to book and placing passages from the OT mixed with the NT making up a story that doesn't exist.
As pretty a picture it painted that we will all come back to life when the 144,000 are chosen we will (christians) all be reunited with our loved one.
More to the point I did say to them that we were doing disservice to the authors of the books by not letting them say what they wanted to say.
Sheer ludacris I said.
dabees:
I don't believe (without proof) anyone is an atheist. My girlfriend says she is an "atheist", there is always, always even if the spark is not viewable to others that the thought of a creator(s) or thought of "what if" after death. Everybody has it.
can an atheist prove there is nothing? When even the top scientists cannot make a 100% connection of evolution to humans, and Clergy cannot prove that there is a God?
I am very agnostic, bordering on the "atheist" side, that there is no afterlife etc, which is why I very much read the Stoics, because like the rest of the world danees, no one can prove concrete evidence to either side.