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>>546352

>How do you deal with any doubts of God existing?

I pray.

>have you encountered pushy atheists

Now and then, yes; but no more than pushy anything (vegans, christians, hare krishnas).

>how did you deal with them?

I shrug and move on. I don't bother engaging with those who already have an agenda gouged into their hearts. I let go and let God.

>>546352

>How do you deal with any doubts of God existing?

Ultimately, if God does not exist you're not "behind" an Atheist in terms of after life.

That said, too many things point to a God, some sort of Greater Mind.

You can always try prayer, if it's directed towards Godly things, there are much higher chances of being answered.

>have you encountered pushy atheists and how did you deal with them?

Ignore

>especially atheist "riddles"?

Register them and try to figure them out. They often are easier than it looks to dismantle.

>>546379

ok the one i encountered was who created god

and the god rock thing

>>546352

>How do you deal with any doubts of God existing?

Don't have any. God granted me tons of faith. It's pretty cool. Once, in fifteen years of faith, I had a long debate with an atheist and, on the the drive I thought "what if he's right?" followed immediately by "naw, that's bullshit." Lord forgive me for the first thought.

>have you encountered pushy atheists and how did you deal with them?

I used to be more patient. Now I only argue with atheists if there's an audience of on-the-fencers. In which case I make them rage out at God (using subtle condemnation of their lifestyles and comparing their supposed "morality" with their actual actions) at which point they basically beat themselves.

>especially atheist "riddles"?

Tell me whichever ones you've got, I'll tell you the solutions. The solutions are never sufficient to atheists, the solutions calm Christians right away, however.

>>546352

>>546352

>How do you deal with any doubts of God existing?

First I don't allow the waves of doubts to wash away my foundation in God; so I try to recognize the core reason why I'm doubting, and not lean to my own understanding/conclusions. How I do this is by gathering the data related to that said reason, since Christianity has existed for nearly two millenniums, there's a good chance someone has already addressed the problem. Do Not Allow Your Doubt To Linger!

>have you encountered pushy atheists and how did you deal with them? especially atheist "riddles"?

Admittedly when it comes to people's worldviews I lean to the presuppositionalist mindset. I find it the most helpful with epistemology and emotional typology when dealing with atheists, because half of the time they don't use critical analysis to debate, rather emotional slander (e.g. God is like Santa Claus maymay).

Second, atheists don't have any objective basis for morality, so to assert that an eternal being, like God, is dependent upon a subjective, (relatively) recent view of morality is nonsensical.

But most of the time I just post this to them http://textuploader.com/dlrfw and hope for the best.

>How do you deal with any doubts of God existing?

I take a deep breath of oxygen that would not exist unless some immaterial, infinite and eternal mind supported it, which is proven by bible authors by Faith, St. Thomas by Reason and finally by modern science empircally.

Ad this mind cannot be other than God.

>have you encountered pushy atheists and how did you deal with them?

With Reason. 95% of time though it's not atheism per se, it's aecclesiaism or rather antiecclesiaism. And when reason fails with them (which is not uncanny), I go into memes. It works wonders for they cannot bear good ol' catholic memes

>especially atheist "riddles"?

The riddle game is weak and flawious. We got better riddles.