When Atheists Judge You

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When I was pregnant with my first child I was young,unmarried, and because I was so liberal, rather proud of myself. I had afeeling she would be a boy. Yes, she.I was totally wrong. But at the time, I was convinced she was a boy. I was incollege at the time--literature major--and many of the professors wereman-hating Christian-hating, loaded with "white guilt," liberals. Myhistory professor was one of the worst. "White, Christian males are bad.They're responsible for all of the ills of the world." When you'rehormonal, thinking you're carrying a white male in your belly, this is hard totake. My unborn baby had already been judged unfit. Maybe it was all of thetears I'd shed after that class, but the liberal scales started to fall from myeyes. These people who always said Christians were judgmental, well, weren'tthey being judgmental themselves?
In my experience, atheists verbally attack Christians,not for behaving as Christians, oddly enough, but for behaving as atheists. Withthe rise of the internet, they have a whole new arena in which to work.
Obviously I'm not talking all atheists. The majority don't bring up matters of faith, or whenthey do pop up, they're respectful, open minded, and judge people asindividuals rather than preconceived stereotypes. Sadly, the atheist"haters"(people who comment on blogs, on YouTube, at a party, etc. forthe sole purpose of saying hateful things), are so much more in-your-face thanyour average atheist that you must remind yourself that the average atheist isin fact, behaving quite like a Christian. In this post, I'm not talking aboutthose atheists.
So, what are things atheists criticize? Typically, notpraying, though they do scoff at our faith, as if they didn't have faith inanything unproven. They conveniently forget that Darwinian evolution is only atheory. (BTW, Catholics are free to believe in evolution. See below)*
They criticize us for behaving as atheists. They latchonto the stereotype of a judgmental, self-righteous, hateful person with noroom in his/her heart for love. They assume our faith is without reason andthat we haven't thought it through. And they accuse us of being robots with nomind of our own. Essentially, Hate-filledrobots. That would make a catchy band name.
Maybe there are mean Christians, but I daresay they areChristian only in name. A person with genuine faith in Christ tries to puttheir whole life into living with His values: love, humility, generosity, stewardshipover the earth, self-sacrifice. Yes, sometimes we fail. We get grumpy and snapat somebody. We give in to selfishness. We're not perfect. But it's not becauseof our religion that we behave badly, as the atheist believes-- without proof ;-) but when we go against our religious principles.
The atheist view is that we're all just jumbles of cellsformed into animals by chance. The species popped up and thrived because someindividuals happened to be more fit than others. And we have no souls.
 Why do "hater"atheists not simply shrug when they see a Christian behaving as if we're allanimals and that survival of the fittest is the rule of the day? Shouldn't theybe happy to see somebody living those values? No. Because deep down, they knowwe were made for more. They recognize evil and good in spite of their disbelief in God. They know in their hearts therein a standard for GOOD that human society didn't invent. It's withoutscientific explanation. It doesn't match their proposed worldview. But theycannot ignore the inner sense of right and wrong put into them by The Creator.
But why do they attack random Christians with false judgments?Christians who may be good people? Why not get to know somebody before seeingthem only as a stereotype? Maybe some atheists were hurt by a bad Christian. Andwe all know if you're harmed, by all means, hate everyone from that religion,ethnic group, or gender for the rest of your life and teach that hatred to yourchildren and students so they can pass it on to theirs. :p
As for Christianity being without reason. Well, can'tknow that without investigation. Some Christians simply know it's true, but can't tell you why. Many of these are beautifullyclose to our Lord and very good people in the best sense of the word good. Others have examined and studiedtheir faith and have figured out there is very good reason for it. I'll go intothat on another post. This one has grown longer than I usually like.
But if you do want proofs of God's existence, please seePeter Kreeft's website.

*God created all things. He is the prime mover. If hewants to create a new species out of a preexisting one, He can. And worlds betterthan we can, I gather from the evidence. We've bred flies like you wouldn'tbelieve and all the scientists could see were more flies. We've bred dogs. Weget quite a variety from mastiffs and cockapoos, but they never evolve intoanything but dogs. If evolution created species, then it wasn't by chance.