Cocaine

Cocaine is a very powerful stimulant. Users feel euphoria and complete self-confidence. It overflows your brain with dopamine making everything full of pleasure. Some believe it causes superhuman strength and abilities... others believe you just try more impossible stuff because of the euphoria and self-confidence boost it gives you.

After you experience atheism you get this realization... “OMG, atheism is free cocaine!” and, AND not only is it free but it has no dangerous side effects AND the trip never ends. I’m not really sure if atheism gives you superhuman abilities, but HOLY COW do I ever try and learn new things! It gives you the ability to deal with your own problems and it helps you understand others. The whole entire world makes sense. Never feel sorry for an atheist, they probably are doing just fine... They very well could be doing better than you.

Now you understand why “ministering” to an atheist or person struggling with faith is so difficult. Once the person has made it to the point of atheism... scare tactic won’t work..... convincing the person they “need” Jesus won’t work... Blaming them for walking away from god certainly won’t work either. They are self sufficient. You are dealing with a person who through their struggles has spent countless nights reading the Bible, philosophers, and any other bit of information they could get their hands on. They also have probably spent more time talking to God than anyone. A comfortable Christian will NEVER win an argument against an atheist. “In some awful, strange, paradoxical way, atheists tend to take religion more seriously than the practitioners.”

What now?

Remember my pain didn’t “drive” me to atheism. My heart didn’t harden and therefore I turned to not believing. I was broke first, and then atheism saved me. Think about it.