To me those are religious insults. I’ve heard the “I’ll Pray For You” & “Jesus Died For Your Sins” remark more times than I can count. The Christian saying them isn’t trying to empathize with our position because they’re hinting that “you’re going to hell if you don’t believe in HIM”
That or they’re insulting you and rubbing it in that they’re going to their imaginary “heaven” and you’re not. It’s kind of like saying “If you don’t believe in my god then fuck you.” to which I would reply “fuck you too buddy” If they want you to believe in their god then they have a Burden of Proof and they need to prove with objective evidence that their god is real. I have no reason to believe in any kind of deity let alone practice a religion that promotes a god or gods.
The “you don’t believe in god so you’re going to hell” remarks It really doesn’t mean anything to me anymore because I concluded a long time ago that all deities were fictional. There’s no evidence of any kind. That’s like saying If you don’t believe in Santa Claus, he’s not going to bring you anything for Christmas.
I agree with you Bob, most Christians do show a total ignorance of what Atheism is. Most of them won’t even look up the definition because they don’t agree with it. It doesn’t fit in with their bs religious views.
A lot of Christians really don’t know what Atheism is. They think they do. But from what they’ve explained to me after I’ve told them that I was an Atheist and I didn’t believe in their god they go onto tell me their bullshit home brewed version of “Atheism” is that we secretly believe; that we’re rebelling against their “god”, they think we’re mad at the “lord” ,that we just want to be dirty, that we have the devil in us, or that we’re witches. All of which is pure bullshit.
The true definition is that Atheism is the disbelief in the existence of deities and the rejection of all religion and superstitious belief.