Reply #239: Insult, No. Challenge - Yes [View All]

[NashVegas]

Depends, too.

Say you have someone who's atheist for no other reason than they've never been raised in a church or otherwise indoctrinated. Perhaps, indoctrinated to believe in the negative.

A Christian, or any religious person, may challenge this atheist to rethink their beliefs, or lack of them. "I challenge you to see what I think is there."

Likewise, an atheist who came to their philosophy through their own rationalism, would challenge any religious person whose views came to them not from their own logic, but that they were trained to. "I challenge you to look again and be sure it's there."