Converts...from Islam to Christianity?

[LittleGrizzly]

I can see how the goggles can be insulting and complimentary depending on how you take it...

for example go to the swimming pool and your goggles actually distort your vision, until you get underwater when they make you see clearly....

though goggles generally enable you to see better whereas a blindfold definetly hampers your vision... though tbh thier both just terms, if some reasonable made logical post by a christian mentioned an atheist blindfold i wouldn't think twice on it, some post insulting those who do not believe in god mentioning it would probably irk me a little, i would say it should apply the same to god goggles...

[Philippus Flavius Homovallumus]

Iv been thinking about it. How are goggles offensive? Basically the term "god goggles" is reffering to the perspective of looking through life as everything guided by god's "plan" and that he is looking over you. Without them you see the world literally as it is, with them you see through a glass (the glass being the theistic worldview).

The first time I heard the term was when a former theist now atheist said he took them off and was scared for the first few moments, then learned to accept the world without them.

Now a blindfold implies you dont see anything, goggles on the other hand you can see things as clearly as everyone else.

I can see how the goggles can be insulting and complimentary depending on how you take it...

for example go to the swimming pool and your goggles actually distort your vision, until you get underwater when they make you see clearly....

though goggles generally enable you to see better whereas a blindfold definetly hampers your vision... though tbh thier both just terms, if some reasonable made logical post by a christian mentioned an atheist blindfold i wouldn't think twice on it, some post insulting those who do not believe in god mentioning it would probably irk me a little, i would say it should apply the same to god goggles...

Goggles imply an altered state of vision/need for visual assistance, I do not consider that I have either. It is exactly the same as "rose tinted glasses". I used the blindfold analogy because that is often how atheists appear to me, another common trope is that you walk around with your eyes closed.

Since we are speaking from two different worldviews we should avoid loaded turns of phrase, "atheist blindfold" and "God goggles" are two such terms. I'm not personally offended, I'm just warning you that some people probably will take offense.