People who think God doesn’t exist, Can you explain a color blind guy what is blue?

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Silas_153 · Accepted Answer

The point that is being made here, a point that so many below are apparently not getting, is that trying to explain the reality of God's existence to an atheist is like trying to explain the concept of colour to someone who has only ever seen shades of black, white and grey. That is, you cannot, because atheists don't have the mental capacity to understand abstract concepts, because they're all autistic.

J2ohhhhh · Accepted Answer

Atheism is just an other religion.

NyceGuyFinishingLast · Answer

Most of the people on hear need to read the question. It is a color blind guy not a blind guy.

But, also I don't understand the question. One has nothing to do with the other unless you are talking about God creating a person that isn't color blind to help describe the color blue to a color blind person. But, still missing how this whole thing is relevant.

I think if there is a God, he gets more credit than he deserves. If there was a God, why did he allow my brother's adoptive father to rape him most of his childhood? Why did he allow all these people to die from a virus? Why does he let bad things happen to his herd of sheep? Why would he allow all the innocent children to be force into sex slavery for older men? Honestly, when does God step in to help?

Honestly, I get tired of hearing the praising of God when something good happens but when something bad happens it is God's will. God did not wake me up this morning, my alarm clock did. God did not get me my job, that was my friends and my skills. God doesn't light up my house, that happens when I flip on the switch. Supplied by the power company that is not named Thy Holy Devine Power.

When are people going to have more faith in themselves and stop believing in a person or being that never has been proven to exist? The bible was written by man, seriously check the credentials printed on the book. Does it say God Little Print Shop in Heaven?

Where was God when my mother died giving birth to my brother? Where was God when my father died alone while he was walking to get exercise? There are countless people that need some type of help and cannot get it because people are unknowing. But, God knows all and has a plan for everyone. So when a woman gets raped and possibly murdered, was that in God's plan? Was that God's will? A lady that was like a second mother to me was stricken down with cancer. I watched her suffer day in and day out with immense pain and she was a faithful sheep towards God. She kept telling us that she was ready to go to heaven. Is that what God wants to torture is to see if we still want into Seasame Street? If that is his plan then count me out.

God created hell for all non-saved people. People that could be considered a saint for not doing any wrong their entire life but because they choose not to be a believer they are damned to burn for all eternity. But, yet when a convicted murderer is about to be put to death he gets a hail Mary before he is cast from this existence to get into heaven. So why love sin free your whole life if you can get saved at the end? Why not just wait until the end?

CountessSarah · Answer

The problem is that a blind person doesn't just take it on faith that other people can see - Sighted people can prove to the blind person that they can see by performing tasks that would be impossible for the blind person to replicate.
Now, the blind person will never have a real concept of colour, but they can at least be secure in the knowledge that it actually exists based on the demonstrated phenomenon of sighted people around them.

Now, the theist talking to the atheist, has no such ability to demonstrate their claim. The atheist asks for evidence that this god exists and the theist repeatedly turns up empty handed. If a god actually existed, it would be readily apparent and easily observable, yet evidence is always suspiciously lacking.

I could go on to point out that the atheist also isn't lacking any sort of sense. With a blind person we can test to find out if they are lacking the sense of sight, or look at physical differences in the eye. There are no such examples where atheists are analogously lacking a sense.

I see what the Asker is trying to do, but the analogy falls flat on its face with even a little scrutiny.

Nik1hil · Answer

It's very simple...
Every color and shade of light in light spectrum has a different wavelength which decides the color we see..
The color that we see, is pointless, it's just a way that we perceive the world, it's our closed perception and visible radiation is a very small part of the whole range of possible radiations... Like infrared, ultraviolet, alpha-beta-gamma rays.
Color blind or not, we shouldn't identify radiation with different wavelength using specific color..
Give a color blind Guy a SPECTROMETER and he will be able to identify the radiation that fall under the color range that you consider BLUE!..
Only an uneducated person who believes in colors of light! Will believe in idea of GOD!
Any properly educated person Who understands that colors are just different wavelength light will not accept the idea of God...
In fact The device! The smartphone you are using was built by a scientist..
Person who built that screen emitting colors that you see! understood concept of light and different wavelengths... That's how he successfully made a screen that emits all the possible colors..

Anonymous · Answer

Only in the same way that I can explain sound to a deaf person. Abstractly. It would contain none of the essence, qualia or nuance of the actual sense.. Can you describe what your elbow sees? Of course not, the elbow doesn't see.

I could say that we have a sense, that detects energetic waves in electromagnetic radiation, similar to how we have a sense that detects motion waves in a medium next to our heads. One is called sight. The other is sound.

Sound can be perceived from low to high, but there are many vibrations outside of our ability to hear them. They can be measured and created and re-created though.
Colours are the arbitrary distinctions we make in the frequency of the electromagnetic waves.

We call Blue, any electromagnetic waves with a length between 492nanometers and 455 nanometers, similar to how we call middle C on piano, any wave with a frequency of 261 Hertz and a length of 4 feet 3 inches.

Neither of these explanations can give you a sense of the sky or the wonders of Bach.

Ez-Bri-Z · Answer

I'm agnostic so I am not sure if this would count, but obviously I can't say water or the sky, but I can base it on emotions and touch. Although colorblindess has several different variations of it, I'd probably go with the same thing as a full blind person.

For something like sky blue I would say it is an uplifting feeling where gravity seems to lose a bit of its grip on you. A calm peaceful rest in the softest mattress and sheets imaginable. Like tasting a marshmallow. Light fluffy and sweet.

For a darker blue, let's say navy blue i would say basically it is heavy like almost oppressive in a way. Like a weighted blanket of sadness that you can't quite shake off. Its like the feel of the dusk giving into night. The shift in weather from warm to cool.

HugoThe2nd · Answer

Sure, here goes:

"Blue is a "color", but really it's what we call the light of a specific range of wavelengths as interpreted by human eyes.
You have trouble differentiating this light because the cells that normally serve this function in the eyes of other people are missing inside your eyes.

Also, the color blue has literally no correlation with god or religion, because even though you can't observe it with your own eyes, you can collect plenty of evidence for its existence by empirical means, contrary to the belief in divine deities which is based entirely in subjective delusion and will forever remain stuck exclusively within the heads of people who adhere to it.

Huh? Why did I say the last part? Just thought it would help you understand the color blue.
Oh.. it didn't? It was just gibberish? Nvm then!"

NathanDavis · Answer

Yes, of course... blind people are very capable of understanding and and experiencing feelings, and all other sensations, just don't focus on their limitation with the light spectrum... appeal to their other senses, there's smell, and touch, there's taste, at the very least you can relate the color blue to something cool, that's where you start and you take it from there.

My answer has nothing to do with god though... I've just worked with some children that have different levels of visual impairment.

Smashingdoozy · Answer

Well you don't explain these really you show things you associate with the colors.

Take them to the beach, dip their feet in the water. Blue looks as the water feels, the water reflects the sky.

Crumble a crunchy leaf in your hand, that's the color orange, explain the fruit is also that color so the taste of orange is also associated with the color.

Green is the feeling of your feet running on freshly mown grass and the smell of peppermint.

Red is the heat from the fireplace and the spice left on your tongue after eating a spicy meal.

I'd also like to add that most colorblind people actually do see color they just either struggle to see red-green or blue-yellow. So they know what these colors look like they just see them on different colors to us. Monochromacy (seeing in black and white) only affects 0.003% of the population.

This post seems rather pointless and not very well thought out 🤷🏻‍♀️

MCheetah · Answer

Blue feels like a cool breeze, on an autumn day. Blue can also be how you feel right after a break up with someone you loved. Blue is like 40 to 50 degrees Fahrenheit. Blue is like dipping your toe into some chilly water. Blue feels like the opposite of hot, but not so much that you're frozen. Blue is breezy, chilly, cold, and sometimes depressing, but can also be beautiful, like the oceans of the planet or the clear sky in the morning. That's what "blue" is.

If God exists, he's doing an EXTRA sh*tty job right now... And well, for like 95% of human history. (Also, would God have a wang? Does God get erections? Kinda funny thinking of God as an old white guy. What does God's balls look like? (No Homo.)) If God doesn't exist, then that means billions of humans on the planet Earth look like complete idiots talking to an imaginary creature and starting wars over it. That's why I'm Agnostic. Cause with both scenarios, it's lose-lose.

crazyish · Answer

No and I wouldn't even try to. He probably wouldn't care because colors do not exist in his life the same way they do for others. It will have no meaning to him or his life. It will change nothing because he could never know for sure if what he came up with is correct or not.

zeitgeist057 · Answer

Yes, I would explain to this guy what blue means scientifically in terms of light and being part of the spectrum and a certain vibration. He doesn't need to be even able to see at all (he could be completely blind) in order to understand logic and science.

The concept of light, much like the concept of 'god", is easy to explain using logic and scientific language.

purplepoppy · Answer

That would depend on his understanding of colour. It's reasonable to assume an adult blind man understands that regular people see different colours and that different cultures assign different meanings to each. You could start by explaining wavelengths and how blue has a short one, or how people associate it with cold and its opposite red with hot

Kaneki05 · Answer

Ya can't really. But factually color's do exist and the color blind knows this. For many reasons. Unlike god who has no reasons and has evidence ageist him my personal favourite been hawkings research on black holes been fundemental proof god don't exist.
One don't have to visaulise something to find evidence that it is there. Meanwhile if there is no evidence to something and no visualition and evidenece actaully agiest it.

Safe bet it don't exist.

Anonymous · Answer

Why do you waste your time on such things? You know you're not going to convince anyone who doesn't already see. Mainstream religion has done such a horrible job of interpreting what Christ said that it has run off anyone who possesses critical thought and misled those who follow their teachings. I've seen just as much "color-blindness" among Christians as atheists and agnostics, maybe more.

A question I like to ask is: if two people walk into a church seeking God, and that church teaches falsehoods and misconceptions, which of those two people are being led astray? The one who realizes something is wrong and walks out, becoming an atheist? Or the one who accepts the falsehoods and stays with the church?

Anonymous · Answer

I believe God exist, but this approach will get you nowhere. Blue light is the color expressed from the range of 380 nm to 500 nm. It can be dark like black or light like grey. It is like purple but less red. People with blue colorblindness have difficulty distinguishing green and blue. They can still see blue. If you meant complete colorblindness (very rare) then this task would be more challenging, but still do able. Christianity isn't based on your intelligence as those more intelligent and less so have believed, it is a matter of your hearts relationship with God through Jesus Christ.

Dazed0N0Confused · Answer

I dont know why being an atheist or agnostic would make any difference to describing a color, or anything for that matter, to a blind person.

Blue is as cool as a spring breeze & refreshing as a glass of water on a warm day. It is associated with boys during baby showers & attributed to sadness. It comes in many shades, from the coldest of winters to the heat of summer months.

DreamChaser02 · Answer

I don't see what this question have to do with God's existence or inexistence. I fail to see the analogy here

I would describe color blue to a blind person by using their sense of hearing like letting them listen to the sound of a sea and its waves

Arcreactor81 · Answer

Well, there are different kinds of color blindness, but considering the fact that the person can't see the color blue, this is what I'd do:
Look at the water. The first color that may come to your mind is blue.

Or just wear specially-made glasses

ChrisMaster69 · Answer

Yes, you find something that sounds plausible, then just lie to him. literally just make it up. it’s not like he can say you are wrong about the colour.

Archerer · Answer

Not the subjective experience of blue, but I can tell them where on the light spectrum blue is, and which items are blue to normal seeing people... Or I could just tell them to pray for blue and surely, they will wake up the next day and see blue, cause you know, God..

andreasderjuengere · Answer

I think it's not possible:
Such guys are colour blind on their own decision.
They are just not longer interested in colours; and thus won't listen.
That's fine with me - as long as they don't molest me -unasked for- with attempts to pursuade me to also refuse colours.

Anonymous · Answer

No, but you can explain it to a computer. It's too detailed to explain to a human, because blue comes with emotional connotations. But if a guy was an android then yep for sure you can upload what blue means. Also it's a bit arrogant to refer to the Christian God as the only god, there are so many gods that people believe in!

genericname85 · Answer

i don't quite understand how that has anything to do with god... but i'd explain to them that just like they see only black and white, we see more than those colors than them.

it's simpler to explain the concept of color to a color blind person, than to a completely blind person.

NYlatefun · Answer

Or we’re just more intellectually curious, analytical and rational (also, in general atheists are more educated as we tend to have higher academic degrees in average). All that makes us see through the man made BS that religions are, for the most part, with very limited exceptions. And by the way, I’m an atheist but that doesn’t mean I’m not spiritual.

Floppy2112 · Answer

I appreciate your metaphysical bent here, lol. They'll probably explain the frequency band and shape of the wave forms, but outside of that, there is no way to experience a color other than to see it. Then again it begs the question, when we agree something is blue, are we actually seeing the same thing? Deeeeeeep...

slatyb · Answer

Yes, I can. I can also explain his color blindness. I don't know if God exists. Neither do you or anyone. But I'm not wasting my time in ridiculous rituals and beliefs. We do know one thing -- prayer is no better than doing nothing at all.

Biloscothu · Answer

Yes i can if unlike you he paid attention to basic grade 10 science its a particular wavelength of electromagnetic wave and you know even the two of us would Percive the same blue differently but won't be able to explain the difference to each other.

natured · Answer

Can you explain you question better.  Anyways I think everyone has the right the believe in whatever they want, it shouldn't bother you.

SmokinAces2000 · Answer

People don’t have to believe in things that you do me personally I believe in god but I don’t believe in selling your soul to a religion and I don’t care what your religious or non religious believes are as long as you keep them to yourself and don’t try to convert me or something

Leavesbound · Answer

What do fairy tales have to do with a medical condition or optics? In any case men who are color blind can usually see some color. I would first find out what they can see then use that as a reference point.

Mia-Wallace · Answer

Are you implying that God needs to be felt and not explained? That atheists try to explain God when they need some kind of insight/"inner understanding" to believe in his existence?

Gwenhwyfar · Answer

I actually do believe in a higher power, but your example doesn’t prove the existence of God thanks for inviting me though

Neko911 · Answer

Wtf does explaining a color 2 a blind person have to do with the possibility of a said God? They have no real correlation

ibodi · Answer

Just do it.

Jessica405 · Answer

You can't explain it. If he can't differentiate between colours, there is no point in trying.  Anyhow, most colour blind people are red/green colour blind, I believe.

jerdanro · Answer

No. I sure can't nor can I prove or disprove the existance of God.

Gosceewual · Answer

i get what ur saying, jus because he isn't visable doesn't mean he isn't there, but your wrong, the colour blue does exist, and god does not... a blind person and god are not something u can compare like that

Ms_Vanderquack · Answer

Yes, I can. Blue is the part of the electromagnetic spectrum with a wavelength between 450 and 495 nanometers.\ What’s my prize?

godfatherfan · Answer

What does the fact that God most likely does not exist have to do with color blind people? This question makes no sense.

Anonymous · Answer

Sure, if he's capable of understanding simple abstract ideas like most people.  Are you trying to say that if we can't see a god it doesn't mean it isn't there? Lmao

loveslongnails · Answer

What does belief in God's existence has to do with explaining color to a color blind person?

Can you actually explain ANY color to someone who hasn't seen it? Not, not if you can't see the color at all.

weysally · Answer

what has religion got to do with explaining colour blindness,

JackSmy · Answer

What do the two have to do with each other? Seems Non-Sequitur, to me. . .

BlacklightShade · Answer

The same way you can explain the ocean to someone who lives inland.

blindedd · Answer

yes. jus teach them the color variances. my dad is color blind but he can tell the difference between the colors, simple.

A_Bell · Answer

Blue is a higher energy photo than green, but lower than energy than violet. QED

JuliaStyles · Answer

That's like wondering if a blind person dreams and what about.

msc545 · Answer

What does the existence of God (or not) have to do with explaining things to a blind person?

drexel420 · Answer

What... tf... Can you explain to me why there are abortions poverty isn't he supposed to be all caring

es20490446e · Answer

Why do you believe in God? Moreover, why exactly the same God as your parents?

SpaceGalaxy · Answer

Please remember than whoever claims the existence of something is the one responsible for proving it. You cannot claim the existence of something but cannot prove it and yet ask people who do not agree with you to prove you wrong!

bannacookies · Answer

Blue reminds me of a cool or cold color so I would tell the blind person to feel ice water. That's my correlation of the color blue.

anylolone · Answer

Weirdly enough, yeah. I wouldn't do the whole sound or temperature analogy, considering how our eyes work, texture would be a better starting point.

Omar5881 · Answer

Well for sure God doesn’t exist like us he is the true existence we are just less no comparison what so ever you can't grasp the logic behind God’s existence

TallAnon · Answer

Yes, measurable differences in wavelengths relating to light.

Anonymous · Answer

Uh I don't know what a person’s belief has to do with color blindness 😐

jjj101010 · Answer

For people who don’t like pizza, can you explain to a colour blind person what is blue? The two r unrelated

DangpMango · Answer

That's just nowhere near an effective argument and suggests they're incapable of seeing your perspective

Anonymous · Answer

Just you cannot see doesn't mean you cannot reach existence of it. Blue is just a wawe range and it is easy to differentiate by science and technology

Anonymous · Answer

That makes literally no sense. Blue is a color, god is a fictional character invented by people 6k years ago as a means of control no more no less.

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