Posted on 04/03/2010 5:36:23 PM PDT by SkyPilot
Cheers!
If they can find common ground, great: this is explicitly a pro-God site according to JR.
If not, let them remain courteous and respectful.
Cheers!
Yes they do: which is why Jesus came, to give them life, and life more abundantly.
Cheers!
“When we die, we’re annihilated!” I don’t know why they didn’t go with that slogan in their ad campaign.
Why should Easter matter so much to an atheist? It’s a Christian day. There are more people who believe in God than Christians.
I'd say all those in photo believe in God as much as the Popes does as their lives revolve around Him.
....then, is there anything at all.
"Those who do not believe in God think of him more earnestly than those who do." - ( who said it? )
... and it's "Nietzsche," like "Porsche."
If "religion being in charge" can make you an atheist then what do you do when atheists are in charge i.e., Stalin, Mao, Castro and on and on?
How about:
Nil igitur mors est ad nos
"Therefore death is nothing to us" - Lucretius
Satan HATES Easter and the reminder of what happened.
His days are numbered and he knows it and is trying to take as many with him as possible.
People have tried for thousands of years to stamp out Christianity and religion, and it hasn’t worked yet.
And it’s not going to.
He is Risen!!!
They want to hear someone tell them that they are right and don’t have to worry about their eternal destiny after all.
That’s all this is about.
Except that even atheists can recognize genuine faith. That's what irritates them. Not religiosity.
So many atheists seem intent on recreating what they reject- they replace going to church with some other kind of meeting, they try to convert everyone else, they are always finding heretics, etc. etc. They might as well have stayed in a religion! They take all the fun out of being an atheist, basically.
We have more in my Christian homeschool group every Thursday.
Heck, 300? I’ll bet the Catholic Church on the corner has more this Sunday.
How do you mean? Theistic backsliders, as I suppose?
Do you know who the patron saint of science is? It's Albertus Magnus, a 13th century naturalist and encyclopedist. I have always thought that the real and true Patron Saint of Science is Giordano Bruno, who was after all martyred for the cause of free thought, as he freely and knowingly submitted himself to his fate in confidence of the knowledge of his own rightness.
There is another martyr of science written of in THE CHEESE AND THE WORMS by Carlo Ginzburg. He was a 16th century Italian miller known as Menocchio, who was given to cosmological speculation and brought to trial for heresy. He recanted, but was brought to trial again after persisting in his speculations. At this trial he submitted himself to his fate and spoke freely:
Preaching that men should live in peace pleases me, but preaching about hell, Paul says one thing, Peter says another, so that I think it is a business, an invention of men who know more than others ... I did not believe that paradise existed, because I did not know where it was.
Perfect headline for this:
Atheists Try To Get Rise Out Of Christians Again At Easter
I don’t get why people think it’s strange for like-minded people to band together and try to recruit more people to their way of thinking and try to influence public policy. It’s the natural thing for people to do. Now you can argue that their approach is ineffective, but it makes as much sense for atheists to try to get publicity for an event as any other group. Why wouldn’t they try to increase their influence and attempt something like getting “In God We Trust” off of currency just as Christians would demonstrate and lobby to keep it on?
“There’s probably no God.” And on what foundation, pray tell, rest the laws the laws of logic that allow us as sentient beings to make sense of that sentence?
I use to be an atheist and I wished that I could swallow the "pink pill" of believing that their was a God. I believed that their was not a God but I envied those who were so naive as to believe that one existed.
I have no idea how they can celebrate the idea that they simply vanish upon death. I think they lie. If they did not care if they vanished upon death they would lack the natural need to survive. If someone tried to murder them would they simply go with "oh well it matters not" or would they fight like tigers to live? Wanting to live forever is as normal as wanting to survive the next moment.
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