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Rude and Uninformed. A reflection on a recent billboard campaign by Atheist Humanists
Archdiocese of Washington ^ | December 20, 2012 | Msgr. Charles Pope

Posted on 12/21/2012 2:24:54 PM PST by NYer

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To: ILS21R

“The atheist creed: There is no god and I hate him.”

Sums up their illogical religious position perfectly.


21 posted on 12/21/2012 3:22:22 PM PST by CodeToad (Liberals are bloodsucking ticks. We need to light the matchstick to burn them off.)
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To: A_perfect_lady

Atheism is a very harmful religion. You are rude to come into Jim Robinson’s livingroom, and insult his religion and his guests who share that religion, while trying to promote your religion on Jim Robinson’s dime. That is really a trashy way to behave.


22 posted on 12/21/2012 3:30:07 PM PST by BykrBayb (Somewhere, my flower is there. ~ Þ)
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To: A_perfect_lady

“Religion is what you get when you mix schizophrenia, psychological totalitarianism, and Amway.”
Your qualifications for this diagnosis would be?
The significance of Christianity coming out of the middle east as does Islam would be?


23 posted on 12/21/2012 3:37:09 PM PST by Wiser now (Socialism does not eliminate poverty, it guarantees it.)
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To: A_perfect_lady

It isn’t a matter of whether we think it is rude. The issue is whether it is rude.

If I were a former business partner of your father, is it rude for me to enter your house and tell awful but “what I say is truthful” tales of your father, tales that you had never before heard?

And is it a crime for you to have let the community know that you think your father was a great guy?


24 posted on 12/21/2012 3:40:11 PM PST by xzins (Retired Army Chaplain and Proud of It! True supporters of our troops pray for their victory!)
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To: steve86
What does THAT mean?

It usually means you are dealing with someone who has regularly scheduled, detailed discussions about Keats with his end table and ottoman. You know, a sociopath.

25 posted on 12/21/2012 3:48:02 PM PST by Cyber Liberty (Obama considers the Third World morally superior to the United States.)
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To: NYer; zot; Interesting Times; SeekAndFind; Alamo-Girl

Thank you for posting Msgr. Pope’s excellent commentary.

The blessing of our Savior to you and your own.


26 posted on 12/21/2012 3:51:22 PM PST by GreyFriar (Spearhead - 3rd Armored Division 75-78 & 83-87)
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To: A_perfect_lady

A_perfect_lady

“If you don’t like my views, stop following me around like a puppy.

And in particular, don’t start a conversation with me about atheism and then run tattling to Jim Rob like a school girl in hopes of getting me banned, when you are the one who brought up the topic.”

Riiight.... and don’t start a conversation about religion and then go running away when you’re proven to be in error.


27 posted on 12/21/2012 3:55:03 PM PST by ILS21R (Everything is a conspiracy. No? You're living in one.)
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To: NYer

http://www.uhuh.com/nwo/communism/comgoals.htm

27. Infiltrate the churches and replace revealed religion with “social” religion. Discredit the Bible and emphasize the need for intellectual maturity which does not need a “religious crutch.”

28. Eliminate prayer or any phase of religious expression in the schools on the ground that it violates the principle of “separation of church and state.”

Militant atheists are tools- either knowing or unknowing, but tools.


28 posted on 12/21/2012 4:00:22 PM PST by GenXteacher (You have chosen dishonor to avoid war; you shall have war also.)
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To: melsec

“I do turn on all my lights on Earth Day = it’s not really to mock them. It’s more of a protest of not being told what to do.”

I do too, although I do it to mock them.


29 posted on 12/21/2012 4:04:12 PM PST by Gil4 (Progressives - Trying to repeal the Law of Supply and Demand since 1848)
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To: xzins

Putting a poster in a bus or subway station isn’t “Entering your house.” If they put it in a church, THAT would be rude.


30 posted on 12/21/2012 4:09:52 PM PST by A_perfect_lady
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To: NYer

Atheism isn’t communism. Period.


31 posted on 12/21/2012 4:11:10 PM PST by A_perfect_lady
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To: ILS21R
No one has proven me to be in error about anything. You cannot prove the existence of your God or the infallibility of your Bible. Indeed, the whole point is supposed to be that you believe despite the lack of proof. Because if it could be proven, there would be no faith, only knowledge.

I stay off those threads that are marked about religion, for the religious. But this is a thread about atheists, or more specifically, whining about the "rudeness" of atheists for daring to support kids who doubt this nonsense in public places.

32 posted on 12/21/2012 4:18:17 PM PST by A_perfect_lady
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To: Gil4

OK it’s about 1/2 and 1/2 for me! LOL


33 posted on 12/21/2012 4:22:38 PM PST by melsec (Once a Jolly Swagman camped by a Billabong....)
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To: A_perfect_lady; xzins

If they came onto your website, which you own, and posted those things about your father, would that be rude?


34 posted on 12/21/2012 4:23:29 PM PST by BykrBayb (Somewhere, my flower is there. ~ Þ)
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To: BykrBayb

Not if you posted an attack on them first, no.


35 posted on 12/21/2012 4:25:31 PM PST by A_perfect_lady
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To: A_perfect_lady; ILS21R
No one has proven me to be in error about anything. You cannot prove the existence of your God or the infallibility of your Bible.
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Can an atheist prove that there is no God? Nope! They can't.

It is axiomatic: Every sentient being on this earth has a religious worldview. That worldview is either godless or God-centered. Neither of these religious belief systems can be proven. Both are based on faith.

By the way,...Haven't I seen your name on the evolution threads defending the force-feeding of evolution to the children held captive in our religiously NON-neutral government owned and run, godless, and socialist-entitlement schools?

It is an anecdotal observation of mine that atheists are the biggest defenders of our nation's system of socialist-entitlement, and single payer government schools. Gee! How lucky for them! Atheists get the government to force the taxpayer to support their atheistic faith and get the government to indoctrinate 85% of the nation's children in their worldview. First Amendment? Establshment clause? What's that when compared to the importance of rearing up the next generation of voters in their anointed atheistic religious worldview stamped with the godless government school imprimatur.

My conclusion: Atheists and evolutionists are bullies and they use government force to compel the rest of us to support their religious faith.

36 posted on 12/21/2012 4:31:14 PM PST by wintertime
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To: Wiser now
The significance of Christianity coming out of the middle east as does Islam would be?

You really can't figure it out? Why do you suppose "Thou Shalt Not Rape" isn't one of the 10 commandments? Hm? Look at that culture; it hasn't really changed, has it? Only in the land of Arabs would such a fantastical, convoluted tale of nonsense emerge, and that any American bows toward either Mecca or Jerusalem is an embarrassment.

How is it even conservative? In socialism, another man pays for your social services. In Christianity, another man pays for your sins. No wonder all the black churches and half the catholics have gone to the left: there's nothing conservative about the mindset of not having to pay for anything. Vote for Obama and you'll get welfare. Vote for Jesus and you'll get heaven. One dovetails into the other without a hitch. And you can't figure it out.

Be an American. Don't bow to anything from the land of tribes and sacrifices.

37 posted on 12/21/2012 4:32:08 PM PST by A_perfect_lady
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To: GenXteacher

Militant atheists are tools- either knowing or unknowing, but tools.
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As in, “What a tool he is!”

AKA: Useful Idiots


38 posted on 12/21/2012 4:34:09 PM PST by wintertime
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To: wintertime

Can you prove there are no mermaids? No. You can’t prove a negative and we don’t have to prove squat.


39 posted on 12/21/2012 4:34:23 PM PST by A_perfect_lady
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To: A_perfect_lady

I don’t believe Jim went to your website and posted anything about you, your father or your religion. You are on his site, not yours. He has every right to maintain a Christian website, whether you like it or not. You are rude to go on his website to insult his religion.


40 posted on 12/21/2012 4:37:18 PM PST by BykrBayb (Somewhere, my flower is there. ~ Þ)
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