Posted on 08/09/2012 10:03:00 AM PDT by Leigh Patrick Sullivan
“remind them that atheism is also a faith based enterprise”
And every faith based belief system requires a sacrament. Too bad the atheists and progressives chose the human sacrifice of abortion as theirs.
Youtube videos pushing atheism is a great place to find them.
Ya think?! Who knew?! [grin]
And genocide. See post #17.
The same atheists who are intolerant of the Biblical G-d are big fans of the religions of "indigenous pipples." In fact, one of the arguments the atheists use is "chrstianity destroyed thousands of beautiful precious indigenous religions!" Which, I assume, means that if there had been atheists back then they would have formed a Wall Of Human Flesh to protect the shamans and witch doctors. I also assume (from the way they argue this) that they'd gladly bring every one of those extinct religions back, which would actually make more "idiotic, bigoted, unenlightened" religions in the world, not fewer.
I notice that both sides of the G-d argument seem to assume that the whole issue revolves around chrstianity; ie, an argument for G-d is an argument for chrstianity while an argument against chrstianity is an argument against G-d. How many "atheists" are actually rebellious former chrstians pitching a tantrum against the way they were raised?
That’s interesting that you point that out that atheists, while very intolerant of Christianity, are much more tolerant of other religions. There is a guy on Youtube who I watch who does travel vlogs in Asian countries. He’s a communist (one of those types who thinks communism would work if done right, you know?) and atheist, but his travel vlogs are often well done, and I like seeing countries I don’t have the ability or means to visit right now. I have watched him travel around China, Taiwan, and a bit of Japan. One thing he visits is a lot of the temples. He’s overall very respective of the religions like Buddhism, Confucianism, Taoism, and Hinduism. However, he seems to have much more disdain and a lack of respect for Christianity. He also thinks nothing of using God’s name in vain. He rarely visits churches, but the few times he has or has passed one, he is often disrespectful. Atheists and liberals seem to have a hatred for Christianity that they don’t have for other religions.
As it always has been, people can choose tomobey the One True God, or they can choose to be in rebellion.
Other “religions” are just different flavors of that rebellion, and are therefore not “enemies” of the humanist/atheist.
There is a quote, and I’m not sure who said it or even if I have it exactly right, but it goes like this, “I would rather live my whole life believing there is a God and die to find out their isn’t than live my whole life believing there isn’t a God and die to find out there is.”
Statistically religious people tend to live longer happier lives, have more successful marriages, more children, live in bigger houses, drive bigger cars, have competitive advantages in school, sports, and business. Non-religious people envy these mysterious advantages. The nature of envy is not to have what someone else has, but to destroy what they have. Some of it is they would love for there to be a God and see you as someone that could challenge their hopeless beliefs.
Yes, precisely because so many of them are former chrstians themselves who are "flipping off" mom and dad. Why else would an "atheist" bash chrstianity while respecting aboriginal witch doctors?
It’s not “mom and dad” that they are in rebellion to, even if they think that’s the case.
So, they're rebelling against G-d? They don't have any trouble respecting moslems' belief in G-d (or even Black Protestants' and Hispanic Catholics' belief in G-d), do they? In fact, I'd say that lefty atheists actually prefer Black and Hispanic chrstians to just about any other group.
That’s an excellent point. I think that explains why liberals who don’t like conservative Christians are very supportive and willing to defend Muslims who are much more conservative (think Burkha) than the Christians.
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