Posted on 08/01/2011 3:29:32 PM PDT by cakid1
They call themselves 'Backyard Skeptics.'
One of their ads, includes the saying ' Out of the Closet Atheists.."
They're spending thousands of dollars to put-up 30 bus-shelter ads from Anaheim to Mission Viejo. Their message:
Have Doubts? So Do We
"The campaign is aimed at letting other nonbelievers know there is a community of non-theists who share the idea that we can be good without God, The Orange County Register quoted Backyard Skeptics director Bruce Gleason as saying."
"The ads are offending commuter, the newspaper noted. If they dont want to believe in God then they should just be quiet about it, an Anaheim resident, Melinda Holt, was quoted as saying. Why do they have to buy a poster and put it in public view? Im a Christian and to see the Holy Bible in an ad that questions its worth thats just not OK.
Why are atheists so obsessed with something they believe does not exist?
The continued normalizing of psychosis marches on.
Allah doesn’t exist. But Muhammad’s madness does.
If there were no God there would be no atheists.
Atheists worry me. You can’t kill 200 million people in one century and be right in the head.
What about the “in the closet” atheists?
I’ll bet there are plenty of those. No real benefit to openly professing atheism outside of the academic subculture.
How many in the clergy?
More despicable blood libel.
Typical Christian slander.
Have Doubts? So Do We
If they have doubts then they are not atheist.
Jesus said that no one is good except God the Father.
What’s despicable is all the people that atheistic regimes in the Soviet Union, China, Cambodia, Vietnam, etc. etc. killed.
Atheists killed more people in one century than all religions, of whatever stripe, did in the previous 69 combines.
It’s scary to think that atheists killed more people in the 20th century than were even alive on the earth at the time Jesus was walking it.
A fool says there is no God.
How few need to be killed before sanity is assured.
1. They know they can’t prove a negative. If they are intellectually honest, being finite beings, they have to admit it’s totally possible that God does exist, they just haven’t found Him yet.
2. They are intellectually dishonest because many have an internal bias that doesn’t want there to be a God. This allows them to discount evidence others see as proof of God. Even if God returned in front of their faces they would sit there and say they were hallucinating, someone’s pulling some kind of trick on them.
3. They hate to see so many people - the vast overwhelming majority - believing something very strongly, that they themselves don’t. It’s a constant irritating reminder to them that almost everyone else in the world does NOT believe what they do.
4. It further irritates them even more because they think these people are so stupid and they have so little in the way of strong arguments that really work to change their minds.
I believe many people that claim to be agnostic are really atheists. At least “hopeful atheists”.
There’s no atheists in foxholes.
“If they have doubts then they are not atheists...”
I agree. I don’t know of one Christian that didn’t “question” their religion at some point. Maybe not right out there with “God doesn’t exist” but more along the lines “why doesn’t God help me or cure a person”. It is typical and personally I believe God welcomes questions of faith. How else could we contemplate Him and religion in general. For example, we recently had a close relative go through heck with bone cancer/lung cancer/shattered hip etc... Her sister “questioned” why God would make a good person go through so much agony. After her death, the sister is actually more spiritual and religious. Why? I think she realized that God was with her and her sister even during the most difficult times.
God doesn’t believe in atheists.
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