Not Such a Bright Idea: Atheists Try a New Name

http://www.crosswalk.com/news/weblogs/mohler/ ^ | September 29, 2003 | Dr. R. Albert Mohler, Jr.

[exmarine]

Do you really want me to take apart your entire post, and expose it for the emotion-driven, hateful spew that it is?

How can I be wrong? Is there a right and wrong?

[MineralMan]

"The missing distinction is in the "-ist" which denotes advocacy or commitment. In a discourse about beliefs, atheist could mean what you say. But in a general context, I think one would no more define himself as an "atheist" than as an a-child-ist - a person without children."

Not at all. All of the atheists I know refer to themselves simply as atheists. This "bright" nonsense is just that.

[L,TOWM]

Now that's funny...

[malakhi]

Typical...

Perhaps. But true.

We could just as easily spend time looking at what religious people have done to promote evil, totalitarian systems. Evil men, whether self-proclaimed "religious" or "atheist", do evil things. Your sweeping generalizations about atheists are as false as statements beginning "ALL blacks are ________" or "ALL Jews are ________".

[PaulJ]

We try to convert you...

I never said I was an atheist.But you do make some valid points. I can understand the anger of frustration one preaching the gospels (or other religous texts) may experience. What I was refering to was the out-and-out anger (read:hatred) that one may experience just in proclaiming his atheism (you don't need to scroll to far up in this thread to see at least one example).

Your "moneychangers" example is also a valid example of anger.Any assault on a person's religion would produce understandable anger.

[OWK]

How can I be wrong? Is there a right and wrong?

The God that YOU claim to follow, tells you that your actions in this thread are wrong.

So either your God is right, and your actions are wrong.

Or you choose to ignore your God, and act like a petulant and defiant child in spite of his instructions. (which is also wrong).

[exmarine]

...but many others also act better than many other others that claim Him. This was also mentioned by Christ directly "...begone from me you workers of iniquity."

Mentioned "directly"? I don't recall in the bible where Jesus said this. Post the verse.

[malakhi]

How can I be wrong? Is there a right and wrong?

If you had actually read my posts on this thread, you would have seen that I referred to myself as a theist. I believe in God. And as a believer in God, I find your posts and the attitude they convey to be repulsive. You represent "our side" poorly, and that's why I called you out.

[HalfFull]

Thing the evo's on this forum would go for changing the term "crevo thread" to "brightcreationist threads" ?

[OWK]

And you are probably the most idiotic pothead on FR. Lots of us know it.

Many claim knowledge.

Few can demonstrate it.

[balrog666]

I sincerely hope that you find something that gives you peace in your life. Clearly you are an angry and bitter man.

Careful now, or he will revert to type and threaten to track you down and beat you up.

[malakhi]

Luke 13:27.

[malakhi]

You may also wish to consider Matthew 7:16-23.

[OWK]

Careful now, or he will revert to type and threaten to track you down and beat you up.

Fear not... I consider defense a personal responsibility.

[exmarine]

The God that YOU claim to follow, tells you that your actions in this thread are wrong.

Really? Elijah mocked the priests of Baal. I merely mock the priests of neodarwinism. Did I say something that was untrue? Is atheism a form of god-hating? Yes. Are all atheists god-haters? No - only those who are actively working against God and trying to destroy His work on this earth. I do not apologize for coming out against the enemies of God - atheists are that. They are the ones who are actively working with the ACLU and other secular-humanists to drive God from the public sphere in America. I expose them for what they are - moral relativists and liars and revisionists - and I can back those accusations up with FACTS. If the shoe fits, wear it.

[gdani]

Fantastic. You must have certainly thought "what would Jesus do?" before you typed that response.

Your attempts at guilting me won't work.

Naturally, there's no reason to worry about *my* judgment. But a careful reading of your Bible would reveal to you your repeated sins just on this thread.

[Right Wing Professor]

Blatantly dishonest, as we've come to expect from the advocates of the One True Absolute Moral Code. The Brights encompass anyone with a naturalistic world view, inclusing atheists and agnostics, yet this article does not so much as mention the world agnostic. As a matter of fact, I am a Bright (I signed up after noticing the intense hatred for them manifest in articles such as this). I am not an atheist.

[Revolting cat!]

"If there is no God, then everything is permitted"

-- Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Our 'bright' friends have yet to refute this simple truth, after 100 years of great "successes" of atheism that murdered 100 million and enslaved a billion.

[exmarine]

You're a theist? Want a medal? Is that supposed to impress me? I don't care what your opinion is of my methods. What I stated was true. If it is untrue, then refute it! Forget the tone (as if you can read tone in print), respond to the charge!! If what I said is true, then how can I be wrong? Is telling the truth wrong? I can back up what I said. If you want to defend atheists, be my guest - I'm ready for ya. What sort of "theist" are you anyway? Deists are theists. Some theists act like atheists - like the Rev. Barry Lynn.