[Salamander]

So they do what?

Gather in dim rooms, contemplating the meaning of Nothing?

Heated discussions over what doesn’t happen when you die?

That’ll get boring fast.

[dianed]

Regarding Sam Harris’ book, Letter to a Christian Nation, Michael Novak writes in National Review that “[t]he letter that Harris claims is intended for a Christian nation is in fact wholly uninterested in Christianity on any level, is hugely ignorant, and essentially represents his own love letter to himself, on account of his being superior to the stupid citizens among whom he lives.”

Being on your death bed is a cure for the above problem. Atheists only find God after prolonged illnesses.

[Debacled]

Atheists have never been the problem.

Anti-theists, however, are the problem.

The dialogue is no longer “I personally find no evidence to believe in God” or “I don’t believe in God”. The slogans now being uttered are “God does not exist”, “God is a delusion”, “Only the ill-minded believe in an invisibly sky wizard”, “If you keep your religion out of my government, I’ll keep my thinking out of your church.”

Not good, folks. Many subgroups receive some blame in the radicalization of atheism amongst the American youth: indifferent “religious” parents, government schools, entertainment/fashion industries, feel-good/ liberal Christianity, the young earth creationists (”Hey, God put dinosaur bones here to test our faith!”), and a spineless Catholic Church that is some times poor in teaching Scripture and Catechetics.

God help us!

[SuziQ]

Bump for later reading

[little jeremiah]

Placemark.

[a fool in paradise]

The Cardinal’s comments will be hard to dismiss as scaremongering. YouTube is crawling with videos by articulate, friendly American teenagers and university students proclaiming their uncompromising atheism; indeed, atheism is one of the fastest-growing movements in the 18-25 age group, casting doubt on old assumptions that the religious impulse is somehow hard-wired into the American psyche.

When atheism makes the leap from "there is nothing" (a step beyond agnosticism's "don't know") into "and others should NOT be following the FALSE ..." it has become a full fledged religion in its own right.

This type of Atheist is not without a religion.