Posted on 04/05/2011 5:25:32 AM PDT by AustralianConservative
It’s no magical coincidence either that atheist Christopher Hitchens moved to the United States – or that sulking secularists tend to immigrate to Christian-majority nations, as opposed to godless states. I call this taking advantage.
On some level, the pretend victim knows that he or she has a highly developed faith, and is often drawn to explicit, more evolved and open faith islands, to preach his or her “good news” narratives (from discredited Darwin-inspired eugenics to absurd manmade global-warming predictions). To disagree too is sheer blasphemy.
Wounded by the supposed ignorance of others, many atheists see themselves and/or their fellow evangelists as eternal martyrs, regardless of what the facts are.
Thus, when the atheist Madalyn Murray O’Hair disappeared it was thought that she was murdered by Christians. Indeed, decades beforehand, 1964’s LIFE magazine portrayed the hate-loving secularist as “the most hated woman in America” but in the calm light of history, we now know that the founder of American Atheists was killed by a fellow atheist, and that her repeated diary-recorded cries such as “Somebody, somewhere, love me” point to spiritual malnourishment.
Of the supposed martyr, her now-Christian son William J. Murray would confess, "She was just evil …”
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This article brought memories back of being a child and hearing about Madelyn Murray O’Hair(?). I recall feeling absolute revulsion for this woman, and in retrospect I ought to have felt the same revulsion for the media who plastered her face and philosophy all over the magazine stands. Atheism is without question, a religion, with its main tenets being willful disobedience and rebellion against God.
Hey, he seems to have forgotten to mention that atheists are always brilliant, really really smart geniuses, while those with religious faith are knuckle-dragging, idiot-dolts. (Just like all those brilliant fellows and girls in the Democrat party.)
IMHO
Christianity: Man is made in God’s image, and treating man with humiliating indignity is therefore an assault directly upon God.
Atheism: Man is time plus matter plus chance, and the demand to treat the individual with dignity prevents society from evolving into the ultimate socialist ideal.
Yes, O’Hair was a very angry woman (to be sure) with daddy/God issues (a common recipe for a psychological train wreck).
On the plus side, her very evil turned her son to Christianity and I suspect she accidently turned more people to Christianity than she did atheism.
I also see why so many people were repelled by her. To my understanding, her atheist allies cut her up.
LOL: Good point. Funny how my history books are filled up with famous Christian scientists though. Apparently, their “simplistic” faith opened their minds up to miraculous medical breakthroughs.
Many atheists are good complainers though.
We need to expose their ideology – and bring the Bible back into public schools. I say go hard. Don’t play nice with these snake charmers.
“Funny how my history books are filled up with famous Christian sicentists though.”
There is no such thing as a “Christian scientist”.
The only true scientists are those who have made political breakthroughs into the realm of collectivism, global warming studies, green energy policy, and the living, breathing, American constitution. (And Uncle Che is the greatest human being who has ever lived.)
/Sarcasm/
The more religious freedom you have, the more peaceful and propserous you are as a nation.
Forcing non-belief (or more accurately state-worship in the case of countries like China and NK) isn't secularism and more than the Westboro Baptist Church is Christianity. Thousands of years of bloodshed has taught us that mankind gets along better when you and the government stay out of your neighbors religion and vice versa.
LOL: Are you Ripley from Ripley’s Believe It Or Not?
“Majority Christian nations tend to have more secular governments.”
Most governments in the West are based on Christian notions of justice (although granted the left has been trying to destroy that too). Take the Westminster system – it was built on the Bible. America’s Founding Fathers too made clear that they were explicitly influenced by a Christian God. This is why even when charlatans take power they can be more easily overthrown. Also, secularism is a religion.
“Are you Ripley from Ripley’s Believe It Or Not?”
Only The Shadow knows.
>No, secularism is the absence of religious endorsement.
The United States Constitution is a secular document, in that it doesn't mention God or religion in any way except to say that the government can't establish a specific faith.
You and the government have no say over what religion I follow or practice, or choose not to follow or practice. That is secularism.
Separation of church and state is not in the Constitution (some ratifying states had official religions)….from The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Constitution, a good book by the way.
Secularists are also captive to an atheist myth or genuinely ignorant. From Judge Moore:
The recognition of the sovereignty of God is an essential prerequisite for liberty. The Constitution proclaimed in its preamble that one of the stated purposes of the government is to “secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity.” In the Declaration of Independence, Jefferson wrote that liberty was a gift of God and an “unalienable right” to be secured by government. One of those liberties, according to Washington, was the right to worship God, a right “not only among the choicest of [our] blessings, but also of [our] rights.”
One could go on. But secularists have faith that America was secular and deny all facts, to the contrary. They are secular fundamentalists. America is a Christian nation.
You have no ground to demand that I practice a certain religion, and the government has no authority to force a religion upon you. America's government is a secular one, with no compulsory power when it comes to the practice of religion. It keeps its nose out of it, and we're much freer because of that fact.
The wall of separation that Jefferson talked about benefits us all, because the government can't involve itself in your own religious practices, and it forbids others from using the compulsory power of the government to meddle in your religious affairs.
It's the best model.
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