Posted on 04/18/2007 4:39:46 PM PDT by buccaneer81
Desperate times call for reality check Wednesday, April 18, 2007 3:37 AM
Predictably, after the horrific events at Virginia Tech, many of the media have carried images of students standing in ritual circles engaging in the futile act of prayer. Are these not students who have been trained in science? Have they not learned that there is no such thing as magic?
Also predictably, Evangelist-in-Chief George W. Bush has assured our nation that "Laura and I . . . are praying for the victims." While it would even be a waste of effort to pray for the injured survivors -- after all, nothing fails like prayer -- what in the world can be the desired effect of praying for dead victims?
If America is to survive, it must reject all magical methods for solving its problems and face reality squarely. We must learn to live with the fact that we have no invisible friend in the sky. Instead of being born again, we must simply grow up.
FRANK R. ZINDLER Editor
American Atheist Press
Columbus
I feel sorry for him.
Why? So we can make better worm food?
I'm curious if the circulation of this stuff exceeds single digits
Not me. He's old enough to know better.
You’d be surprised how many idiots there are out there.
No atheist of my acquaintance could be that obnoxious on his worst day.
The people praying around in the circle have more hope than the atheist and all science. Atheism is hopeless like the liberals.
If this fool Zindler had been at Norris Hall last Monday, he’d be in one of the prayer circles.
Wrong on born again, right on grow up; grow up to the standard that God commands we all live.
Taking a strong position on an unprovable premise is illogical.
One that I once worked with could come awfully close to this level of obnoxiousness.
He seemed to really resent the fact that I believed in God.
Absolutely correct.
“We must learn to live with the fact that we have no invisible friend in the sky”
You are so right!! The miracles of each day that we all take for granted just happen due to the unwritten laws of physics and biology. They are not due to intelligent acts—just happenstance. As someone so wise to know this, please tell me, where did the universe come from? What caused the big bang? What was here before the big bang? Where did matter come from? How can I start life in an ammonia filled puddle by electrocuting it a few times?
What’s the difference in a Leftist and an Atheist?
One of them believes in Magic, the other doesn’t believe in anything.
You know, I’m not particularly religious, but... for anyone to shrug off praying, no matter whether it is “religious in nature” is really, really a lost soul.
There have been scientific studies that seem to indicate that indeed praying DOES help. Wow.
“Where did matter come from?”
Reminds me of the punchline about God’s conversation with the athiest scientists:
And God said, “Get your own dirt.”
Why are we giving this moonbat a forum?
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