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Atheists' Sign Spurs Talk, Thought
www.courant.com ^ | December 8, 2007 | DAVID OWENS

Posted on 12/08/2007 5:26:51 AM PST by Man50D

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1 posted on 12/08/2007 5:26:51 AM PST by Man50D
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To: Man50D
Imagine no religion?? But then there would be no atheism, which the silliest religion ever conceived.

It makes pantheism look sensible.

2 posted on 12/08/2007 5:31:58 AM PST by Tribune7 (Dems want to rob from the poor to give to the rich)
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To: Tribune7
Imagine no religion

Then atheists would complain about Sex.

3 posted on 12/08/2007 5:34:27 AM PST by usmcobra (I sing Karaoke the way it was meant to be sung, drunk, badly and in Japanese)
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To: Man50D

Establishment of no religion is a religion.


4 posted on 12/08/2007 5:34:38 AM PST by Always Right
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To: Man50D

Having once been an atheist and having an ex husband who is one, I can tell you from personal experience that they are extremely angry people who feel sorry for themselves.

Fortunately I FINALLY came to my senses - divorced him and became a Christian!


5 posted on 12/08/2007 5:35:11 AM PST by proudofthesouth (Liberalism IS a mental illness.)
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To: Man50D

they’re not really atheists folks; they’re anti Christians. (they hate Christianity to the depths of their bones and Christians even more, if that’s possible.
if they can kill off Christianity they can become the neo-stalins of their generation, with glee.)


6 posted on 12/08/2007 5:35:42 AM PST by ripley
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To: Man50D
An atheist is someone without religion. Such a person might shake their head at believers, but after all, what is it to the atheist? No big deal.

But an anti-theist is someone who campaigns against religion. The beliefs of the anti-theist are strong, and they work to destroy competing faiths.

I've known only a few atheists: Nice folks,generally.
I've known far more anti-theists: Nasty lot, each and every one.

7 posted on 12/08/2007 5:37:41 AM PST by ClearCase_guy (The broken wall, the burning roof and tower. And Agamemnon dead.)
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To: ripley

Sounds to me just like the Democrat Party.


8 posted on 12/08/2007 5:39:23 AM PST by gunnedah
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To: Man50D
The atheists say religion inspired the attacks of 9/11.

So, what inspired Stalin, Mao, etc?
9 posted on 12/08/2007 5:40:58 AM PST by Lord Basil
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To: Man50D

WHEN JESUS CAME TO OUR TOWN
By G. A. Studdert-Kennedy

When Jesus came to Golgotha
They hanged Him on a tree,
They drove great nails through hands and feet,
And made a Calvary;

They crowned Him with a crown of thorns,
Red were His wounds and deep,
For those were crude and cruel days,
And human flesh was cheap.

When Jesus came to our town,
They simply passed Him by,
They never hurt a hair of Him,
They only let Him die;

For men had grown more tender,
And they would not give Him pain,
They only just passed down the street,
And left Him in the rain.

Still Jesus cried, “Forgive them,
For they know not what they do,”
And still it rained the winter rain
That drenched Him through and through;

The crowds went home and left the streets
Without a soul to see,
And Jesus crouched against a wall
And cried for Calvary.


10 posted on 12/08/2007 5:41:29 AM PST by victim soul
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To: Man50D

A Soviet gulag, Pol Pot’s killing fields, etc come to mind as much more appropriate pictures for one to imagine there is no religion


11 posted on 12/08/2007 5:42:10 AM PST by RippinGood
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To: Man50D

Yep, atheists right down there with the animals in being unaware that life could not come from a mud puddle anymore than your car did. How can any thinking human believe in spontaneous generation of complex living systems?


12 posted on 12/08/2007 5:42:12 AM PST by Neoliberalnot
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To: Man50D
Two points:

The atheists say religion inspired the attacks of 9/11

1. Though true, religious "Islamic radicalism" did inspire the 9/11 attacks, by putting all religion on equal footing by not qualifying which religion attacked us makes them either disingenuous at best or simply propagandist or fools

2. I think it's a great idea to ask people to think "Imagine No Religion" thinking about that concept would make people realize why 95 % of the people living on this planet belive in some sort of deity

For every bad deed done in the name of "religion" there are 10,000 good deeds done

People of faith have nothing to fear from the 5% who are afraid to think there is something bigger than themselves

13 posted on 12/08/2007 5:43:38 AM PST by Popman (My doohickey is discombobulated)
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To: Neoliberalnot

I forgot to mention that all atheists suddenly get religion when death is imminent.


14 posted on 12/08/2007 5:44:28 AM PST by Neoliberalnot
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To: ClearCase_guy
An atheist is someone without religion.

That's a personal definition. A person without religion is said to be irreligious.
15 posted on 12/08/2007 5:51:55 AM PST by aruanan
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To: aruanan

An atheist has never set foot in a Fox Hole! Not one time since records have been kept.


16 posted on 12/08/2007 5:55:03 AM PST by Mojohemi
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To: ripley

Strange things about the aetheists, they say there is no God, but obviously, they take Him so very seriously that they “choose” to compete with Him in our public square at the precise time of His Son’s birth. Killing at birth seems to be a fetish for them. (Partial Birth defenders take heed)

I will say something for them though. They take Him so seriously that they will stand up in the media and the public square to insult Him and declare Him dead while we who claim to love and believe in Him stay inside our comfort zones of home and hearth and mutter under our breath.


17 posted on 12/08/2007 5:55:30 AM PST by victim soul
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To: proudofthesouth

Douglas revealed the heart of an atheist in a two-part statement: “There is no God, and I hate Him.”


18 posted on 12/08/2007 5:57:03 AM PST by BibChr ("...behold, they have rejected the word of the LORD, so what wisdom is in them?" [Jer. 8:9])
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To: proudofthesouth

That should be:

Douglas WILSON revealed the heart of an atheist in a two-part statement: “There is no God, and I hate Him.”


19 posted on 12/08/2007 5:57:29 AM PST by BibChr ("...behold, they have rejected the word of the LORD, so what wisdom is in them?" [Jer. 8:9])
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To: ClearCase_guy

“An atheist is someone without religion. Such a person might shake their head at believers, but after all, what is it to the atheist? No big deal.”

Works for me, and i do not even bother with the head shaking.


20 posted on 12/08/2007 5:58:19 AM PST by Bogtrotter52 (Reading DU daily so you won't hafta)
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