Atheist Alliance Applauds Jimmy Carter for Challenging Religious Values

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[Ethan Clive Osgoode]

Atheist Alliance International, an atheists rights and pro-separation of church and state group, praised former United States president and devout Christian Jimmy Carter for having the courage and integrity to condemn his own church and religious community for their use of scripture to justify and promote the ongoing oppression of women. In an article published in TheAge.com, an Australian newsmagazine, the former president explained how he came to the difficult decision of leaving the U.S. Southern Baptist Convention, severing all ties after 60 years a member, based on its perpetuation of the biblical values of women as subservient and inferior. Carter went on to explain how this very dated and, frankly, immoral value system permeates far too many religious beliefs and he concludes with a call for all people and faiths to find “the courage to challenge these views.”“Atheist Alliance International heartily agrees with Mr. Carter and applauds his own courage for not only having the willingness to point out that the emperor of religious belief has no clothes but to act on his own convictions and remove himself from the participating and supporting of his own religious community for its continuing promotion of gender discrimination and oppression,” said AAI president Stuart Bechman. “Mr. Carter, in calling the leaders of his own faith community to task for supporting unjustifiable prejudices and stereotypes, is developing a reputation to open debates on subjects held to be taboo for far too long in our society,” Bechman said, adding, “We hope to see more public, private and world leaders exercise the conviction of fortitude and principle that Mr. Carter has practiced on these matters.

[Ethan Clive Osgoode]

You know you're doing something wrong when you get a round of applause from the Atheist Alliance.

It's a bit hard to believe that atheists have sincere concern about "gender oppression" or any such egalitarian issue. When they were in power in Russia, they got busy dynamiting churches, for example.

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[Lonely Bull]

Science damn you, United Atheist Alliance!

[DeaconRed]

Jimmah is such a good role model for atheist.
Also Communist, Dictators, Thugs, etc. etc.

[allmost]

They don't seem concerned about Carter's involvement and support of islamic regimes though. It's hard to find a more oppressive culture towards females than that. Seems they are not as anti-religious as they are anti-Christian.

[Ethan Clive Osgoode]

They don't seem concerned about Carter's involvement and support of islamic regimes though. It's hard to find a more oppressive culture towards females than that.

Well, like I said in post 1, they don't really give a damn about "gender oppression". It's just a convenient club to bash Christians. Oppressing Christians is what interests them. The Atheist Alliance is a hate group.

And it looks like they're having a convention soon. Bill Maher and Richard Dawkins will be there. Here's a promo poster. See? They're doin' it FOR YOUR KIDS!

I like what one German bishop said recently. "Wherever God is denied or fought against, there people and their dignity will soon be denied and held in disregard... A society without God is Hell on Earth."

Atheist Alliance -- bringing you Hell on Earth. For the children!

[avenir]

Atheists are spiritually dead parasites feeding off of a life provided for and sustained by the Living God they claim not to believe in but in reality reject. Paul's charge against the pagan world in Romans--"since they did not think it worthwhile to retain the knowledge of God, he gave them over to a depraved mind" 1:28--holds firm against modern "atheists".

The photo above is tragi-comic in its blindness. Paul said that God's reality and presence have been made clear "through what has been made" and that because of such no one has any excuse to disbelieve. Here Papa atheist shows the little one evidence of God's existence without even knowing it.

Blinded.

[Mother Mary]

Atheists are people who don’t know who their boss is...yet.

[Tax-chick]

Is the sheepherder outfit supposed to suggest “Brokeback Mountain”? I guess the little girl is adopted.

[50sDad]

"Men, love your wives as Christ loved the church,=."

Anyone recall what Christ did for the church? These guys don't seem to be taking note of how Islam "oppresses" women. Probably because Christians have been taught to try to love those who seek to hurt them, and Muslims are taught...well, you know.

Anyway, don't try to impress me with how "concerned" they are over the plight of women if Christianity is their first beachhead.

[50sDad]

Second try without the extra characters...

"Men, love your wives as Christ loved the church."

Anyone recall what Christ did for the church? These guys don't seem to be taking note of how Islam "oppresses" women. Probably because Christians have been taught to try to love those who seek to hurt them, and Muslims are taught...well, you know.

Anyway, don't try to impress me with how "concerned" they are over the plight of women if Christianity is their first beachhead.

[lionheart 247365]

Oh Jimma ,,,,always lookin out for the rogues .

[A Strict Constructionist]

“he came to the difficult decision of leaving the U.S. Southern Baptist Convention, severing all ties after 60 years a member”

I thought that Churches were members of the SBC and that Church Members were delegates to the SBC.

I guess Jimmy is his own church.