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To: OldSpice; Alamo-Girl; jimt; metmom; spirited irish; Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus; r9etb; xzins
If we did a good act merely from the love of God and a belief that it is pleasing to Him, whence arises the morality of the Atheist?

The atheist is living on "borrowed time," on the legacy of his ancestors, of whose insights and experiences over millennia he has no personal interest or sense of duty to understand, let alone defend, renew, or communicate to others.

That is, when it comes to the renewal of a good society from generation to generation he accepts no personal responsibility at all, which responsibility he in fact utterly repudiates from the get-go. In many cases, atheists believe they cannot advance their own causes unless and until the entire human past (religious, historical, and cultural) has been utterly laid waste, erased from human memory.

He is already a dead man walking — and trying to take down as many others of his own kind with him as he possibly can, to join him in a commonly shared eternal misery for all.

The atheist is a parasite, drawing its life from a culture that its entire being is devoted to draining the life out of. It is a case of protracted suicide, in slow motion. It destroys not only the atheist in the end, but any society in which the atheist voice/mind achieves cultural dominance.

52 posted on 09/18/2009 2:38:24 PM PDT by betty boop (Without God man neither knows which way to go, nor even understands who he is. —Pope Benedict XVI)
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To: betty boop
"The atheist is a parasite, drawing its life from a culture that its entire being is devoted to draining the life out of. It is a case of protracted suicide, in slow motion. It destroys not only the atheist in the end, but any society in which the atheist voice/mind achieves cultural dominance."

Nonsense.

It took the thorough cleansing by the Secular Reformation and the Age of Reason, for religion to be civilised. Before that, men and women were being burnt at the stake, stretched, whipped and decapitated over nonsensical religious dogma.

53 posted on 09/18/2009 2:57:42 PM PDT by OldSpice
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To: betty boop

Excellent post.


119 posted on 09/19/2009 3:55:22 PM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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