Posted on 02/26/2014 4:35:25 PM PST by lbryce
"It is an attack on God Himself."
This was how Brent Bozell, founder of the conservative Media Research Center, felt about the prospect of representatives from the American Atheists attending the upcoming Conservative Political Action Conference, the annual gathering of conservative leaders and organizations in Washington, D.C. On Tuesday, the Atheists announced they would host a booth at the conference next week; within hours, they had been disinvited. The group "misrepresented itself about their willingness to engage in positive dialogue and work together to promote limited government," a CPAC spokesperson told the Washington Post yesterday.
The American Atheists were invited—and then uninvited—from the Conservative Political Action Conference. Why?
The American Atheists disagree. "America’s religious conservatives can deny it all they want, but soon they’re going to realize that ignoring the growing number of atheist constituents is a losing proposition,” the organization's president, David Silverman, said in a press release. He says his group had been in conversation with conference's planning committee about 2015, offering up ideas for future atheist keynoters. Despite this year's snub, the Atheists are willing to reopen dialogue with CPAC about "the importance of religious equality," Silverman said.
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Your Faith is no doubt like love — something that’s natural to experience but complicated to describe. The Atheist says your experience in Faith is a fallacy. But the Atheist cannot comprehend your experience in denying its existence, and is therefore a fraud or an idiot.
What’s weird is this sudden demand to be recognized as a group to be pandered to.
That's precisely how I feel about it. You don't need to be religious to understand right from wrong and have a fundamental sense of what works in the world. But organizing as a whiny little group around the common cause of not believing in god is just pathetic.
I ask those questions but I’m happy with the answer: “I don’t know’”
I have heard this song before....
I'd love to teach
The world to sing
In perfect harmony
Yet here you are engaging in it.
B$.
I just don't see how atheists, who are willing or unwilling minions of the devil, who tirelessly work to weaken and destroy Christian civilization and to slander and mock God and His only begotten Son... I don't see how they logically fit under the "conservative' label.
Works for me.
LOL! Yeah. The concern warms the cockles of my heart.
Another atheist trap. :)
Really? Then why don't you have your own Conference at the same time next door? Let's see how many people show up at each.
Oh. By the way. I couldn't help but notice that "atheist Conservatives" morphed into "atheist constituents".
Atheists and homosexuals are trying to infiltrate the Republican party to dilute the Conservative message.
Let them bleat about what a powerful force their dozens of votes would bring to our candidates. Letting
them in would be a terrible mistake for the Republicans and for the TEA Party.
This is a hard-line issue, and we must not falter.
Thou sayest.
One has to KNOW me to understand me. I don't know any atheists, so how can one understand me? How can ATHEISTS, in general, understand me? Can't have it both ways.
1. By the way, how do YOU know the workings of ANY atheist mind?
2. Also, are you speaking for ALL atheists?? That would be odd.
Two things:
1. Faith IS a gift. It doesn't SEEM to matter to you if you have it or not. You obviously DON'T but then why would you care?
2. You SEEM to be the poster-child for "ignorance is bliss." I don't mean that in a nasty way. Perhaps you neither know nor care what happens to you after you super-short life. Perhaps you were never taught that being good will allow you to spend eternity with our Creator and being EVIL all the time will allow you to burn in hell for all eternity.
Perhaps you were taught that there is no good or bad except in your very own perception...and maybe you think you are always good.
Children have concepts like this because it was what they were taught. I guess you were taught NOTHING like this. Perhaps you were and you somehow MISSED "getting it."
In any case, it's your immortal soul, not mine. Lots of luck to ya.
My, you say, NO DOUBT, and describe my faith. You apparently can't be aware of how arrogant that sounds. Who are YOU to describe my faith? "NO DOUBT"? Lol. You must be one heck of a long-distance mind/soul/heart reader!
Why is love natural to experience? There ARE people who never experienced it. One Russian mass murderer comes to mind. He was the "red ripper" and was finally put to death. He never did get love. He was a bed wetter and his mother beat him multiple times every single day of his life, RELENTLESSLY. He NEVER knew ANY love from anyone. The story of his life was on "biography" one day. HORRIFIC story.
I would NEVER, EVER, EVER call an atheist a fraud or an idiot. Why would I do that? If s/he called ME that, I would, no doubt, consider the source and let it go. MAYBE I would pray for that person. I dunno. I never met an atheist.
You’re right, I shouldn’t have pointed to you when describing the similar, intangible, abstract nature of Faith and love. I apologize.
But as you point out, to know another person’s “love”, one would have to be a mind/soul/heart reader. Wouldn’t the same be required to know another person’s Faith?
The Atheist says your God does not exist. How many Atheists told you otherwise?
>> By the way, how do YOU know the workings of ANY atheist mind?
I know what the Atheist says. And when the Atheist says another person’s God is fictitious, the Atheist is violating your obvious sensitivities about personal belief.
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