Posted on 12/01/2001 10:28:24 AM PST by Brian Kopp DPM
Hope I got that right ;-)
theist...positive
agnostic..neutral
atheist...negative!
Therefore atheist means "without belief in god(s)."
To hamfistedly attempt to equate atheism with statism.
Doesn't do a very good job of it.
It's a poor flame that needs dishonesty to stoke it.
The good news is eternal life offered unconditionally. See post #35. There is no light in condemnation of a conclusion that can neither be proven, or disproven. Without light, there is darkness.
Heck, religion is killing us again. The events on Sept. 11th were driven by religion.
Religion strikes again.
It's not the benevolent spiritualism of the individual I am against just the organized "holier than thou" crapola that has layed waste to countless innocents in human history.
The title is false. You'd understand if the article was entitled: What has Religion Done For Us Lately , and the first sentence was:
"I have a question for those who believe the religion that inspired killing of tens of thousands of innocents at the WTC is to be recommended over an appreciation of a more rational way of life."I have no problem with anyone's religion as long as it values the welfare of its members. But if the moron who wrote this is going to slander all atheist in the title, only to start discussing something or someone else in the first sentence, then I'll point out what an idiot he is. You see, thickheaded newbies like Norvokov still don’t get it.
Not per se, but still sinful, at least according to several thousands years of Judeo-Christian morality.
OK, so that's not it. Masturbation is OK;
No, still sinful, at least according to several thousands years of Judeo-Christian morality.
condoms are bad
Your analogy is what is bad. Condoms are neither good nor bad; they just are. They are highly ineffective and, along with the advent of the pill, helped to engender the sexual revolution, with its skyrocketing rates of marital infidelity/divorce, extramarital sex, STD's and eventually abortion on demand to clean up the "failures" of the contraceptive mentality/lifestyle.
These things are "bad."
Communism killed thirty-five million people in China alone.
It's not that I want to defend a false religion like Islam, but atheism is a lie as well.
Sorry, but that's very wrong. It's:
apolitical--without politics
asymmetric--without symmetry
atheist -- ( well… you get the idea.)
Better now? ;-)
That is your opinion, and you are clearly entitled to your opinion. That said, this author is not in ignorance. He defines his subset and makes observations that are indeed correct.
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This is a great example of setting up a straw man. Just because someone does not believe God exists does not mean they "worship" the state, any more than believing in God means one wants a theocracy. There are many, many, libertarian atheists.
Bill Clinton is a CINO. I am not positive, but I would say the odds are good, that he is, indeed, an atheist.
Hardly. In his actions he lived as a pragmatic atheist, i.e., even if he believes God exists, he does not let that impact his decisions or actions, and does not draw his guidelines for living from Judeo-Christian morality.
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