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A word for nonbelievers (Billboard reaches out to atheists)
Philadelphia Enquirer ^ | Jun. 5, 2008 | David O'Reilly

Posted on 06/05/2008 7:57:03 AM PDT by Between the Lines

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1 posted on 06/05/2008 7:57:03 AM PDT by Between the Lines
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To: Between the Lines

Promoting a faith in nothing.

How New Age.


2 posted on 06/05/2008 7:58:08 AM PDT by Future Snake Eater (Personal Methane Reclamation: Break wind for energy independence!)
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To: Between the Lines

He wants God to show Himself then he will believe......lets see the guy is 70 - wont be long now.


3 posted on 06/05/2008 8:01:51 AM PDT by svcw (There is no plan B.)
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To: svcw

Yes, but how many will be mislead before he meets God?


4 posted on 06/05/2008 8:03:57 AM PDT by knittnmom (...surrounded by reality!)
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To: 80 Square Miles
Many I am sure.
I find these alleged atheists to be interesting.
They claim/ask God to reveal Himself then they will believe yet fail to see God when He does.
5 posted on 06/05/2008 8:07:01 AM PDT by svcw (There is no plan B.)
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To: svcw

“Son of man, you are living among a rebellious people. They have eyes to see but do not see and ears to hear but do not hear, for they are a rebellious people.” Ezekiel 12:2


6 posted on 06/05/2008 8:13:55 AM PDT by knittnmom (...surrounded by reality!)
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To: Between the Lines
"Don't believe in God?" it asks. "You are not alone."

Interestingly, the latter statement could be read as an assertion that God exists.
I just don't believe in atheists.

7 posted on 06/05/2008 8:14:06 AM PDT by SampleMan (We are a free and industrious people, socialist nannies do not become us.)
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To: Between the Lines

Inspirational Songs for Atheists

“I Can’t Even Imagine”
“A Mighty Fortress Is Our Dodge”
“If We Aren’t The Body”


8 posted on 06/05/2008 8:14:24 AM PDT by AppyPappy (If you aren't part of the solution, there is good money to be made prolonging the problem.)
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To: SampleMan

What atheists try to deny is that their non-belief is an

ACTIVE

choice to not believe in God.

Since it is an active choice concerning the existance of the Deity, it is a THEOLOGY.

No, cabbages and babies are not atheists, as they have not made the ACTIVE CHOICE to disbelieve in God.


9 posted on 06/05/2008 8:17:45 AM PDT by MrB (You can't reason people out of a position that they didn't use reason to get into in the first place)
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To: Between the Lines

Use the same billboard but right under the “you are not alone” line put pictures of Hitler, Mao and Stalin.


10 posted on 06/05/2008 8:18:16 AM PDT by joebuck (Finitum non capax infinitum!)
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To: 80 Square Miles
Yes, but how many will be mislead before he meets God?

Not many if people care about truth...However disturbing this may seem.

The responsibility to seek the truth is the individuals.

11 posted on 06/05/2008 8:19:38 AM PDT by sirchtruth (Yes, Chef!)
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To: Future Snake Eater
Nothing created everything
out of nothing
for no purpose whatsoever.
leaving life itself as meaningless.

And they mock me for being a Christian?

Willful blindness

12 posted on 06/05/2008 8:22:32 AM PDT by woollyone (100 rounds per week totals 5000 rounds in a year. Just thought you'd want to know.)
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To: SampleMan

“Interestingly, the latter statement could be read as an assertion that God exists.”

Had the same thought.

I am seldom alone, and when I am, I know I’ve done something repugnant to God and ask forgiveness.


13 posted on 06/05/2008 8:22:36 AM PDT by TheThirdRuffian (McCain is the best candidate of the Democrat party.)
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To: Between the Lines

Heh. I saw this billboard on the way home from the Phillies game the other night and thought it was a joke. It’s on the northbound side of 95 near Bridesburg. Now I figure it’s just a sneaky Democrat ad for Obama.


14 posted on 06/05/2008 8:23:36 AM PDT by Lancey Howard
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To: Between the Lines
What we want to do is give people questioning their beliefs a place to go for more information and to meet like-minded people.

Believers refer to such places as "church." :)

15 posted on 06/05/2008 8:24:23 AM PDT by pnh102 (Save America - Ban Ethanol Now!)
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To: sirchtruth
The responsibility to seek the truth is the individuals.

Then our prayer should be that the seekers find truth, not just a pleasant sounding alternative.

16 posted on 06/05/2008 8:24:32 AM PDT by knittnmom (...surrounded by reality!)
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To: Between the Lines
"It was just my own critical, rational thinking," he said Thursday with a shrug. "I accept that the universe began with the Big Bang, ....

Critical rational thinking????

As former atheist C.S. Lewis once said: There was a time when matter did not exist, but there has never been a time when nothing existed. Otherwise nothing would exist now.

17 posted on 06/05/2008 8:24:44 AM PDT by Mogollon (Vote straight GOP for congress....our only protection against Obama, or McCain.)
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To: Future Snake Eater

I listened to Dr. Jeremiah today talk about the parallels between the fall of Israel for not following God’s command to extinguish the Baal worshipers when they came into Canaan with Joshua but instead they tolerated them and it caused issues during the time of the Judges and what is happening today with the Pluralism of today. Very striking similarity.


18 posted on 06/05/2008 8:33:34 AM PDT by Resolute Conservative
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To: LeGrande

Ping.

Shouldn’t you be over here carrying the water for the athiests?


19 posted on 06/05/2008 8:39:29 AM PDT by colorcountry (To anger a conservative, lie to him. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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To: Future Snake Eater

**form a coalition. **

Not a good sign. Prayers that all of them will suddenly one day, realize the magnificance of God and come back to HIM.


20 posted on 06/05/2008 8:48:23 AM PDT by Salvation (†With God all things are possible.†)
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