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To: GunRunner

Judge a tree by it’s fruit.

An atheist is dangerous to his fellow man, because of his spiritual viewpoint. He is his own god. And that makes him seriously dangerous to mankind. Think Pol Pot or Stalin.

An agnostic just isn’t sure. A Christian is, and an atheist is. If you’re not sure, then you are an agnostic.

Regarding Christians having doubt, it is the specifics of our belief in which we have doubt. e.g. I’m a mid-tribulationist, but I acknowledge that I may be interpreting prophesy wrong. That puts me in very good company, however, because even the apostle Paul, religious scholar though he was, didn’t “see the lignt”, literally until confronted by Jesus himself.

There are very few atheists.


133 posted on 07/06/2012 10:20:53 AM PDT by cuban leaf (Were doomed! Details at eleven.)
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To: cuban leaf
An atheist is dangerous to his fellow man, because of his spiritual viewpoint. He is his own god. And that makes him seriously dangerous to mankind.

This is just absolute crap. You're demonstrating that you also don't understand atheism either.

An agnostic just isn’t sure. A Christian is, and an atheist is.

This whole idea of being "sure" is something you've invented in your mind. NOBODY is sure, and not being sure doesn't make you an agnostic, as I've already explained in detail; detail which you chose to ignore.

In your worldview, the non-believer is more dangerous than the child molester. While the child molester might violate the child in this life, a non-believer could state an opinion that changes your child's mind about Christianity, and damn their souls for eternity. You would then, by all rational accounts be justified in killing someone so dangerous, simply because they have a different opinion about the existence of God.

So no buddy, actually your viewpoint is more dangerous to mankind, and we have several millennia of religious wars, conflict, and genocide to prove it.

And don't regurgitate this crap about Pol Pot and Stalin killing in the name of atheism. They co-opted religious idealism and transplanted it to a cult of personality; Stalinism and the Khymer Rouge were religious fanatics, to the religion of the state.

I challenge you to tell me where men have committed genocide in the name of Einstein, Spinoza, Jefferson, Paine, and Carl Sagan. Don't look long, because you won't find them.

134 posted on 07/06/2012 3:22:22 PM PDT by GunRunner (***Not associated with any criminal actions anonymus by the ATF***)
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