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To: CottShop

I am not endangering anyone by being atheist. I think Jesus was a very wise and kind man. I just don’t believe he was the son of God (a god, whatever one is comfortable with). That doesn’t mean I expect anyone else to think or believe the same and it serves as NO THREAT to anyone. People’s religious views are personal. Why should anyone attack them?


22 posted on 04/05/2009 9:25:36 PM PDT by MissTickly
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To: MissTickly
Atheism is philosophically unsound, proceeding as it does from unproven and unprovable premises. Philosophical problems aside, however, the practical reason atheism must be attacked is because the worldview that develops naturally from atheism is ultimately nihilistic and anti-human, and a society based upon atheism will become likewise (e.g. USSR, PRC, etc.). I won't belabor the issue, but at the most basic level the atheist worldview holds that no absolute, transcendent standard of moral value exists; right and wrong become therefore a matter of personal opinion, which means that Might Makes Right.

I mean no disrespect, but I would ask you to carefully examine the philosophical bases of atheism and reconsider them in the light of reason. The greatest minds the human race has ever produced all found atheism to be bankrupt and unsatisfactory; I suspect that, upon serious reflection, you will as well.

26 posted on 04/05/2009 9:49:39 PM PDT by B-Chan (Catholic. Monarchist. Texan. Any questions?)
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To: MissTickly

[[I am not endangering anyone by being atheist.]]

I am referrign to those atheists who are trying to change our constitution, change our way of life, and force everyoen to accept their ‘moral values’- I don’t htink you fall into that category

[[People’s religious views are personal. Why should anyone attack them?]]

Beleive me a great many atheists are doing just that today- I might also add secularists to that category- A prime example of atheists tryign to force their minority view on the majority of Americans who hols the universal moral code in high esteme are people like Michael Neudow who is personally attackign Christian values, and tryign to tear down our constitution and moral values

My post was NOT directed at individual atheists who are content allowing America to be made up of many different faiths or a non faith if one so chooses, like yourself, but rather it was directed at activist atheists and secularists who won’t be happy till our country has denied God and destroyed itself in the process


30 posted on 04/05/2009 10:18:30 PM PDT by CottShop (Scientific belief does not constitute scientific evidence, nor does it convey scientific knowledge)
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