I have no issue with atheism when it is respectful others' beliefs and when it is thoughtful and educated. Just as I have no problem with religion when it is respectful of others' beliefs and when it is thoughtful and educated.
Your post was neither respectful nor educated and thoughtful. It...
To many of us and certainly to me this is just too fine a point to be of any significance. So you have some petty quibbles with some other idea of say sin, or maybe OSAS troubles you. Perhaps you reject the idea of hell.Maybe you believe six days of creation, a magic tree, a magic apple and a...
To pick up the above; I think for me and folks like Sam harris and Hitchens (gone but forgotten) for us it is NOT god we argue against. God(s) do not exist. It is the BELIEF in gods we are concerned with. We are stuck by this truism: No one ever died or killed for a god they didn't believe in...
But that is exactly his point.
It ISN'T kind, whatever the intent, whatever the believer thinks. It is at best inconsiderate at worst insulting.
Suppose you were in a similar situation, dealing with some serious medical condition and I told you, in all sincerity, "I will pray to Athena. She...
That is only the clinical definition. The more common one is, anyone who enjoys inflicting pain, not necessarily sexual in nature. By THAT defination your god is one of the most sadistic characters ever invented.
I notice you don't say anything I asserted about your fable is WRONG. You only can bring yourself to say "also" as if that excused at all. Or that many "modern liberal wishy-washy devil deceived so-called Christians" (remember that?) have so diluted CHrist's message of judgment and eternal...
How can the living, perfect, infallible word of the one true god be so - inexact? Every letter of every word, on every page is perfect. Not so much as a comma can be altered. Yet you guys can't agree.
Passing strange.
I believe god(s) do not exist, nor the Easter Bunny, nor that a $1millon check is my mail box. But ALL of those MIGHT be true. But I'm not expecting any of them.
Or put another way I have the same expectation, belief, certainty, that god(s) do not exist that I have that The Tooth Fairy does...
You need to define "petty."
If you mean their arguments are nit picking, raise small issues of no major import, make small differences seem large then NO they are not petty.
IF you mean they can be cutting, sarcastic, blunt as a hammer, subtle as black jack, rude as a drunk at a party; IF...
No it NOT. It is EXACTLY what their god tells them to do.
It is what their book of fables says, look it up. They are following - to the letter- exactly what the bible tells them to do. OF COURSE it is a hateful message. Look where it came from. A book filled on every page with hate, killing...
I have NO idea what you are complaining about. None!
I was never defending these nuts any more than I "defend" any religious fanatics. I was pointing out IF YOU HAD READ IT that what they are doing what they are saying is being true to their 'Faith." This crap they preach IS the faith. It IS...
I found this on facebook. Wish I'd written it.
An Atheist’s Open Letter to Those Praying for His Son | Divided Under God
Frankly, when I hear, "i'm praying for you , my skin crawls."