This ends immediately. Personal comments and insults about other users are not allowed in this forum: this is not a debate about the morality of an individual user, it’s about ideas.
That’s not a problem. It’s a feature. Public schools are, as the name implies, educational institutions. They’re not churches. You might as well complain that the problem with supermarkets is that they can’t put up Christian decorations because they might offend their heathen shoppers. Well, no shit.
Is studying evolution in school an endorsement of atheism ?
Or rather,
If the study of evolution is not an endorsement of atheism is banning the study of evolution an attack on atheists ?
Look, Johnny-come-lately, I put that in giant text because GEEPERS has been asked that question 30 times and ignored it every time.
And no. Evolution and atheist have nothing to do with one another.
Since the topic here is idiotically incorrect and there will be no convincing GEEPERS that no one lost any rights and that only a wrong has been corrected… I’m not even going to get invested in this argument.
I do find it amusing that an atheist, in some people’s viewpoint, cannot have a moral compass and must be vulgar. I think I lost some brain cells while reading this thread.
Mighty weak, and certainly off-topic.
I finally accepted a diety two years ago–so far I have lost 29 poundsies!
Did you see my post. I made the message public
I only left out
the salutation and amen.
Not your problem obviously. Yes, they aren’t churches or mosques although at one time, all education was provided by those private institutions.
Why complain about supermarkets ? Any supermarket can promote a religion if they wanted to. How about a kosher grocer .
Do you REALLY want to have the discussion about what Christians “take pleasure” in doing to minority groups?
I disagree. You aren’t promoting atheism when you are teaching evolution in school, but you are going to offend a whole lot of atheists if you ban the teaching of evolution .
Tell me you wouldn’t be offended if such was the case.
Take it to a new thread. As it is, this one is veering far off-topic. And to that end, GEEPERS, please try to stay on topic- you have a tendency to change the subject a lot, and when that’s done regularly it makes discussions less productive.
The thing you need to remember is that “atheists” are not a monolithic group. The are united in thought by nothing save their shared lack of belief in a God. Therefore asking what “an atheist” would do in this situation makes no sense.
My hope, though, is that any person, believer or not, would say, “How can I help? What can I do to ease your suffering?” Whether it’s having a discussion, watching a movie together, offering to do the friend’s laundry or wash the dishes or make some meals, or, yes, pray if that’s what the hypothetical sick friend asks for, the best course of action in this case would be compassion.
Compassion and religion are not equivalent.
You have made blanket statements about others beliefs, while pointing out blanket statements about Christian beliefs. Your strawman rebuttals are nothing more then yelling fire in a movie theatre.
And yet, you call someone else delusional.
The Bible teaches us that we are not to throw stumbling blocks in front of our brothers. Do you think your strawman remarks, blanket statements, and calling people names gives anyone in this thread a notion of coming to Christ? Or do they see a hypocrite?
No, why would it be ? Evolution is not a religious theory, it’s a scientific one. Plenty of self-determined Christians have no beef with evolution.
I read through this thread, and I think I can summarise GEEPERS’ position:
- there is only one true religion and it is Protestant Christianity
- the US Constitution is all very well, but it’s far less important than the traditions of the one true religion
- everybody knows that atheists meet regularly to plot the overthrow of the one true religion
- the banner wasn’t about the one true religion and it was too
- once you put any limitations on the one true religion, you are trying to kill God
- only worshippers of the one true religion have rights
No, but banning the study of evolution is an attack on science, on education, and (if we’re talking about the USA) on the future competetiveness of American science and industry.
Very well, then post #276 should be considered a violation. Of course, I noticed you continue to pick on me most of the time. I have no problem following the rules, but I don’t appreciate it when they are not applied to atheists.
Post #287 is flaming.
I *have *been called a flamer before, but . . .
No, it’s not.
It would be an attack on science and reason, which absolutely belong in public schools.