I was just kind of curious.
I have only seen a couple of people here that say they are Atheists but don’t seem to espouse an antagonistic attitude toward others that have a religious faith.
I’m not here to convert anyone to anything and I sorta don’t care what your beliefs are, why do you care what those beliefs are in others?
I was just whizzing through the Christian bumper sticker thread. Do some of you people realize how silly you sound to others that DON’T share your belief system?
Why does the sight of a Christian bumper sticker, a nativity scene or a someone mentioning God just twist your panties up in a bunch?
And the insistence of replacing the word “christ” with an X is just plain silly.
There are many athiests who are assholes. Posting things online that they would never say in person.
There are also many Christians. Some of whom are assholes
As an athiest speaking up-- I really just wish that when I’m trapped at a busy intersection and some zealot is yelling into his megaphone to let me know that I’m doomed to suffer in his own personal version of God’s hell… Well, I just wish I was driving car with a poorly tuned diesel. under the hood.
VROOOM!
“Inhale the holy smoke, you fool!”
Live and let live, the Golden Rule, “do unto others…”
I think you should look around a bit more. There are numerous posters who identify themselves as atheist who respect the beliefs of religious people.
Turn your next quoted statement around. Do you realize how silly some religious types sound to others (sometimes other religious people) who don’t share their belief system?
Using X for Christ is an ancient Christian practice, the Roman X looking, as it does, very much like the Greek Chi, [symbol]C[/symbol], the first letter of the Greek word [symbol]Cristos[/symbol] (Christos).
I agree with Tom. At Straight Dope, there are one or two hand-stabbers on the atheist side and one or two hell-fire-and-brimstoners on the Christian side. Other than that, most people are fairly respectful of one another. When Diogenes, for example, pokes fun at Jack Chick, he is most certainly not poking fun at Jesus’ message of love, but at the clown who has mangled it. And when I poke fun of the American Atheist organization, I mean no disrespect to those who uphold man’s natural nobility. I’m just knocking what amounts to politicians from the Church of Atheism.
In a sense, He worships goodness. It is the aesthetic that He values above all others. As C. S. Lewis observed, if God knew of a being more good than He, He would worship it.
I care not if you have a bumper sticker on your car, a nativity on your lawn or if you pray to god as you walk down the street.
I do not want to see proclamations of christianity or any other religion on state or government facilities. This includes public schools, as it is not their job to indoctrinate children into a particular religious tenet.
It’s an abbreviation.
I don’t hate anyone for being religious, I only hate some people’s actions and thoughts.
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For some reason my previous post didn’t turn out the way I planned. This paragraph:
I care not if you have a bumper sticker on your car, a nativity on your lawn or if you pray to god as you walk down the street.
I do not want to see proclamations of christianity or any other religion on state or government facilities. This includes public schools, as it is not their job to indoctrinate children into a particular religious tenet.
Didn’t see your post,Lib, before I posted in the other thread.
I don’t buy it though.
For God to worship anything means that there is a higher power than himself. That doesn’t wash with what we are told about Him. The bible makes that case that there are NO other Gods before him, therefore what He might do if confronted with a deity more good (better?) than himself is moot.
There is no God before him, therefore He is an athiest.
isn’t that the old messianic martyr cult that enganges in ritual symbolic
flesh eating and blood drinking?:eek: It’s just repackaged Mithraism, right down to the “virgin birth.” I hear that they believe that if you don’t believe like they do, THEIR god will make you suffer forever, regardless of which god you actually worship. When individuals spout this crap they call it psychosis. When a group does, they call it a religion.
Atheists would naturally tend to focus their opposition to all religion on the one dominant religion, which in the WEstern world is Christianity. In Israel I imagine that atheists appear to resent mostly Judaism, and in the Islamic world, Islam.
I sure do not hate most Christians, Muslims, worshippers of the Great Gadzook.
I simply think they are severely deluded and misguided. We ought to treat them kindly and gently - like small children who will one day wake up frm a nightmare.
The proselytizing variety of religious folk I can say I actively dislike, along with the same variety of environmentalists, political types and, dare I say it, fellow atheists.