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by QueenR eats the Terminator for breakfast on March 11th, 2009
Do you blindly assume that Atheists have no morals?
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Do you think Darwin was an atheist?
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Where there are atheists, life is _______________ ?
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How much pain would it cause you to have an Atheist child or Atheist children? Why?
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Is a "spiritual atheist" a contradiction in terms since atheists do not believe in spirits/ souls?
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When was the last time an Atheist knocked at door on a Sunday morning and tried to make you believe in Darwin?
When was the last time an Atheist told you that if you didn't become one of them, you'll [yaddah yaddah yaddah - fill in the blank]?
When was the last time an Atheist went to your church and tried to change your teachings there?
When was the last time an Atheist put a disclaimer sticker on your Bible?
When was the last time an Atheist tried to change the laws to force you to [pray, have an abortion, use contraceptive, seek the advice of a doctor, etc. etc.]?
When was the last time an Atheist car bombed you?
by Rinky Dinky Do on March 11th, 2009
Well none of those things to me have been done by Religious people to me.
Last time I saw anything atheist it was trying to persuade Christians to not believe in God.
by QueenR eats the Terminator for breakfast on March 11th, 2009
I seriously doubt that but you're free to think whatever you want for as long as it doesn't affect me which, in short, means don't do any of the things that I listed above. Coincidentally, you may wanna look again because all the above has - and is - being done in the name of a false god
by Rinky Dinky Do on March 11th, 2009
That may be your opinion, but to the people that do them their God is real.
by QueenR eats the Terminator for breakfast on March 11th, 2009
"trying to persuade Christians to not believe in God" is not hostility. And if it was, then the armies of Christian missionarys must outnumber atheist who try to teach reason by orders of magnitude.
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I've never heard of an atheist say believers will suffer for eternity, or wage war over some minor point of logic, or even stoop the silly levels of hostility available on AB.
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I can't count the number of times I've had various threats made by the lams of god.
by 23Skidoo on March 11th, 2009
QueenR: that's the point. It is my opinion and you (& all the likes of you) refuse to respect it. Why should I respect yours? I do realize that to y'all, your god is real, disturbing I know but it's your delusion not ours. We don't shove anything down your throat. However, even when their/your god exists only in your minds, you think and feel that you're entitled & justified to shove that down our throats. If we reject you, you're free to do whatever it takes from verbal threats to a bat to the knees but yet, we're hostile. Does that make sense to you? Does that sound hypocritical, biased and double standard to you or not?
by Rinky Dinky Do on March 11th, 2009
Well being mocked due to beliefs are hostility in my book.
by QueenR eats the Terminator for breakfast on March 11th, 2009
Rink was stating his opinion about god - an opinion well backed up by a conspicuous complete lack of evidence. There was no mockery.
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But I see you react to a perceived mockery as hostility but threats of eternal torment are just fine?
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Could we be approaching an answer to my original question? Some Christians don't see such threats and other harassment as hostility?
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I'm guessing - not trying to put words in your mouth. I am genuinely interested.
by 23Skidoo on March 11th, 2009
I wasn't talking about Rink, I am talking about peopel I know in the flesh.
by QueenR eats the Terminator for breakfast on March 11th, 2009
QueenR: feel free to scream persecution at any time...
by Rinky Dinky Do on March 11th, 2009
Why would I want to do that?
All I was saying was that I know some Atheists who mock others because of their beliefs. I'm not saying they are being persecuted.
by QueenR eats the Terminator for breakfast on March 11th, 2009
I see we aren't getting very far here :-)
Cheers
by 23Skidoo on March 11th, 2009
Do we ever, Skid? We're trying to make sense of circular logic...~sigh~
by Rinky Dinky Do on March 11th, 2009
I'm still trying to make sens of these last two comments...circular logic?
by QueenR eats the Terminator for breakfast on March 12th, 2009
Run around in a circle a few more times and feel free to lay down when you get dizzy
by Rinky Dinky Do on March 12th, 2009
Why on earth would I want to do that? Are you talking riddles or just plain crazy?
by QueenR eats the Terminator for breakfast on March 12th, 2009
I'm talking in Bible parlance. You should be able to understand that with no problems
by Rinky Dinky Do on March 12th, 2009
Well I don't understand as I have never read the bible.
by QueenR eats the Terminator for breakfast on March 12th, 2009
No, kidding'? Wow! What a surprise!
by Rinky Dinky Do on March 12th, 2009
You don't have to read the bible to believe in God, you know. I have my own beliefs. And so do you.
by QueenR eats the Terminator for breakfast on March 12th, 2009
I'm happy for you
by Rinky Dinky Do on March 14th, 2009
Are you? Well, that's nice.
by QueenR eats the Terminator for breakfast on March 14th, 2009
I disagree.
by Bohemian is back on May 18th, 2010
Anon - with what? whom?
:-)
by 23Skidoo on May 18th, 2010
With QueenR, but I think Rinky's comment covers the reason why. If there is any hostility in atheists to religious people it is of the religious people's making ie there comportment, their hounding, their condescending assumption that others who are not of their faith have somehow got it wrong and they are right. This is what engenders hatred. If they just stayed in their own backyard, atheists would not take umbridge, in fact, they might even feel sorry for them!;)
by Bohemian is back on May 18th, 2010