Posted on 05/04/2011 10:09:17 PM PDT by TheConservativeCitizen
Because Christians are less likely to hunt them down and kill them than...others.
If heretics get their feelings hurt in the process, does that make US wrong?
Galatians 4:16
Have I now become your enemy by telling you the truth?
And then we die.
Either ALL religions are wrong; or one of them is right.
Ah, the same reason that homos seek to have the government criminalize Christian beliefs -
it’s that internal voice, the law written on their hearts (Rom 2:14-15) that is constantly nagging at them,
and if ONLY there were no Christians, they believe, that voice would stop.
Indeed.
This is one thing that anti-Christians never seem to grasp when they ridicule Christians as “hypocrites”.
Yes, we understand that the standard of Christ is unachievable, and that no one is going to be able to live up to the standard that He set. That’s why He had to do what He did for us.
Conversely, non-Christians will define a “good person” at a very slightly lower standard than they are able to achieve, thus assuring their own self esteem as such a “good person”.
One thing is for sure, logically, they can’t ALL be right.
I suspect the reason is that they realize they are really trying to defend a position that they themselves take on faith: that the ground-of-being, the reason there is something, rather than nothing, is not enough like a person that we ought relate to It personally.
There is no actually rational basis for that belief, despite all their appeals to reason and science. So they must argue against the contrary belief — that the ground-of-being is sufficiently person-like that the old Scriptural verse “come let us make man in our image and likeness” makes sense, that we ought to relate to It (traditionally Him) personally (e.g. pray), and naturally that we ought be in awe of Him, He being the basis for existence, particularly in its radical form, that the the ground-of-being’s decisive self-revelation is a person, Jesus Christ, not a book of rules — by irrational means.
First among these irrational means is the reduction of God from the ground-of-being, transcendent in nature, properly incomparable with anything in our ordinary experience, to a grouchy, magical old man in the sky. (What I characterize as mistaking monotheism for “one god paganism”.) If one is really talking about the “straw god” the atheists set up to knock down, I dare say, all of the Fathers of the Church disbelieve in the existence of such a being.
What is most curious, is that the very intelligibility of the world, without which science, which atheists invariably assert they revere, would be impossible, is potent evidence for a likeness between the human mind and the ground-of-being.
Evolution is just a theory.
Because we don’t cut their heads off when they offend us?
Neither can two or more...
Thanks.
I wonder how atheists would confront a man who displays unearthly power and will command all men to worship him and take HIS mark?
A man will not fight to the death over what he knows to be true, only what he fears may not be true.
Exactly.
The Subtitle of this article is the Hitchen's statement:
“RELIGION SHOULD BE TREATED WITH RIDICULE, HATRED AND CONTEMPT”
Notice the "should". Atheism is necessarily foundationless. So any time an atheist utters words such as "should" or "ought" he is appealing to a transcendent moral standard, which is an implicit affirmation of the very thing that he purportedly refuses to believe: the reality of the transcendent.
Atheism as a theory is incoherent and groundless.
Cordially,
What...like the kinetic military action in Libya?
Sorry, but I support the troops and not the war.
How does a snowflake grow out of random water molecules?
Order in parts of a natural system can arise out of chaos.
How do bacterial populations develop into those more resistant to antibiotics? How do bacteria develop the ability to obtain nutrition from synthetic chemicals that were never present in the environment before?
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