Atheists Set Up 'Religion-Free' Fund for Haiti Relief

The Christian Post ^ | Jan. 18 2010 | Nathan Black

[Califreak]

Atheism seems to be a religion unto itself.

They are zealous in their disbelief or as I see it-hatred for God.

[T Minus Four]

Todd Freil (of “Wretched” radio and TV programs) described atheists as holding two firm beliefs:

1) There is no God
2) I hate Him!

[GunRunner]

Where does the sense of wrong or right “doing” come from anyway? Do you lie? Thou shall not lie. Do you steal? Thou shall not steal. Do you commit adultery? Get the picture?

You almost ran out of Commandments. Thou shall not bear false witness is the last one that I really follow.

I honor my father and mother because I love them and they've treated me with nothing but love since I've been born. I have some friends who don't honor their parents and rightfully so, since they had really crappy parents.

I don't keep the Sabbath day holy, whatever that means. I suspect that this has something to do with the fact that when I tried to buy a 12 pack of beer at 11:56am on Sunday on my way to a friend's house for the Cowboy game, I had to wait 4 minutes because of state law. I guess it's immoral to buy beer before noon on Sundays.

I don't make idols because I don't have the inclination, but don't think its immoral if someone wants to erect a statue of Luke Skywalker and worship it; that's their business.

I could go on, but the point is that if the Ten Commandments are the foundation for your morality, then we clearly have different values.

And my values support helping people in need, without any supernatural directive, and I don't care if you covet any of my stuff.

[dps.inspect]

Hey don't get me wrong on this whole discussion, anyone who wishes to help and gives out of his resources is OK by me, even if he is an atheist. And discussing the deep things of life in a forum like this hardly results in more than a tit for tat, and I don't really see this conversation heading for anything more than that. I will end with this however... Atheists insist there is no God and some fight to have God removed from the marketplace of ideas. If the atheist could “care less” then why care at all, live it up and die happy no mater who gets run over. If evolution is the "non-god god", then the fittest among us should survive and do away with the unwanteds.

[GunRunner]

Atheists don't really "insist" that there's no God. Most (maybe not all) say that the worlds holy books are all man made. It's not insistence at all, it's basically saying that the concept of God as defined by the world's religions is rather unlikely, as is the divine nature of holy books.

I don't say this as a defined atheist; I've never called myself that. If you are so insistent on some man made term, the most accurate description I can give of my ideas on the supernatural are "theological noncognitivist".

[dps.inspect]

Oh boy, you’ve been in school too long... but I’ll bet your a great guy though... have a good rest of your week and god bless.

[Allegra]

Atheists seem to love to call attention to the fact that they are atheists.

[MaxMax]

It must pain them to have money.