Posted on 02/11/2010 7:34:10 PM PST by SeekAndFind
Atheists (as shown in the above sentence) are "legends in their OWN mind".
...it seems important to deflate the myths that prevent them from playing a larger role in our national discourse.
Thanks for the offer, but no thanks. The religion of atheism (moral relativism) has done enough already to ruin a great country that was founded on Christian principles (not "religous principles" as in Muslim, Buddhist or secular humanist, but CHRISTIAN PRINCIPLES).
Atheism has given us abortion, homosexuality, pornography, prostitution, as well as drug and alcohol abuse. Really, we appreciate your gracious offer to do "more" for our society, but really, you've done enough already.
(Myth 2) Atheism is responsible for the greatest crimes in human history. People of faith often claim that the crimes of Hitler, Stalin, Mao and Pol Pot were the inevitable product of unbelief. The problem with fascism and communism, however, is not that they are too critical of religion; the problem is that they are too much like religions..
Hitler (who DESPISED Christianity), Stalin, Mao and Pol Pot were "religous people". Their religion was a totalitarian government that wanted nothing to do with God. Because the almighty state was their "god", they hated anything or anyone that opposed their tyranny. In other words: when it came to being worshipped, they didn't want any "competition" from God.
100-200 million murdered under communist regimes since 1917. I wonder if they had believed in one of the most basic dogmas of Judaism and Christianity: "Thou Shalt Not Murder", if those innocent lives would have been spared.
But wait, there's more!
45 million innocent unborn babies murdered in the name of "choice" in the past 37 years (I highly doubt that the butchers at Planned Parenthood hold Christian worship services at the end of the day).
500,000 plus dead from the "gay disease" (if you asked homosexual's what their "religion" is, they'll laugh in your face if you talk to them about being "saved" by Jesus).
Yes, atheists are a "intelligent" bunch; so intelligent that they don't even realize that it is because of Christianity that they have the freedom to act like the fools that they are in public.
yes. i have to agree with your assessment.
"When scientists dont know something .........they admit it. Pretending to know things one doesnt know is a profound liability in science."
......well not in the case of Climate Change, where faking evidence is a very lucrative affair, and as a bonus, you can count on the majority of scientists to cover your butt when you lie.
1. Atheists believe that life is meaningless.
Deny the eternal, and you bump into Solomon’s conclusions in Ecclesiastes.
Well the angry ones are not agnostics, they are atheists, and they are so proud of have proved a negative....at least to themselves.
Very interesting article, SeekAndFind. Thanks for posting it. I’m a Christian who has had conversations with athiests and agnostics. Much of what this article is saying rings true, in my opinion.
I learned a valuable lesson from a preacher’s wife many years ago. She basically said, “I don’t argue religion, because religion is based on faith” and “I don’t argue against other religions (our conversation was about Mormons) because we are all taught our beliefs and hold on to them regardless of whether we are right or wrong”.
I trust in God and if I was wrong in not becoming a Mormon, or Jew, or Catholic, or ‘name your religion’, then I pray He will forgive me.
"There is, in fact, not a Christian on this Earth who can be certain that Jesus even wore a beard, much less that he was born of a virgin or rose from the dead. These are just not the sort of claims that spiritual experience can authenticate."
These are precisely the kinds of things that spiritual experience can authenticate, if that is the proper term. I would say 'reveal'. Jesus said "The Kingdom of God is within you." On what basis does a materialist pronounce judgment on the 'authenticity' of inner visions? (which are actually quite common occurances). Even some religious people have trouble with visions, prophetic dreams, and other Divine revelations.
My brother left the church, partly because he was visited by Jesus one night in his bedroom. When he asked the junior minister about it, he was told to get out of his office and not talk about such things. Sadly, he remains an atheist to this day.
Not everyone requires an answer for the unknown.
This is well said. I think religion can be, and mostly is, a beautiful thing. But call me a “Doubting Thomas” or whatever. I have absolutely lost all trust in mankind to secure and deliver religious truth. And if there is a God, he/she should have known better than to put his “truth” in the hands of man. Just look what they’ve done in his name. :(
The Psalmist always said it best for me:
“The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God.”
(Why no respect, you ask? What respect do they show theists?)
Freedom, Wealth, and Peace,
Francis W. Porretto
Eternity Road
“There’s no possibility of proving or disproving either the theist”
Just because one human can’t prove it to another doesn’t mean that God doesn’t prove it to whomever He decides.
“My brother left the church, partly because he was visited by Jesus one night in his bedroom. When he asked the junior minister about it, he was told to get out of his office and not talk about such things. Sadly, he remains an atheist to this day.”
I don’t uinderstand why those two events would push him into atheism.
We decide what is good in our good books by recourse to moral intuitions that are (at some level) hard-wired in us and that have been refined by thousands of years of thinking about the causes and possibilities of human happiness.
Anyone thinking of voting for an atheist in high office will do well to reflect on these words, coming from an Atheist in his own defense.
The good that we do is, according to him, done SOLELY because of concern for suffering; that concern is a product of intuition strengthened by centuries of thought.
That would explain Stalin and Hitler. It is therefore entirely possible that whatever theory we invent in our own mind about the ways to help the suffering, is good enough to act upon. As easy as the atheist had discarded religion he will discard the "thousands of years of thinking about the causes and possibilities of human happiness" and substitute his own cogitations.
Don't trust them, folks.
Actually, both fascism and communism are only made possible by atheistic philosophic assumptions.
Locke also was right, not only can the promises of an atheist not be trusted--but neither can ethics in general. If one really believes he is unaccountable to anyone--he is more likely live amorally--without fear of penalty for doing wrong to others--having one's only "ethic" as what he can get away with... As a matter of fact, atheism has no basis of understanding right or wrong in the first place. One cannot know ought from is, or morals from behavior....ultimately, without a law giver, there is no law.
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