Posted on 05/31/2015 7:39:21 PM PDT by marshmallow
Seminary president Danny Akin joins celebrity atheists Bill Maher and Penn & Teller in speaking out for people who don’t believe in God.
A Southern Baptist seminary president has added his blessing to a campaign advocating for atheists.
Danny Akin, president of Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary in Wake Forest, N.C., affirmed Openly Secular, a campaign fighting discrimination against people based upon their non-belief, in a two-minute video message posted online.
“You are probably wondering immediately: why would I be doing a video at the site of Openly Secular?” Akin said in the video. “The reason is that though we do disagree about some very important issues, we also agree about some important things as well.”
“For example, we do believe, together, that no one should be coerced when it comes to their particular religious beliefs,” Akin continued. “Whether they are religious or not religious, they should have the freedom to express what they believe and they should be able to do so without hatred, without discrimination. They should not be put down because they happen to disagree with another person in terms of what they believe.
“We also believe that all people are valuable and have dignity and worth, and therefore all people should be respected and should be allowed to express their beliefs openly according to the dictates of their conscience.
“Of course we also believe we can come together to try to help in areas like poverty, in the area of making sure our planet and environment is well cared for, and there are a number of other things that we can come together and work together with mutual love, mutual respect and understanding for one another.”
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Strange. The worst part is how it takes freedom of conscience to the point that it restricts other people’s response. Yes you have the freedom to believe and express those beliefs. No you do not have the right to demand a favorable response from others.
In other words they are saying you are entitled to your beliefs so long as they are favorable or silent to other people’s beliefs. That is a long way from the First Amendment of our Constitution. The entire point of freedom of religion, speech and press was that right ideas would win and wrong ideas would lose. Wrong can be tolerated when right is free to debate against it. Criticism is essential to the entire concept of why freedom is important and better than tyranny. To essentially demand an end to criticism is to impose a new tyranny.
I truly believe we will all be forced to ‘home churches’ like in China.
Thomas Jefferson: “Error of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it.”
I don’t believe in atheists.
Because I believe what it says in Romans chapter one.
Baptist ping
Well, that's the rub, isn't it? Atheists ultimately leave no room for reason. If they did, their claims to atheism would evaporate like early morning fog in the heat of day.
Denying the historical facts of the death, burial and resurrection of Jesus Christ is the the most unreasonable thing one can do.
And once you've denied that ultimate reality, which is more crucial than any other, any level of unreality becomes possible.
Mr. Akin,
So if I know of a cult like Heaven’s Gate, I should just let them continue to believe they’re going to meet a UFO hiding behind the Hale-Bopp comet? I think not. I’ll let muslims know where I stand too.
What is wrong with the TRUTH, Mr. Akin?
Excellent points!
A-MEN!
Lower power ping.
> Pathetic. This is straight out of Screwtape Letters.
Isn’t it though? And isn’t it funny that the leftists today all use the same double negative doublespeak that the demons used in that book?...lol
As the old saying goes, nothing new under the Sun. Even C.S. Lewis had an inspiration for his novel.
If this apostate isn’t expelled immediately, the Southern Baptists have deeper problems.
A Southern Baptist seminary president has added his blessing to a campaign advocating for atheists.
Does the Pastor also participate in gay campaigns? not that I equate atheism with gay but it all involves dis belief in God.
I would rather just make them think I did not know they existed, ignore them.
http://www.uhuh.com/nwo/communism/comgoals.htm
27. Infiltrate the churches and replace revealed religion with “social” religion. Discredit the Bible and emphasize the need for intellectual maturity which does not need a “religious crutch.”
Atheists are a cancer on our body politic.
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