Posted on 12/27/2017 8:22:26 AM PST by truthfinder9
Recently a man burst into a church in Sutherland Springs, Texas, and shot and killed 26 parishioners (including an unborn child). The killer’s former high school classmates described him as a militant atheist.
“He was always talking about how people who believe in God we’re stupid and trying to preach his atheism,” wrote former classmate Nina Rose Nava in a Facebook post, according to the Daily Mail. “I legit just deleted him off my fb cause I couldn’t stand his post.”
Which raises this question: To what extent was the killer’s rampage inspired by his atheist beliefs? Obviously, I am not making the case that atheists as a group condone his act, or would ever consider doing anything like it. All decent, normal people, atheist and theist alike, are horrified by this atrocity. Yet the question posed is still reasonable. If the tables had been turned — if, God forbid many times over, the victims had been atheists at a skeptics’ convention and the killer had been an evangelical Christian — the public square would be filled with speculation about the role that ideology played in his crimes. And properly so. We can’t get inside the Texas killer’s head (fortunately), but ideas do have consequences.
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I realize that it can be difficult to see the truth when you have been immersed. I have seen it alot and many times in my lifetime. I have the advantage of being able to look from the outside in. In my experienced opinion, your situation is no different.
Again, this is why atheists exist. Because flawed humans improvise and embellish on something simple. They do this for personal gain and other motivations. IMO, this is the worst and most evil aspect of religions because they turn people away from the truth and give nonbelievers reason to not believe.
Christ's word and gift are pure, the message is pure, it is the messengers who are corrupted.
May the best of God’s blessings be with you and yours in the New Year.
Thank you. :)
dear boogieman,
re: “Militant atheism is the ideology of people too foolish to realize one can’t prove a negative.”
Atheism is the laziest of any of the some-2000 belief systems that have gone around the world.
Militant atheism, is the perfect religion of the snowflake generation, don’t you agree?
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