You really think we had racial harmony in America prior to Mr. Obama?
Get with you next time. Time to log out & go home.
I'm sorry, I meant theist.
You have to be religious to be narrow minded. Nice language for someone claiming to be a deist. How pitiful.
Christian, Jew, Muslim it doesn't matter. You all believe in an invisible magic being who is suppose to be perfect but makes mistakes all the time. Is supposed to be merciful but has no probllem k*****g. All of it driven by dogma which is rigid & intellectual repressive. So, as long as you're advocating godit doesn't matter what you call him/it.
Dressed up & nowhere to go you say? How does a living christian KNOW not believe but KNOW that a dead one ascended to heaven? You see, I, the non-believer doesn't have to prove anything because I am not making the outrageous claim. The burden of proof is on you. I readily admit I don't know anything about the origin of the universe. You and your holy book makes that claim. Again, the onus of proof is on you. Unfortunately for you, the longer humanity lives and learns, the more validity your stories lose & you guys have to resort to excuses to explain away things that are painfully obvious. I don't know what happens to a person or any other living being for that matter after it dies & neither does anyone else. So if someone tells you they know, they're telling you for their benefit & not yours. Try not to give all of your money to an antiquated & childish idea.
You quoted the bible. In your context they went hand in hand. Everyone knows there's been thousands of gods and just like all of the ones before this god to shall be relegated to mythological status as humans learn more about our planet. God & religion are nothing but fear dressed up as virtue. It has absolutely nothing with what's true. I dare say most deists haven't even ventured to explore whether what they believe is true or not they just accept it. You on the other hand are pissed simply because someone has a different viewpoint from you and has to resort to name calling. I for one am a gentleman but I dare say if we were having this conversation in public I highly doubt you would talk to me with such disrespect. If you claim to be a christian try acting like jesus said you should.
I meant IF you don't like Bill Maher.
First of all, you don't have to insult me or anyone else just for expressing their opinion. That just shows how fragile your beliefs are and thus your need to become immediately defensive. I you don't like Bill Maher that means one of two things: 1) You've never actually listened to him or
2) You've listened to him & what he says makes a mockery out of religion & exposes it for the juvenile superstition it is. If you disagree, tell us something to refute it.
As a staunch atheist I'm not exactly sure what to say. So, I guess I will start with a quote from Bill Maher inwhich he said "Atheism is a religion like abstienence is a sex position." I agree there is no need for atheists to assemble at a church or any other man made building to disbelieve in god. All one would have to do is have a normal conversation about the earth for its beginnings until the present day. That alone should be enough to convince one or at least make them doubt that mankind has yet to come up with an irrefuetable answer to our existence. The god of the holy books either doesn't exist or it is the most inept deity in history. It's a vain, egotistical, angry, jealous, judgmental, manical k**ler. Why anyone would want to worship a being with less morality than themselves is beyond me. I would venture to say that most true christians would never k**l anyone just for not believing or stone an adulterer to death or even k**l someone for working on the sabbath. However, as for who to thank, you thank people because people are what makes things happen in the world both good & bad. Here's another quote from someone whose name I can't think of right now but he said: "With or without religion you would have good people doing good things. With or without religion you would have bad people doing bad things but for good people to do bad things that takes religion.
I think you are inadvertently replying to me.
Sorry about that. Which one is for specific replies?
I totally agree with you. Question is which approach do we take? Do we basically deny assistance because some who are undeserving may reap benefits or do we provide assistance and try to prevent the undeserving from reaping benefits? I believe when you air on the side of caution you don't deprive the needy.