Atheists... Your life is pointless

so do you think my life has meaning?

Mesquite,

That's a pretty harsh statement, isn't it? Again, judging all Christians by some?

edgarblythe wrote:

An atheist's life has as much point as anybody else. Only difference, in general, it interferes with others' lives, on average, less than other lives do.

Tell that to the folks who lived under the boot of the atheist utopia in the former Soviet Union and it's "voluntarily associated" Communist client states of Eastern Europe, or who now live in Communist China, another atheist totalitarian state.

Thanks for the laugh, EB. You should try Comedy Central.

Edgar ,
Do you suppose that real would be much more at home living under the thumb of a fundamentalist theocratic regime such as the Taliban (only a Christian version) with their forced adherence to morals via the religious police?

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Edgar ,
Do you suppose that real would be much more at home living under the thumb of a fundamentalist theocratic regime such as the Taliban (only a Christian version) with their forced adherence to morals via the religious police?

Mesquite, you seem to be correlating the Taliban with Christianity here. If you would pose this to Real Life, you might as well pose it to me also. My beliefs are well in line with Real Life's and Intrepids, and Foxfyre's, etc.

If I am misunderstanding what you stated, please, can you explain it differently?

MA,
Real had associated a brutal authoritarian government with atheism. I made a corresponding relationship to a brutal authoritarian government which was a FUNDAMENTALIST THEOCRACY. (keywords capitalized for emphasis)

If you think that a Christian fundamentalist theocracy would be any better than the Taliban, then you should study some world history.

But you must see, Mamma, that all professed Christians do not see Christianity in the same light.

The concept of the American Taliban, where democracy is replace by a singular view of fundamentalist Christianity, where the three branches of our government are controlled by one view, even though that view does not adequately or accurately reflect Christianity in the full sense, to say nothing of representing other outlooks, is eerily similar to the ultra-conservative leanings of a small group of fanatical muslims who were able to take power in Afghanistan.

We should not be governed by the religious leanings of any one group.

The group of folks that set up the US government made certain that religion was not a part of it. You deal with that.

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The group of folks that set up the US government made certain that religion was not a part of it. You deal with that.

Does this mean you think Christians should not hold public office? How can you expect a Christian to not vote their conscience just as anyone should/would?

BTW Mesquite, where in Az?

MA,
do you deliberately read past my use of THEOCRACY to meet some need to feel persecuted?

Of course Christians should hold public office. I don't know of any non-Christian presidents. There have been a few Jewish Senators and probably a sprinkling of atheists and agnostics that we've never heard much about, but we're already governed by Christians. It's the ultra right wing, Pat Robertson type Christians that scare me. Separation of church and state doesn't mean that our leaders need to be nonreligious, but it DOES mean that their religion should not determine their actions when it comes to decisions as it affects the government.

MA,
do you deliberately read past my use of THEOCRACY to meet some need to feel persecuted?