It's time you realised where we're coming from

Wilso, with all due respect, you do not speak for this atheist. I work with people of faith, socialize with people of faith, and have no problems with any of them.

I think I see the point you are trying to make, but broad sweeping generalizations are no better than the weak arguments that you are railing against.

LionTamerX wrote:

Wilso, with all due respect, you do not speak for this atheist. I work with people of faith, socialize with people of faith, and have no problems with any of them.

I think I see the point you are trying to make, but broad sweeping generalizations are no better than the weak arguments that you are railing against.

It fits most of the nuts that post on this board.

Sometimes you feel like a nut, sometimes you don't

Why is it that, well since Wilso stated it, I will address this to him. And just what makes you think that you are so superior to anyone that believes in God? What gives you the right to judge anyone for what they believe or don't believe?

What gives you the right to decide we need counseling or medication just because we have faith?

I have never called you or any non-believer on these threads a name because of your beliefs or lack of them. What makes you think you are better than anyone else for anything?

Unfortunately, the only thing I have actually learned from most atheists on these threads is exactly how not to treat people. You want to be an atheist? Fine. If it gives you license to treat others any way you deem justifiable, you can keep it. As for me and mine, we will serve the Lord.

Momma Angel wrote:

Why is it that, well since Wilso stated it, I will address this to him. And just what makes you think that you are so superior to anyone that believes in God? What gives you the right to judge anyone for what they believe or don't believe?

What gives you the right to decide we need counseling or medication just because we have faith?

I have never called you or any non-believer on these threads a name because of your beliefs or lack of them. What makes you think you are better than anyone else for anything?

Unfortunately, the only thing I have actually learned from most atheists on these threads is exactly how not to treat people. You want to be an atheist? Fine. If it gives you license to treat others any way you deem justifiable, you can keep it. As for me and mine, we will serve the Lord.

Yet you can't show a shred of evidence to support your contention that he exists. Not rational.

Atheists that is. We see religion as making as much sense as Alice in Wonderland. It's 2006, and we still see people placing faith in their imaginary friend in the sky. I find it absolutely incomprehensible that a rational human being could possibly believe in an omnipotent, all knowing, all seeing being. My opinion sways between seeing religionists as needing education and counselling, to needing heavy medication and to be locked in a padded room where they can't do any damage.

I agree, MommaAngel that you have been treating us atheists much better than we have been treating you. But has it occured to you that we are not just aggressing against you personally? (actually you are a very nice, actually sweet, person); we are, I think, aggressing against the institution that your ideas and values represent. Christianity holds us to be "sinners" (a notion christians made up, not a reality like that of an "apple"), and it would form a society in which our institutions, our forms of entertainment, education, marriage, etc. etc. would conform to its ideas and ideals. That is much more offensive than anything Wilson can say.
Well maybe not in the case of Wilson.

I couldn't make some changes, so I repeat with changes my previous post.