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I never said I get direct revelations from God. God either opens the heart of a person to the evangel or He does not. His opening or keeping closed the hearts of individuals to the evangel is not due to a love or hatred of any person but merely has to do with His counsel and will.
Freak80 is loosing it. He's just lashing out blindly now at anything that moves.
Originally Posted by wolf39us I can answer this question personally.
What drives us is the particularly powerful presence of Christians in (in my case) America. Christians have a stronghold in US politics and have far too much influence on everyone's daily activities and far too much influence in law.
If Christians were just a blip on the radar, then I wouldn't care about speaking out.
We care about religion because of religious violence and acts in the name of God.
We care about religion because theists attempt to push non-science into science classes.
We care about religion because of bigotry and hatred towards minority groups and the LGBT community.
Can you imagine an Atheist president? Me neither as long as we're the most distrusted group!
I care about atheists because it was the atheist led Communists that murdered about 50 million of their own people. One can argue till they are blue in the face that it wasn't really atheist but in fact, it was. Why not? We are all an accident of evolution. We are nothing more than an animal. If we die it's no big loss.
I care about atheists because it was the atheist led Communists that murdered about 50 million of their own people. One can argue till they are blue in the face that it wasn't really atheist but in fact, it was. Why not? We are all an accident of evolution. We are nothing more than an animal. If we die it's no big loss.
Are you referring to Stalin by chance? He was most certainly an Atheist. He also had a mustache... oh hey wait a minute! So did Hitler!
Freak80 is loosing it. He's just lashing out blindly now at anything that moves.
That's good actually. One doesn't, under NORMAL circumstances lash out at a figment of the imagination. They know God exists. This is just their way of getting back at Him for their missperceived ideas that He did something to tick them off. Like the Mills Brothers sang: "You always hurt the one you love, the one, you wouldn't hurt before."
I know you are not being serious. Threads about homosexuality(this one is the biggy), what is sin what isn't, correcting sin in others.
From what i have read on here since being a member on this forum, is American bible believing(?) christianity is deep seeded in sin consciousness and the way homosexuals are singled out not only to be offenders but the biggest ones is totally disgusting.
Sadly, I have to agree with you about singling out homosexuals is totally disgusting. But you see, I was in church 60 years ago when it was the Jews which were the reason America was going to hell in a hand basket. Then it was Negros; then it was women; then it was women, again. I don't know who they hated on next because I was no longer sitting in the church pew. Organized religion (OR) has always needed somebody to hate and to blame. I don't know why, but hate has always been their mantra. You must realize that while OR calls itself Christian, OR really has little to do with Christianity. They are 2 separate things. OR is a totally man-made thing and it hijacked God and the Bible for its own purposes. OR can't blame itself and its own sins for sending the world to hell, so they must have a scapegoat. I don't know why. They just always have. That is the nature of the beast. That is why I keep harping on the fact that OR, Christianity, God, and the Bible are not the same things.
What drives us is the particularly powerful presence of Christians in (in my case) America. Christians have a stronghold in US politics and have far too much influence on everyone's daily activities and far too much influence in law.
If Christians were just a blip on the radar, then I wouldn't care about speaking out.
We care about religion because of religious violence and acts in the name of God.
We care about religion because theists attempt to push non-science into science classes.
We care about religion because of bigotry and hatred towards minority groups and the LGBT community.
Can you imagine an Atheist president? Me neither as long as we're the most distrusted group!
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Originally Posted by the_human_being
No. What you care about is imposing your beliefs and hatreds upon others. Let's at least be honest little atheists.
Many atheists have pointed out to you that their problem with your religion is that it has a direct impact on their lives. That is Christians imposing their beliefs and hatreds upon others.
You continue to ignore the very real reasons you are given. Your condescension makes you sound like a bully, and I don't think Jesus was like that.
Why Are theists So Pre-Occupied With what atheists think?
Because they are in the Christian Forum.
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