Calling all atheists..?

Deep down they are looking for something

Very good question, I have asked this question similarly. Although, I don't understand even after asking it. It seems that in order for some to be respectful, loving and kind, I believe one must believe first in a perfect higher power. Who does one model themselves after if there is no other God but the idols around them? The biggest Idol people have is themselves. Everybody is looking out for number one. We, ourselves are not perfect, not even close. Even Christians are guilty of this. Yet Christians know this is wrong and humble themselves. So if someone, for example an atheist wanted to provoke a Christian, it is more or less their own insecurities. It makes them feel better, where it should make them feel worse. I know people of all religions and cultures that are guilty of this. People in this forum are mostly blowing off steam. It is easy to be rude and obnoxious behind the veil of anonymity. Anyway, try not to let it bother you, it's what they want. God bless

Quite honestly I do not ask questions on here to upset anybody. I only try to get people to think. I also take the time to think about religious questions. It's a learning experience. It may make people mad when somebody questions something that another feels very strongly about, but that does not make it wrong.

It is because we love you and want to save you from a pernicious and harmful delusion. It is only our deeply felt compassion that makes us want to cure the Christians of their insanity. It is, as you yourself mention, much like trying to cure a cancer. Except that it is not the lives of a few paltry individuals, but the very fate of the world that hangs in the balance.

To have people who believe that they will be magically saved, and who are praying for Armageddon, having access to the largest arsenal in all history, makes trying to find a cure imperative.

If you have been here for very long at all you know that many Christians are equally guilty of this. I don't support Atheists or any other religion being rude and bigoted. I come here to exchange ideas. I fear some religious people are too willing to impose their world view onto other's like me who don't share them. It gets nasty here because so many people can't stand to hear from people who don't see the world as they do.

Out there in the world are thousands of pedophile priests, rapist ministers, christian conmen and blackmailing baptists (telling tsunami victims "convert and well give you food and water!"). Meanwhile, you're getting uppity and pretending it's a problem that atheists want to keep religion out of schools and government.

Your goal is to make it easier for the criminals. Ours is to make it difficult. Can you just not see it, or are a participant in such loathesome christian behaviour?

Clean up your own house first. Unlike you, that's what atheists are trying to do.

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More Murder Rape and Pillage (Deuteronomy 20:10-14)

As you approach a town to attack it, first offer its people terms for peace. If they accept your terms and open the gates to you, then all the people inside will serve you in forced labor. But if they refuse to make peace and prepare to fight, you must attack the town. When the LORD your God hands it over to you, kill every man in the town. But you may keep for yourselves all the women, children, livestock, and other plunder. You may enjoy the spoils of your enemies that the LORD your God has given you.

This is part of the reason

It's all about POWER. The power to hurt other people with words, instead of fists. They're really good at it, too. They

must've practiced their skills an awful lot to have become so profecient at inflicting intentional pain on innocent, gullible believers.

I agree with you. I'm too guilty of the above mentioned things, but i do need to get my kicks from somewhere. Hey, if one of the Xtians is open to discussion, I don't mind doing that.

Call me when you find that cure for cancer.