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Quote by: Winter wind  Ok, since Athena double posted, I'm going to assume I can to.
I've looked over the entire thread now and am glad I got here when I did.
To Christians
Every time Christians say Atheists are naturally immoral, I die a little on the inside. This was stated by loser somewhere. Atheist does not equate to lack of moral system.
Also, I don't care enough about the title to nit pick on it.
To Atheists (Lullaby Chainer in particular).
You do seem to be lumping all Christians into the category "Christian Right". I don't think I fall under that category. In fact, I spend my free time trying to convince people on the Christian Right (in an internet forum) that Jesus was not a family man.
Also there seems to be a false dichotomy here. Either God is evil because the Bible says so or the Bible is wrong therefore God doesn't exist. A big thing in Christianity is how no one is perfect. This applies to authors of the books of the Bible. You really have to take historical context into account if you are going to interpret the Bible.
Tsk. So pessimistic. You haven't mentioned Heaven (maybe you have and I missed it, I'm not perfect). You are kinda focused on all the bad things about Christianity that you ignore the upsides to it. Love, Forgiveness, An extended hand to the poor and needy. These are reasons to believe in Christianity. But if you insist on only seeing the reasons why not to believe, then of course you can't believe.
I can't give specific example from the thread to support some of my claims, I just ask for your mercy at one in the morning. But i don't think I put words in anyone's mouth. Even so, go easy on my post. It's Junior year and my head's about to explode. My logic may be flawed here or there. |
You get plenty of mercy from me because I also see much to commend in Christianity while I fit few of the anti-religionists' defintiions of the "Christian Right"--few Christians do actually. I also appreciate anybody who puts more thought into it than strict dogma sanctioned by any particular Christian group. I actually think all religions have a piece of the truth and there are religions other than Christianity that also have much to commend them. However, only opinions expressed by the anti-religionists seem to be permissable.
I gave it a shot, but I am opting out of the blow-by-blow analysis of points put forth by the thread author So far most or all sources provided to support the pertinent points are non responsive and/or erroneous and/or too much of a stretch to relate to the topic. The threat author offers statements that could be debated, but they are laced with so much inflammatory personal opinion and so many logical fallacies as to make any kind of real debate unlikely.
Do not despise your youth. You are more wise than you may realize.