Student Sues History Teacher Over Anti-Christian Comments

TheTrueBZ »

Wed Dec 19, 2007 9:12 pm Agree: 1   Disagree: 1

Also a note on an earlier comment. Carbon dating isn't what scientists use to establish the age of the Earth. They use other radiometric dating techniques to establish the age of the Earth at a few billion years(not millions). Get your facts straight, please.

Oh, and annieforjesus, have you actually read Harry Potter?

Student Sues History Teacher Over Anti-Christian Comments

TheTrueBZ »

Wed Dec 19, 2007 8:59 pm Agree: 1   Disagree: 1

"Just think of it, all because a young man with Faith in his beliefs decided to challenge the establishment. Leaving society alone or ignoring their blatant attempts to destroy or remove everything and anything Christian will only embolden them."

"The world blames either Christians or Jews for everything that is wrong on the planet."

That is why he thinks you have a persecution complex. If you live in a hardcore fundamental Islamic country, then you have a right to say these things. If you live in America where Christians are easily the majority and atheists are by far the most distrusted group, where God is in our motto, our pledge, and on our money, then you need to get some perspective and stop whining.

Borders Tags Atheist Book with 'O Come All Ye Faithless' Cards

TheTrueBZ »

Tue Dec 18, 2007 11:15 pm Agree: 4   Disagree: 0

I'm not quite getting this. Could someone explain to me where the insult is? I'm not saying it isn't there, I'm saying I don't see it.

Student Sues History Teacher Over Anti-Christian Comments

TheTrueBZ »

Tue Dec 18, 2007 10:51 pm Agree: 0   Disagree: 0

I would like to point out that most atheists actually do not agree with pushing one's own agenda inside a classroom like this. As an atheist I disapprove of what this teacher has done.

House Votes to Honor Real Reason Behind Christmas

TheTrueBZ »

Tue Dec 18, 2007 8:59 pm Agree: 1   Disagree: 0

"Actually, it makes perfect sense. Athiests believe there is no God, and consequently, no sin as well. If this is the case, and it is, this verse would then be applicable:

"If we say that we have no sin, we are deceiving ourselves and the truth is not in us." 1st John 1:8

Therefore, if the truth is not in them, and we see it is not, I ask you again why I should trust what they say?"

So, atheism is wrong based off of what Christianity says? That's a very circular argument.

And yes, atheists can believe in sin. I don't need to believe in God to believe in a system of morality.

Also, yes, most of the founding fathers had Christian beliefs. That doesn't mean they wanted religion and politics to be combined. The Declaration of Independence may contain talk of Christianity, and their private life may have contained practice of Christianity, but when it came down to writing the highest law of the land for our government(the constitution) they never once inserted their own beliefs into it. All the evidence of their faith you have presented actually helps my case, because the lack of God in the constitution definitely doesn't mean they didn't believe in God. It meant they believed in seperation of church and state.

House Votes to Honor Real Reason Behind Christmas

TheTrueBZ »

Sat Dec 15, 2007 11:01 pm Agree: 1   Disagree: 1

Also, if one examines the constitution, one will see that our nation was not founded on Christianity. There is no mention of Christianity, Jesus, or God within our constitution. The only times the word religion or religious appears is to ban religious tests for holding office and to prevent Congress from supporting a religion or putting restraints on one. There is no higher law of the land than the constitution, and it is clearly a secular document. The constitution is not a large document, so this is easy to check for yourself.

I can understand that Christianity is important to all of you, and you want it to influence every part of your lives, so I can see why you would want it in your government too. However, if you put it in your government, Christianity also becomes part of the lives of people who don't follow it, and that is disrespectful to them.

House Votes to Honor Real Reason Behind Christmas

TheTrueBZ »

Sat Dec 15, 2007 10:37 pm Agree: 1   Disagree: 0

@ JC. What, because the other side is trying to prove a point, it is evidence they're slanted in that direction and have a bias, and therefore can't be trusted? If everyone took that attitude(And too many people do) then nobody would ever listen to someone with an opposing point of view. There would be no discussion, just endless quarelling. Yeah, you should take what the opposition says with a grain of salt, but you should do the same with your side. A suspician of bias means you double check their facts, not that you ignore them. And the belief that Satan is a deceiver seems like quite a copout when you use it as a blank check to ignore someone else's point of view.

Gunman Posted Anti-Christian Rant Between Shootings

TheTrueBZ »

Sat Dec 15, 2007 4:29 pm Agree: 1   Disagree: 0

Also, ProfessorX, you should try to understand the atheist viewpoint better even if you don't agree with it. So many of those things you said don't describe a single atheist I know, and I know several. First of all, we don't have faith in chance and luck. The whole chance and luck thing is a caricature of evolution, and not what anyone actually believes. Also, even if we are wrong, most atheists are making our best attempt at knowing the truth based on the evidence, even if we have committed a logical fallacy. Therefore, it is not faith. Nor are we superstitious, even if we are foolish and incorrect, we are by definition not superstitious. Atheists in general are not fond of faith or superstition, and you are going to offend a lot of people by saying these things. Stick to simply saying our beliefs are wrong, please. We don't agree with it, obviously, but at least it isn't ignorant.

Nor does an atheist worship himself, or the human race in general as the highest authority. We may believe there are no authorities higher than humanity, but we have more of an "we're fallible but we have to do the best we can because that's life" attitude than a claim to some sort of divinity.

Btw, can I have a link to whatever study shows evolution is within the science-fiction section of most libraries? Even discredited scientific theories don't go in the science fiction section, so that claim just doesn't really ring true. Especially since the serious books on UFOs, astrology, palm reading, etc. don't end up in the science fiction section.

Gunman Posted Anti-Christian Rant Between Shootings

TheTrueBZ »

Sat Dec 15, 2007 4:16 pm Agree: 1   Disagree: 0

Wouldn't it be best to agree that killing over religious differences is always wrong, and then work against that rather than against a particular set of beliefs? I think stacking up communist atrocities versus the inquisitiona and the crusades, then arguing over whether the religious beliefs or lack therof were a by-product, a coincidence, or a driving factor is missing the point. And that's before you argue over whose side gets Hitler.

Poll: More Americans Believe in Devil than Darwin

TheTrueBZ »

Wed Dec 12, 2007 6:26 pm Agree: 1   Disagree: 0

Quoting bible verses at people who don't believe in the bible is rather ineffective.