An Improper Attack on Religion

quill »

Fri Dec 12, 2008 11:29 am Agree: 1   Disagree: 1

...And like all Christians, the author of this piece seems to feel quite naturally that anything which attacks or insults his religion deserves to be banned.

And you wonder why we say religion enslaves the mind.

The Atheist Leap of Faith

quill »

Sun Jan 06, 2008 1:19 pm Agree: 0   Disagree: 1

Christianity is expected to fall below 70% of the US population in 2008. It's declining faster than any other religion in America as a percentage of the civil population. And it's all about science. In the modern world, any religion that pits is dogma against science is a religion that doesn't have long to live. You Christians are just cutting your own throats by opposing evolution. In the courts of public opinion, you prove yourselves to be liars, and by proxy, you prove Christianity to be a lie, every time you do it.

The Atheist Leap of Faith

quill »

Sun Jan 06, 2008 1:16 pm Agree: 0   Disagree: 1

There is such a thing as observed reality. When Darwin said that anyone who actually rejects evolution and believes in creationism has to be ignorant of both, he was saying nothing that should be offensive. It's a simple fact. One of those things really is true and one of them really is false. That's why you can walk into a natural history museum anywhere in the world and see a human ancesty exhibit. It's not a conspiracy.

Evolution, Intelligent Design Debate Hits Florida Schools

quill »

Fri Dec 14, 2007 2:34 pm Agree: 1   Disagree: 1

Really, when are these ID people going to get the message? In one state after another they try this same material, and it always gets shot down. Repeat after me: Creationists Always Lose In Court. That's because their BS can be found to be unsound with only a minimum of scrutiny.

Evolution, Intelligent Design Debate Hits Florida Schools

quill »

Fri Dec 14, 2007 2:28 pm Agree: 1   Disagree: 1

Every scientific theory, including Darwinian evolution, has had to fight its way up through the peer-review process and win a consensus in the scientific community BEFORE it has been accepted into textbook and classroom. What these creationist proponents are doing is trying to get the government to cheat for them, to insert their material into classrooms before the scientific community agrees with them. That's a violation of the whole scientific process and it's not fair. The rules are the same for everyone, and if they can't play by them, they should go home.

If creationists ever manage to win a consensus in the scientific community, then their BS can be taught in schools. But doing so now would be to cheat our children out of the education they deserve.

Evolution, Intelligent Design Debate Hits Florida Schools

quill »

Fri Dec 14, 2007 2:23 pm Agree: 1   Disagree: 1

To suggest that schools should teach something that the scientific community overwhelmingly and repeatedly rejects is madness. Every single natural history museum, every single peer-reviewed biology journal and every single university biology department throughout the entire world accepts evolutionary science and rejects creationism. To tell students that these two "perspectives" are equal would be to lie to them.

Georgia Gets Rain Day after Gov. Leads Prayers to God

quill »

Thu Nov 15, 2007 7:23 pm Agree: 0   Disagree: 0

Gee, I wonder if they're going to pray for and end to the starvation in Sudan next.

Probably not. :/

Atheists 'Evangelizing' in America; How Christians Can Respond

quill »

Sun Oct 14, 2007 3:04 pm Agree: 12   Disagree: 11

i'm also going to mention how nonsensical it is for people in these comments to point out "evil atheists" like Stalin who have done bad things throughout history. How many of you people who tote out Stalin during these discussions know that Josef Stalin was trained as a PRIEST in an Eastern Orthodox seminary? And even if it were an atheist, so what? Christians were burning people at stakes for almost two thousand years nonstop before Stalin came along. Even just 300 years ago, any public atheist would have been tortured and publicly executed. And you Christians want to portray atheists as historically intolerant? Give me a break.

Grow up already. Deciding whether there is a god or not is not a matter of piling up body counts and seeing whether believers have more atrocities on their side of the fence than nonbelievers. There really is no such thing as a god, and yes we can know that, to exactly the same degree that we can know there is no Santa Claus, no fairies, no unicorns (which the Bible mentions six times) and no leprechauns, because the evidence for the existence of all of those things is exactly the same.

Atheists 'Evangelizing' in America; How Christians Can Respond

quill »

Sun Oct 14, 2007 2:58 pm Agree: 7   Disagree: 6

This article is every bit as biased as one could have expected from such a publication. Some corrections:

According to a 2007 Harris study which anyone can find online, 15% of Americans now say there is probably no God, and are atheists, a far cry from the 2-9% that the author of this little smear piece would have you believe. Whether those 15% identify themselves as "secular humanists," "atheists", "brights", "freethinkers", or some other obscure term is irrelevant. Atheists are clearly what they are.

And here's another little tidbit that the author omitted: according to the last American Religious Identification Survey, atheism and agnosticism were both growing at a rate faster than ANY religion, while Christianity was at the same time declining faster than any religion. Even with a church on every streetcorner and trillions spent every year proselytizing, Christianity can not manage to even keep its own numbers from slipping away to atheism, which has no churches, no trillions, and very little proselytizing to speak of. How do you account for this, propagandists? Maybe the other side just has a more convincing argument.