Thanks for the thread. God bless.

Yes, that’s why I objected to *ALL* of that. Christians need to face the bloodthirsty brutality and dishonesty of the bible, their own brutal history and twisting the words of others to justify their unintelligible and intolerant beliefs. Thanks for the support!

“If sanctimonious can be used to describe an athiest, it is the word that comes to mind when I hear an athiest condemn
Christianity,”

Hardly. Atheists don’t destroy other cultures, enslave people and murder people because they won’t accept our perspective. That’s something Christianity has a long and bloody history in.

” act as though athiests have come through history as harmless free thinkers who are intellectually and ethically superior to the rest of humankind.”

You mean when we’re not persecuted by Christians, Muslims and other theists? When we’re not viewed as immoral or unethical just because we reject your imaginary invisible man in the sky and your book of blood and lies? Let me know when that happens, will you?

” That athiests have never caused any pain and suffering to the human condition.”

I see. So now you’re into one-upmanship, huh? Christianity’s brutal reign of terror is someone okay so long as you compare it to other brutal reigns of terror, is that it?

” On the other hand, I remember Communists declaring that religion is the opiate of the masses, and there was no God except the state. Now take a look at all of the Communist revolutions throughout history and tell me just how blameless atheiest are for any human suffering.”

Communism is not Atheism. Try again. But first, tell me about Christianity’s blame for human suffering, since it has existed for much longer. But Communism is not Atheism. In fact, it is clearly much closer to Christianity in structure and action.

“How can you claim insult for “all” atheists . I guess the same way you can place all the blame on “Christians” for the worlds sufferings.”

I doubt any Atheist would want to be compared to an imaginary being. How Invisible-Pink-Unicorn-ish are *you*?

“It seems like you are trying to again place blame for all the atrocities commited in the world on one religion when all certain factions of “religions” are to blame at some point.”

The topic of conversation was Christianity and its crimes against Humanity. Certainly other religions have been likewise a poison on the planet. Best to get rid of all of them and think freely and rationally, wouldn’t you say? Examine evidence, reject dogma, embrace open dialog and democratic processes, that sort of thing. Sound good?

“How do you know this to be fact.? ”

Examine the evidence.

“In fact ,by being an athiest you are demonizing all religions .Being “Christ Like ” is not religion.”

Atheists (learn to spell, would you?) don’t ‘demonize’ *anything*. We criticize based on evidence that lead to conclusions demonstrated by *facts*.

“Everyone doesn’t think alike.The multitudes that do are easily led.I use science and nature to tell me there is a God.”

Then prove it, using science.

“I look at the complexity of all things around me and cannot begin to understand how someone could think all this wonder came from nothing.Just an explosion.A forming of matter in the vast universe on this little planet.Everything just happened ….
yea right.I also don’t see how you can use mythology and dogma in the same sentence.”

So the only possible solution is your imaginary invisible man in the sky? Wow. That’s pretty impressive. You have no evidence of a thing (‘god’) and have not looked for any other solutions or possibilities and have not tested any alternative postulates or theories, yet you have decided that your ‘god’ exists because of a collection of primitive writings over 1,500-2,000 years old. Well done.

“So ,Tom… What does your life mean? What is the purpose of your life?
Thanks, Tim.”

Why do you care? You’ve done nothing but make dishonest, grammatically inaccurate and poorly spelled statements…why would I care to share my personal philosophy with you?