Comments on: Atheism Poster

By: Ryft Braeloch

Ryft Braeloch — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 01:26:34 +0000

IPU_bbhhh,

The amount of truth contained in the second poster reflects the amount of truth contained in the first poster. That’s the whole point. That you at once completely missed the point and think everything on the first poster is true both are very, very revealing.

By: Gary Simmons

Gary Simmons — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 03:53:55 +0000

It saddens me that people today don’t know what symbolic literature is. Boo to atheism.

By: IPU_bbhhh

IPU_bbhhh — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 22:18:00 +0000

Eric f.: The thing about the Christianity poster is that everything on it is true. The flowery language is taken away, but the essence of Christianity really *is* the belief in a ‘cosmic Jewish zombie’, etc. The things on C Michael Patton’s poster are actually untrue, particularly the bits about “a reasonless universe without order”, which is basically the anti-thesis of atheism, and “the ultimate emotional articulation of self-centeredness”, which is actually one of the major ideas of *religion*. I mean, athiests don’t believe in a universe created solely for their benefit. And in any case, most of the people posting here are in favour of the poster. (If they’re actually addressing it, that is.)

Also, props to Disgruntled Atheist for taking on all of these evangelicals. Rock on.

By: jesus christ

jesus christ — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 04:46:41 +0000

ckd,

u stated; The reality is there are answers that line up very clearly and very well with the biblical account of our history: yet i see none of these “answers” in what u posted, so please enlighten me on these facts.

Also, u stated: Jesus taught that none of us are worthy but that belief in him is the way to heaven. I personally believe in Him and live my life accordingly without fear of not measuring up.: what i take from that statement is that u believe in “him” because it is “the way to heaven” not because of hard evidence. fact (hard evidence) is much different than fear (i want to go to heaven) my friend.

By: Eric f

Eric f — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 06:41:39 +0000

It’s too bad that many of the people responding to your post miss the point of your post. Also, I find it ironic that an atheist (or whomever) can post a photo with a demeaning, uneducated, and crude summation of Christianity and be applauded. However, when a Christian returns with a caption that disagrees with an artheistic worldview, it is considered rude, unthoughtful, ignorant and so
forth. Perhaps the creator of the Christianity poster thinks that Christians who viewed the poster would sit back and passively accept such inaccuracies about their historic faith. heaven forbid a Christian should use satire or irony in their blogs or responses to criticisms against their faith….

By: ckd

ckd — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 03:35:35 +0000

Disgruntled Atheist,
Your three questions are very similar to the ones I had when I was deciding which way to turn and heading towards the unbelief side, as you described. Funny thing was I found the answers and they led me to a strong belief in God and Christ and the bible. For me I got to a point where I really wanted answers and let go of the things I had been taught and tried the best I could to look for truth without bias. I began to informally study, as much as I could, all sides of the equations. Religion, science, theology, philosophy, etc and when I lined them up without as much of my own opinion as I could shake being involved, God won.
The reality is there are answers that line up very clearly and very well with the biblical account of our history, including dinosaurs. It talks about those guys a couple of times. The miscarriage thing, if I’m correct is a catholic belief, not necessarily a bible thing and worrying about going to hell because you are not worthy is not biblical. Jesus taught that none of us are worthy but that belief in him is the way to heaven. I personally believe in Him and live my life accordingly without fear of not measuring up. He knows I never will and He’s good with it, but because I am thankful for His love for me I try to my best to serve His purpose.
The choice is yours, free will. But make sure you are making the choice for yourself. Not because you were disappointed in people who presented God incorrectly to you and not because some flawed human (darwin), who himself gave his studies an out cause he knew he could be wrong, and then more flawed humans ran with his idea and now shove a theory done our throats like it is fact (which noone can claim darwinism as absolute fact). Make your choice on unbiased balanced information or make the choice to leave your options open for the time being.
I absolutely can say I know without a doubt that God is real and Jesus is the way because of the evidence and information available to us. and I am thankful for that. Keep asking the questions and search for true answers, this is too important to walk away from lightly.

By: tyler m taber

tyler m taber — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 00:12:31 +0000

Disgruntled Atheist,

You write:

“do you not beleive god gave us free will? with that free will should we not be able to beleive what we want, without your interfering?”

How do you reconcile your atheism with human free will?

By: tony

tony — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 16:35:24 +0000

look at us, and when i say us i mean all the human population, animals with our complex brains or whatever, trying to figure out why we’re here, to me this is just idk maybe an unnessary debate, i dont mean to offend people who spend thier lives doing research or people who dedicate their life to god, but look at what has come of it. endless debates, brutal wars, just chaos and anything but peace among us. what if one day u find the answer, and their is no god what now? all those deaths in vain, and what if their is a god? idk… im just saying we should spend our lives loving ourselves and our families, live our lives being happy and not stressing ourselves on stuff we shouldnt stress ourselves with.

By: Pat - AU

Pat - AU — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 12:06:38 +0000

Seattle – why indeed. Why did Christianity impose itself over virtually all other religions? Some of which pre-dated Christianity itself and from which the Church took deities, beliefs and symbolic dates and moulded, reworded and overtook for their own purposes.
I stopped believing not because I had never read the bible, or only gone to church twice. I was actually a child with faith.

My most important relative is a devout, and more importantly practicing Catholic. Yet she respects me with the same courtesy that I give her.
I do not care if people are Christian, (or any of its many derivatives), Budhist, Muslim…
I only expect that my views be respected, just as I respect people of faith.

I was taught an old saying from my culture, at a very young age:
”Those who expect respect, must first give it.”

By: Seattle

Seattle — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 05:05:10 +0000

I think the reason I dont believe in god is because I only went to church for two years and I’ve only read the first two chapters in the old testament, a few months ago when I already thought the bible was fiction.

My thinking was, why was god(christian) real when all of those others gods were fake? It just never made sense to me.

I’m all for people believing in what they want. I just wish we would stop judging other groups on what the extreme members do. I believe most chritians are good moral people, like my friends, and I think religion really does help people. But when you have that whole preist scandal thing and people saying women are evil just because, then it kinda sours the whole thing for everyone. And then the same for atheists.