RE: Where's the line between atheist and oppressor?
June 26, 2014 at 9:04 am
(This post was last modified: June 26, 2014 at 9:08 am by IAmTheeWallrus.)
I find it endlessly ironic the way that Christianity insists on depicting it's self as a "victim".
Perhaps it's inseparable from the system of belief.
Truth be told even someone only casually familiar with scripture can see the attitude toward "unbelievers".
Most atheist feel the same about believers as they would about "flat earthers". If you want to call that persecution then so be it. I guess I persecute believers in Big Foot and Unicorns also. I'd term "active" atheism as self defense. Theists feel perfectly fine about prejudice against atheist both formally and informally. In many places in the US it is officially illegal for atheists to hold public office for instance.
Bible quotes. (Just a very few)
And yes I know that some quotes can be used to defend an opposing position, which to me just points up what a jumbled mess of incoherent contradictions most scripture is. The beliefs of iron age people.
Perhaps it's inseparable from the system of belief.
Truth be told even someone only casually familiar with scripture can see the attitude toward "unbelievers".
Most atheist feel the same about believers as they would about "flat earthers". If you want to call that persecution then so be it. I guess I persecute believers in Big Foot and Unicorns also. I'd term "active" atheism as self defense. Theists feel perfectly fine about prejudice against atheist both formally and informally. In many places in the US it is officially illegal for atheists to hold public office for instance.
Bible quotes. (Just a very few)
And yes I know that some quotes can be used to defend an opposing position, which to me just points up what a jumbled mess of incoherent contradictions most scripture is. The beliefs of iron age people.
Quote:They are without God.
"Whosoever ... abideth not in the doctrine of Christ, hath not God." -- 2 John 9
They are all antichrists.
"For many deceivers are entered into the world, who confess not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh. This is a deceiver and an antichrist." -- 2 John 7
They should be shunned. Neither marry nor be friends with them.
"Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness? And what concord hath Christ with Belial? or what part hath he that believeth with an infidel? ... Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord." -- 2 Cor.6:14-17
They should be killed.
"If thy brother, the son of thy mother, or thy son, or thy daughter, or the wife of thy bosom, or thy friend, which is as thine own soul, entice thee secretly, saying, Let us go and serve other gods, which thou hast not known, thou, nor thy fathers; Namely, of the gods of the people which are round about you ... Thou shalt not consent unto him, nor hearken unto him; neither shall thine eye pity him, neither shalt thou spare, neither shalt thou conceal him: But thou shalt surely kill him; thine hand shall be first upon him to put him to death, and afterwards the hand of all the people. And thou shalt stone him with stones, that he die." -- Dt.13:6-10
