One of the biggest problems I have with Christianity is it implies that the here and now is not worth bothering with, that only the "after life" matters. SO many Christians live their lives worrying over where they are "heading" instead of focusing on all those areas of THIS life that could use their help.

That might explain the hypocritical douche baggery I see from the Christian community. Of course there are Christians who are awesome human beings but this is because they choose to be good people to their fellow man. They may give a deity the "credit," but they are responsible for going forth doing good things to improve society.

Truthfully speaking, if you're more focused on heaven and hell and that's your driving force behind how you conduct yourself, you will place undue focus on yourself and not on helping others. It's sad because it cheapens the value of human life and only focuses on "another life." As if this life is pointless.

(February 27, 2014 at 6:50 pm)Jacob(smooth) Wrote: Troll?

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(February 27, 2014 at 6:50 pm)Kayenneh Wrote: Unless it somehow escaped your attention, when I write in green, I'm on official moderation business. Last warning missy, play by the rules, or I'm going to stick my banhammer so far up your ass that you won't poop straight for a month!

I'm actually slightly aroused!

Talk like that some more.

Dont say that,Kayenneth is a innocent bunny.
... execept in A69 shes a playboy bunny.

(February 27, 2014 at 7:03 pm)JesusLover1 Wrote: My dad presented something interesting to me. When atheists shout an explictive, they say "Oh my god!", not something like "Oh my allah!" Also he told me he once heard a preacher was in Vietnam and talking to a bunch of atheists. They said they didn't believe in God, yet later all came crying claiming they wanted to accept Jesus into their heart. My mom says everyone at one point gets a chance to be introduced to Christ.

It depends on what they learned to say as kids, doesn't it? I personally don't say OMG, but I never got in the habit of the first place as I was raised not to say 'God' casually. I'm sure many former Muslims who are now atheists say whatever explitives they're in the habit of using.

I was 42 before I knowing met my second atheist, but if I believed all the 'personal' war stories about atheists in WWII and Vietnam I've heard on the internet, I'd have to conclude there were more atheists in the military than were left at home.

Don't believe everything you hear from anyone, especially your parents. Almost all parents will lie if they think it will help you to turn out the way they think you should better than the truth will. 'Adjusting the facts' of an anecdote to better make the point they want is one of the most common ways they will do this.

But I'm sure some athiests will revert to childhood indoctrination under enough stress. It's called 'regression'. I've never met an atheist who has, but it would be surprising if there weren't any. It implies there's a God about as much as a Hindu crying for Krishna means there's a Krishna, or calling for your mommy under fire means she'll come and save you.

Personally, I've had open heart surgery (12 years ago) and spun out of control in an ice storm just a few weeks ago and in neither situation did it occur to me to appeal to God. I've been an atheist for nearly 20 years though, and was only an agnostic theist for ten years before that, so maybe I've just lost the habit. But again, never meeting anyone when they were an atheist and seeing them convert under stress makes me think it's much rarer than some people make it out to be.

(February 28, 2014 at 12:17 pm)Mothonis_Cathicgal Wrote: Dont say that,Kayenneh is a innocent bunny.

Me, innocent?! Oh sweet Motho, you are so in the wrong!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b9X4rZAA4y8

(February 27, 2014 at 7:07 pm)JesusLover1 Wrote: Atheism:
The belief that there was nothing and nothing happened to nothing and then magically exploded creating everything and then a bunch of everything magically rearranged itself for no reason what so ever into self-replicating bits which then turned into dinosaurs.
Makes perfect sense.

Atheism: Not believing any God or gods are actually real.

(February 27, 2014 at 10:02 pm)Fromper Wrote: Am I the only one who literally laughed out loud when they saw this thread title?

I balked pretty loudly.

Then I read the thread title "One final attempt to try and get through to you guys" and saw it was also a thread started by JesusLover1 and thought "wow, she gave up fast."

(February 27, 2014 at 7:10 pm)JesusLover1 Wrote: Who created hell? Satan.

Um, that's not what the Bible says.

(February 28, 2014 at 12:20 pm)Kayenneh Wrote:

(February 28, 2014 at 12:17 pm)Mothonis_Cathicgal Wrote: Dont say that,Kayenneh is a innocent bunny.

Me, innocent?! Oh sweet Motho, you are so in the wrong!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b9X4rZAA4y8

Um.. Kayenneh please keep typing in green... rrrrrrrrrrrr

(February 28, 2014 at 12:20 pm)Kayenneh Wrote:

(February 28, 2014 at 12:17 pm)Mothonis_Cathicgal Wrote: Dont say that,Kayenneh is a innocent bunny.

Me, innocent?! Oh sweet Motho, you are so in the wrong!

you gave me nickname

to the op .even i the humblest atheist on this forum could destroy your arguements.

(February 27, 2014 at 7:12 pm)JesusLover1 Wrote: You guys quote other people all the time.
By the way your God Dawkins created memes.

And we give them credit when we do, rather than pass it off as our own words.

We don't have any gods. That's what makes us atheists. You lot seem to think more of Dawkins than we do.

Dawkins named memes. Giving something a name doesn't mean you invented it. He noted some qualities that seem to help notions persist, and gave a name to that set of qualiteis. The set of qualities has been around as long as we've had language.