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RE: The Atheist Obsession with Insulting Christians
September 30, 2015 at 8:46 am
(September 30, 2015 at 8:44 am)ChadWooters Wrote: Quote:And there were communists, socialists and other non believers doing the same and perishing the same for their efforts. They just fly under the Chad radar
But the question is whether they were motivated by their unbelief to do so in the same way that the Christian exemplars were? In other words can you honestly say that any particular social reformer or hero stood up and said that their atheism compelled them to fight for their cause? Please give me an example.
Dawkins. 
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RE: The Atheist Obsession with Insulting Christians
September 30, 2015 at 9:01 am
(September 30, 2015 at 8:46 am)houseofcantor Wrote: (September 30, 2015 at 8:44 am)ChadWooters Wrote: But the question is whether they were motivated by their unbelief to do so in the same way that the Christian exemplars were? In other words can you honestly say that any particular social reformer or hero stood up and said that their atheism compelled them to fight for their cause? Please give me an example.
Dawkins.
That's really really sad if you think Dawkins is a hero comparable to any of the people I listed.
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RE: The Atheist Obsession with Insulting Christians
September 30, 2015 at 9:08 am
(September 30, 2015 at 9:01 am)ChadWooters Wrote: (September 30, 2015 at 8:46 am)houseofcantor Wrote: Dawkins.
That's really really sad if you think Dawkins is a hero comparable to any of the people I listed.
I didn't know that there was an objective standard for heroic action. 
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RE: The Atheist Obsession with Insulting Christians
September 30, 2015 at 9:09 am
(September 30, 2015 at 8:44 am)ChadWooters Wrote: Quote:And there were communists, socialists and other non believers doing the same and perishing the same for their efforts. They just fly under the Chad radar
But the question is whether they were motivated by their unbelief to do so in the same way that the Christian exemplars were? In other words can you honestly say that any particular social reformer or hero stood up and said that their atheism compelled them to fight for their cause? Please give me an example.
This is pure nonsense, and proves PT's point that people will be good or bad regardless of the particular morality they ascribe to.
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RE: The Atheist Obsession with Insulting Christians
September 30, 2015 at 9:21 am
(September 29, 2015 at 12:00 am)ChadWooters Wrote: (September 28, 2015 at 11:33 pm)TheRocketSurgeon Wrote: Our morality has improved in almost every measurable way, over the course of history. Six million Jews say otherwise.
And 40+ million aborted babies.
So much for our improved morality.
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RE: The Atheist Obsession with Insulting Christians
September 30, 2015 at 9:24 am
Aborted foetuses. Please let's not stoop to the weasel words level of language misuse.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
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RE: The Atheist Obsession with Insulting Christians
September 30, 2015 at 9:25 am
(September 29, 2015 at 12:59 pm)Parkers Tan Wrote: (September 29, 2015 at 9:48 am)ChadWooters Wrote: Therefore what? The Germans invaded Poland and occupied France as part of the Great Commission to spread the Gospel? No. They did it out of an idolatrous worship of State power. The faith of the German populous was irrelevant.
You clearly missed my point, which is that Christianity is no guarantee of morality.
You're right there.
It's still up to the individual - the individual Christian - to live according the principles and teachings of Christianity.
We gotta walk the walk and not just talk the talk.
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RE: The Atheist Obsession with Insulting Christians
September 30, 2015 at 9:30 am
(September 30, 2015 at 8:46 am)houseofcantor Wrote: (September 30, 2015 at 8:44 am)ChadWooters Wrote: But the question is whether they were motivated by their unbelief to do so in the same way that the Christian exemplars were? In other words can you honestly say that any particular social reformer or hero stood up and said that their atheism compelled them to fight for their cause? Please give me an example.
Dawkins.
To be fair, Dawkins isn't a militant atheist for the sake of atheism. It's because he's a scientist, a biologist and got tired of religion getting in the way of facts. All he wants is the truth. And as a biologist myself I understand his point of view. I get incredibly frustrated when I hear people try to deny evolution, calling it 'just a theory', telling people to 'teach the controversy'. There is no controversy, I bet 99% of biologists accept evolution, it's a fact, a proven, demonstrable fact. And once you start with evolution, it's hard to stop getting annoyed whenever the truth of something else is being obscured by religious feelings or dogma.
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RE: The Atheist Obsession with Insulting Christians
September 30, 2015 at 9:31 am
(September 30, 2015 at 9:21 am)Randy Carson Wrote: (September 29, 2015 at 12:00 am)ChadWooters Wrote: Six million Jews say otherwise.
And 40+ million aborted babies.
So much for our improved morality.
Women have right's get over it and besides you are a man were both guys we cannot dictate to women what to do with their bodies.
That being said they have every right to get a abortion.
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RE: The Atheist Obsession with Insulting Christians
September 30, 2015 at 9:31 am
(September 30, 2015 at 9:21 am)Randy Carson Wrote: (September 29, 2015 at 12:00 am)ChadWooters Wrote: Six million Jews say otherwise.
And 40+ million aborted babies.
So much for our improved morality.
Is this going to become an abortion thread? Do you want to talk about that? About how wrong you are? Because I'm ready! Let's go!
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“Young earth creationism is essentially the position that all of modern science, 90% of living scientists and 98% of living biologists, all major university biology departments, every major science journal, the American Academy of Sciences, and every major science organization in the world, are all wrong regarding the origins and development of life….but one particular tribe of uneducated, bronze aged, goat herders got it exactly right.” - Chuck Easttom
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