If You Were An Atheist

[Salacious B. Crumb]

Oh, so christianity forces you to forgive? And, you need to be reminded to forgive. Nice morals.

You know you can forgive people as an atheist right? It's not only exclusive to christianity.

Of course atheists can forgive people...but those on here don't seem to be very forgiving. It's interesting that you say that in your second line just after the tone of the first. A number of you go out of your way to find news accounts of theists doing wrong, and I don't see a lot of forgiveness in those threads.

Many of these articles of which you speak, are theists, committing highly immoral acts because their book of garbage tells them to. They're not seeking forgiveness for anything. As long as they have a book, that they can pick and choose whatever morality suits them best in a certain situation, they are justified in whatever action they carry out.

Some of these things aren't in church doctrine. For example, the priest pedophile scenario.. They get away with it over and over again, and their church covers up what they've done. That's not moral, in my opinion anyway. Here's the thing about christianity: You get to do whatever the hell you want, and say, "I'm sorry jesus", and everything magically disappears. In the world I live in, I don't see it that way. If that happened to my child, to me, that's unforgivable. In fairy tale land, you get to go fly on clouds with jesus, but in real life, people's lives are destroyed from an event like that. That's something that I may never be able to forgive someone for, even if I was a christian.