(August 30, 2015 at 6:34 pm)deep thinker Wrote:The French Catholics originally created the word "atheist" to describe the French Protestants during their religious wars. The French Catholics hated their fellow Christians because they wanted freedom of religion to worship the same deity that they believed in using the same religious doctrine. So they did their best to kill all of them. They eventually gave up.[hide Wrote:abaris pid='1036063' dateline='1440970974']
Yes, I have anger issues when dealing with ignorant people or trolls. So, in my best uncontrolled anger voice: There are two possibilities. You are an idiot, who is incapable of reading what we all have posted for the last few pages. Or you are simply a troll, who loves to provoke. In any case, why don't you take your belief question and shove it up your ass?[/hide]Quote:Another insult without defining your own beliefs...I'm not surprised. Atheism is a very convenient religion...a religion/cult that insists all faiths of a higher power are false. And yes, atheism is a religion that allows certain beliefs but does not allow other beliefs...just like any other religion. Your religion rejects Christ but accepts the big bang. That is a belief system and is a religion. Rather than go to church to share your beliefs you organize on the internet to preach your religion of hate and anti-theistic beliefs. Your belief that everything came into existence through some type of unobservable natural process is a belief.
It would be like if I started an Anti-Atheism religion that refused to accept any theory that could not be observed. Yes, my new religion does not define what it believes as true but clearly defines what it believes to be false. This still qualifies as a belief system and a religion.
If atheism were not a religion, it would be just as open minded to the existence of an eternal god as it is open to the idea of an eternal universe. Atheism accepts one faith that is not observable (eternal universe) and rejects another faith that is not observable (eternal god). How does it feel to talk so negatively about religious beliefs but spend so many hours of your life spewing your gospel of choice? Now, who is the idiot? Damn son, you just got served.
"Word Origin and History for atheist Expand
n.
1570s, from French athéiste (16c.), from Greek atheos "without god, denying the gods; abandoned of the gods; godless, ungodly," from a- "without" + theos "a god" (see Thea )."
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/atheist
In Isaiah 41-23-24 (ERV) Isaiah said: "23 What signs did you give in the past to prove that you really are gods? Do something! Do anything, good or bad, so that we can see that you are alive. Then we might fear and respect you."
24 “Look, you false gods are worthless. You cannot do anything. Only some horrible fool would want to worship you.”
He said that people worshipped worthless gods but the fool thought that his was real. I agree with him that gods are worthless but also say that his god is worthless as well. Not one deity of any kind has ever done anything godly since the first con man created it to fool his dumb buddies and get rich off of them. Everything that has happened or will happen on this planet has already happened before. People's favorite deities had zilch to do with it because not one of them is real.
