A Quote For Atheist to consider :

[GodIsRealOrNothingMakesSince]

Christians are called to a very high standard of service to all people.

Uh-huh.

(CNN) - Accusations and revelations of sex abuse by Roman Catholic priests have been hitting American cities for a solid decade.

The now-global scandal broke in a big way in 2002 in Boston and has ensnared dioceses from Los Angeles to Kansas City to Memphis, along with many others.

But Philadelphia, where Archbishop Justin Rigali stepped down Tuesday - five months after the scandal struck his city – is different.

Pope accepts resignation of Philadelphia archbishop amid sex scandal

The scandal there could open a historic chapter in the abuse crisis, church watchers say, changing the way the American criminal justice system deals with church abuse and challenging the church’s claims that that reforms adopted in the wake of the Boston scandal have largely rooted out abuse.

“What makes Philadelphia devastating is allegations that priests who were facing credible accusation of sex abuse were still working in parishes as recently as February,” CNN senior Vatican analyst John Allen said. “This is not about misconduct that happened 50 years go. This is about the failures of today.”

http://religion.blogs.cnn.com/2011/07/19...tands-out/

Wikipedia- Joseph Stalin- Stalin followed the position adopted by Lenin that religion was an opiate that needed to be removed in order to construct the ideal communist society. To this end, his government promoted atheism through special atheistic education in schools, massive amounts of anti-religious propaganda, the antireligious work of public institutions (especially the Society of the Godless), discriminatory laws, and also a terror campaign against religious believers. By the late 1930s it had become dangerous to be publicly associated with religion.

Researchers before the 1991 dissolution of the Soviet Union attempting to count the number of people killed under Stalin's regime produced estimates ranging from 3 to 60 million.[88] After the Soviet Union dissolved, evidence from the Soviet archives also became available, containing official records of the execution of approximately 800,000 prisoners under Stalin for either political or criminal offenses, around 1.7 million deaths in the Gulags and some 390,000 deaths during kulak forced resettlement – for a total of about 3 million officially recorded victims in these categories.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_stalin


Oh come on. Don't give me that crap. Both sides are guilty because there are always people who will pervert the belief (or for atheism non- belief) of something and use it for their own self gain because a simple fact of life is there are some messed up people in the world. Don't start that crap because there is just as much stuff like the above for atheist as there are Christians.

As Richard Dawkins says "Hitler and Stalin both had mustaches, but they didn't kill in the name of it." So with that response that I failed to waste my time reading most likely had to deal with atheist killing more people than religion. Have you ever heard of someone killing in the name of atheism? No. But you have heard people killing in the name of the Lord. Please come up with a better argument. And yet the bible has yet to prove that atheists doing something to harm the world? We do much more work helping people than you all do.

---

Atheism: The belief that there was nothing and nothing happened to nothing and then nothing magically exploded for no reason, 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 since.

But god was just there? Makes perfect sense, not since. Please learn proper English.

Fixed it.

There's a lot of shit you need to fix. Accusing that Stalin killed in the name of Atheism is the most ignorant thing I've ever heard. Get your shit straight.

You need to get your stuff straight. There are many people who killed in the name of atheism in an attempt to get rid of the weaker (mentally and physically disabled or others) to "encourage survival of the fittest" or in Joseph Stalin's case to weed out Christians so that the government could have sole say in what the people should do the there was no other institution to do so. Now I am NOT saying that this is what atheism is about by any means at ALL. Actually i believe this is a total perversion of the original intent of atheism and I am merely portraying that people will pervert the original good intent of something and twist it to their own evil ways. It's a common fact of life that there are some messed up people in this world who use certain institutions as a structure for that they do when in fact their just messed up themselves. So I'm saying that obviously people who are messed up will cling to something as big Christianity and pervert it and do terrible things. These people give a bad name to both groups when they are not true followers of it at all. And i believe that is something everybody could agree with.