(November 5, 2011 at 10:44 pm)tackattack Wrote:(November 2, 2011 at 11:33 am)Doubting Thomas Wrote: I still find it difficult to understand the extreme hatred that Christians have for atheists.
I don't get it either though, perhaps you're on to something at the end there.
Sometimes I'd just love to say, if you're going to be in church and act like a twat, then you must really need some more God in your life, so have a seat in the front row, this sermon is for you.
Fundamentalism does better when it has an enemy. I don't have time to get into this but an enemy is a unifying factor. It's the thing that prompts them to put aside any individual differences they may have and unite to fight the enemy.
In the past the pope was the enemy. For a few centuries he was actually a clear and present danger. Now the "Antichrist" of the past is of no real danger (I think we can thank atheists for this to some degree, hee hee). Fundies (I still have difficulty with this name because it used to be a name of a brand of edible underwear) now have to have another enemie.
I have studied the Bible and the theology behind Christianity for many years. I have been to many churches. I have walked the depth and the breadth of the religion and, as a result of this, I have a lot of bullshit to scrape off the bottom of my shoes. ~Ziploc Surprise
