(September 5, 2012 at 5:10 pm)Ace Otana Wrote: If they consider an atheist as a threat, even if the atheist has no interest in engaging in debate, they must harbor doubt about their beliefs. Otherwise it wouldn't bother them at all.
Indeed! Some years ago a movie called "The Golden Compass" was released in theaters. Apparently, the author of the book it was based on was an atheist, and some of the side stories (which ended up not even being in the movie) endorsed atheism. One week at religious ed, we were given a sheet to take home to our parents, warning them not to let us see the movie, lest it negatively influence us. Even at the time I thought it was bizarre that the church thought faith could be broken be a single (not especially popular, even) movie.
I now know better. I imagine that they thought that 'kids' would be easily swayed away from 'good', but even then, why? Atheism doesn't offer any ultimate reward, the implications that when you did you die are kind of scary at first. Many people remain in denial; they want to believe. So why did the parish feel the need to make a big deal over nothing?
John Adams Wrote:The Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion.
