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I think the reason most atheists don't get moral standards and personal accountability, is because they've seen personal accountability thrown out of the window by most Christians in their experience. You know the type, blame God for everything, rely on him for everything. I think I can see their frustrations.
Allowing for the opportunity for something to happen is not the same as encouraging it to happen, or being accountable for those who do those things. Do you charge the city of Las Vegas when a man hire's a prostitute on the strip? The city knows it happens, and could put an absolute end to all of it, but it is in no way responsible for the actions of every individual within it's JURISDICTION or creative control.
I think the reason most atheists don't get moral standards and personal accountability, is because they've seen personal accountability thrown out of the window by most Christians in their experience. You know the type, blame God for everything, rely on him for everything. I think I can see their frustrations.
Allowing for the opportunity for something to happen is not the same as encouraging it to happen, or being accountable for those who do those things. Do you charge the city of Las Vegas when a man hire's a prostitute on the strip? The city knows it happens, and could put an absolute end to all of it, but it is in no way responsible for the actions of every individual within it's JURISDICTION or creative control.
"There ought to be a term that would designate those who actually follow the teachings of Jesus, since the word 'Christian' has been largely divorced from those teachings, and so polluted by fundamentalists that it has come to connote their polar opposite: intolerance, vindictive hatred, and bigotry." -- Philip Stater, Huffington Post
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