Posts: 11260
Threads: 61
Joined: January 5, 2013
Reputation:
123
RE: Do atheists give value to righteousness?
June 28, 2014 at 6:58 am
(June 28, 2014 at 5:34 am)Knowledge of God Wrote: That's the kind of shit which happens having no God.
What, asking for clarification? Thinking before I speak?
Yes, I can see where those would be strange concepts to you. Now, you gonna answer the question, or just be a dick? 
"YOU take the hard look in the mirror. You are everything that is wrong with this world. The only thing important to you, is you." - ronedee
Want to see more of my writing? Check out my (safe for work!) site, Unprotected Sects!
Posts: 141
Threads: 10
Joined: June 23, 2014
Reputation:
0
RE: Do atheists give value to righteousness?
June 28, 2014 at 7:02 am
(June 28, 2014 at 6:58 am)Esquilax Wrote: (June 28, 2014 at 5:34 am)Knowledge of God Wrote: That's the kind of shit which happens having no God.
What, asking for clarification? Thinking before I speak?
No, ignorance and poverty. Unhappiness and unrighteousness.
Posts: 11260
Threads: 61
Joined: January 5, 2013
Reputation:
123
RE: Do atheists give value to righteousness?
June 28, 2014 at 7:09 am
(June 28, 2014 at 7:02 am)Knowledge of God Wrote: No, ignorance and poverty. Unhappiness and unrighteousness.
Don't blame your inability to clearly express your question on me. Since you haven't defined righteousness, and I have a sneaking suspicion that it's not going to be the common usage and will instead contain some reference to god, I'm not going to play your little game until you've laid out your terms.
Your unwillingness to be honest about the framing of your own discussion has been noted, however.
"YOU take the hard look in the mirror. You are everything that is wrong with this world. The only thing important to you, is you." - ronedee
Want to see more of my writing? Check out my (safe for work!) site, Unprotected Sects!
Posts: 3022
Threads: 34
Joined: May 11, 2013
Reputation:
30
RE: Do atheists give value to righteousness?
June 28, 2014 at 7:14 am
Yo, knowledge of god, can you define 'righteousness' for me please, I don't know what it means and so am unable to participate in this discussion or answer your question until I do.
'The more I learn about people the more I like my dog'- Mark Twain
'You can have all the faith you want in spirits, and the afterlife, and heaven and hell, but when it comes to this world, don't be an idiot. Cause you can tell me you put your faith in God to put you through the day, but when it comes time to cross the road, I know you look both ways.' - Dr House
“Young earth creationism is essentially the position that all of modern science, 90% of living scientists and 98% of living biologists, all major university biology departments, every major science journal, the American Academy of Sciences, and every major science organization in the world, are all wrong regarding the origins and development of life….but one particular tribe of uneducated, bronze aged, goat herders got it exactly right.” - Chuck Easttom
"If my good friend Doctor Gasparri speaks badly of my mother, he can expect to get punched.....You cannot provoke. You cannot insult the faith of others. You cannot make fun of the faith of others. There is a limit." - Pope Francis on freedom of speech
Posts: 596
Threads: 3
Joined: January 21, 2013
Reputation:
7
RE: Do atheists give value to righteousness?
June 28, 2014 at 7:20 am
According to this site righteousness can only be achieved through faith in jesus christ as saviour.
http://christianity.about.com/od/glossar...usness.htm
If that's the case I think we might as well substitute the word righteousness for gullible.
What do you mean by righteousness kog?
Posts: 6843
Threads: 0
Joined: February 22, 2014
Reputation:
15
RE: Do atheists give value to righteousness?
June 28, 2014 at 4:34 pm
Lot was considered a righteous man and he knocked up both of his daughters. Maybe the word "righteous" means something like "scumbag".
Posts: 1946
Threads: 17
Joined: February 6, 2014
Reputation:
18
Do atheists give value to righteousness?
June 28, 2014 at 4:44 pm
(June 28, 2014 at 5:09 am)Knowledge of God Wrote: Does righteousness mean anything to an atheist?
That is a bit how God seperates mankind in his mind. The righteouss and the unrighteouss.
Let's say you say you are atheist, and you value righteousness very much. You even love it and are righteouss yourself, then why would you deny the existence of your master?
Claiming to know not only what, but how God thinks is the most blasphemous thing I've ever seen on this site.
Posts: 67288
Threads: 140
Joined: June 28, 2011
Reputation:
162
RE: Do atheists give value to righteousness?
June 28, 2014 at 5:12 pm
(June 28, 2014 at 5:09 am)Knowledge of God Wrote: Let's say you say you are atheist, and you value righteousness very much. You even love it and are righteouss yourself, then why would you deny the existence of your master? Out of my righteousness, of course. Remind -your master- that I do not recognize human beings as property.
I am the Infantry. I am my country’s strength in war, her deterrent in peace. I am the heart of the fight… wherever, whenever. I carry America’s faith and honor against her enemies. I am the Queen of Battle. I am what my country expects me to be, the best trained Soldier in the world. In the race for victory, I am swift, determined, and courageous, armed with a fierce will to win. Never will I fail my country’s trust. Always I fight on…through the foe, to the objective, to triumph overall. If necessary, I will fight to my death. By my steadfast courage, I have won more than 200 years of freedom. I yield not to weakness, to hunger, to cowardice, to fatigue, to superior odds, For I am mentally tough, physically strong, and morally straight. I forsake not, my country, my mission, my comrades, my sacred duty. I am relentless. I am always there, now and forever. I AM THE INFANTRY! FOLLOW ME!
Posts: 69247
Threads: 3759
Joined: August 2, 2009
Reputation:
259
RE: Do atheists give value to righteousness?
June 28, 2014 at 5:14 pm
Quote:"It is pity that good works, among some sorts of people, are so little valued, and good words admired in their stead. I mean seemingly pious discourses, instead of humane, benevolent actions. These they almost put out of countenance by calling morality, rotten morality; righteousness, ragged righteousness, and even filthy rags, and when you mention virtue, pucker up their noses; at the same time that they eagerly snuff up an empty, canting harangue, as if it were a posy of the choicest flowers"
[Benjamin Franklin
Posts: 15351
Threads: 118
Joined: January 13, 2014
Reputation:
117
RE: Do atheists give value to righteousness?
June 28, 2014 at 5:22 pm
So, ask a poorly and unclearly phrased question, tell everyone they're useless when they ask for clarification, assume everyone is struggling with "unhappiness and poverty" because they're not you, and plow your way past challenging questions.
That about it?
"There remain four irreducible objections to religious faith: that it wholly misrepresents the origins of man and the cosmos, that because of this original error it manages to combine the maximum servility with the maximum of solipsism, that it is both the result and the cause of dangerous sexual repression, and that it is ultimately grounded on wish-thinking." ~Christopher Hitchens, god is not Great
PM me your email address to join the Slack chat! I'll give you a taco(or five) if you join! --->There's an app and everything!<---
|
