Why do you care?

[Shell B]

Here you are . . .

[Godscreated]

Your right you have every right to make your feelings known and you guys do it well, I know. Actually if you guys would come out front more so others know what and how you think and believe then there might not be as many misunderstanding between christians and atheist. Frankly we do want people to know Christ loves them and has a plan of redemption and would we not be negligent and uncaring if we are right. The bold if is for you guys.

Speak for yourself, GC. This douchenozzle "hates" atheism and is going to bring his sword to cut us down. Besides, he's been around plenty of atheists, read his blog. He's a hateful sack of shit.

I generally do, sometimes I will speak for christianity either as it should be or as I know it to be. I try not to sugar coat the things I know but sometimes all of us let emotions get the better of us. As for Egor I want comment on him/her.

[Oldandeasilyconfused]

christianity is not a religion it is being part of a family.

Are you being fatuous and disingenuous on purpose or just can't help yourself?

Christianity is most certainly a religion by any definition of which I'm aware:

Religion;particular system of faith and worship (the Christian, Muslim,Buddhist religion); The Concise Oxford Dictionary

From Wikipedia

Religion is a collection of cultural systems, belief systems, and worldviews that establishes symbols that relate humanity to spirituality and, sometimes, to moral values.[1] Many religions have narratives, symbols, traditions and sacred histories that are intended to give meaning to life or to explain the origin of life or the universe. They tend to derive morality, ethics, religious laws or a preferred lifestyle from their ideas about the cosmos and human nature.

The word religion is sometimes used interchangeably with faith or belief system, but religion differs from private belief in that it has a public aspect. Most religions have organized behaviors, including clerical hierarchies, a definition of what constitutes adherence or membership, congregations of laity, regular meetings or services for the purposes of veneration of a deity or for prayer, holy places (either natural or architectural), and/or scriptures. The practice of a religion may also include sermons, commemoration of the activities of a god or gods, sacrifices, festivals, feasts, trance, initiations, funerary services, matrimonial services, meditation, music, art, dance, public service, or other aspects of human culture.

The development of religion has taken different forms in different cultures. Some religions place an emphasis on belief, while others emphasize practice. Some religions focus on the subjective experience of the religious individual, while others consider the activities of the religious community to be most important. Some religions claim to be universal, believing their laws and cosmology to be binding for everyone, while others are intended to be practiced only by a closely defined or localized group. In many places religion has been associated with public institutions such as education, hospitals, the family, government, and political hierarchies.

Some academics studying the subject have divided religions into three broad categories: world religions, a term which refers to transcultural, international faiths; indigenous religions, which refers to smaller, culture-specific or nation-specific religious groups; and new religious movements, which refers to recently developed faiths.[2] One modern academic theory of religion, social constructionism, says that religion is a modern concept that suggests all spiritual practice and worship follows a model similar to the Abrahamic religions as an orientation system that helps to interpret reality and define human beings,[3] and thus religion, as a concept, has been applied inappropriately to non-Western cultures that are not based upon such systems, or in which these systems are a substantially simpler construct

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religion

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Here you are . . .

Ah, close enough.No chips? (fries)

[Shell B]

I know chips are fries. I'm a New Englander.

That's as good as I can do on the sauce, unless you're making spaghetti.

[J.D.]

It has been a slow process for me over decades that has caused me to react negatively when I hear the word "Christian", and it started as Christian fundamentalist basically took over one of our political parties, and as I found myself disagreeing with them politically, my attitude towards them changed.

As time went on these people stated pushing agendas that were just strange to me. One example is the debate to teach creationism as science, and another was Christian pharmacists not wanting to dispense birth control pills to women.

I am never outwardly hostile or even critical of Christians, but I could not disagree with them more.

[Xavier]

Atheism will eventually destroy any society in which it is allowed to reach a critical mass, if you will. I don’t know what percentage that would be, nor do I know how long it would take to, say, destroy English society. But it would. Once a society bases its laws on atheism, then only the powerful rule because they are powerful and that becomes dog-eat-dog. There is no stability, there is nothing but civil unrest.

So, there’s that.

Rubbish.
The more atheist our society becomes the more rational and educated a society it will becomes and the more advanced it will become.
Christianity is a big white elephant that serves no purpose.

Throughout the ages Christianity has been opposed to and held back progress in both morality and science

[Oldandeasilyconfused]

I know chips are fries. I'm a New Englander.

That's as good as I can do on the sauce, unless you're making spaghetti.

Fair enough,thanks.

New England? Which State. I've only been to Connecticut,and loved it

[Shell B]

Massachusetts. The best of the bunch.

[Oldandeasilyconfused]

Atheism will eventually destroy any society in which it is allowed to reach a critical mass, if you will.

Really. Could you provide some proof for that claim or do you continue to speak ex rectum?


Let me guess; you haven't actually spent a lot of time in a secular country?

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Massachusetts. The best of the bunch.

Wonderful.New England is one of the few places in the US I'd actually like to line.Others include upstate New York, Washington BC and Hawaii (NOT Honolulu. I loved visiting,but would not live there on a bet--that would be if I could not live in Australia,Canada (BC) or England (Cambridgeshire)

Tangent;our island state of Tasmania has a bit of a New England feel.

Tasmania (abbreviated as TAS) is an Australian island and state. It is 240 kilometres (150 mi) south of the continent, separated by Bass Strait. The state includes the island of Tasmania—the 26th largest island in the world—and the surrounding islands. The state has a population of 507,626 (as of June 2010), of whom almost half reside in the greater Hobart precinct. Tasmania’s area is 68,401 square kilometres (26,410 sq mi), of which the main island covers 62,409 square kilometres (24,096 sq mi).[7]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tasmania

[Minimalist]

I agree up to a point, some christians hate gays heck some christians hate other christians. Christ however has taught that we are to love all people.

So in addition to everything else your boy was a shitty teacher, eh G-C?

Amazing that you profess to follow such a loser.