MusicIsMotion wrote: 
I don't have any, that is the whole point. You cannot disrespect or offend me unless you personally attack my family or me. There is a certain elegance in beauty in that. You should not be concerned what others think of your beliefs, they are yours and yours alone.

 sirdroseph wrote: 
If taking any life allows you to sleep like a baby, that says something about you.

How do you feel about this soldier that went off the rails after serving 3 tours of duty and killed all those Afghani people? Should he be executed?

 buzz wrote: 

Again, common sense. I would kill him without a second thought and sleep like a baby that night too.

 Beaker wrote: 
Killing someone is a reflection on you not on someone else.

 Beaker wrote: 
would that be a straight line or do you have some ziggin and zaggin going on?

 Beaker wrote: 
would that be a straight line or do you have some ziggin and zaggin going on?

 MusicIsMotion wrote: 
You are free to feel the way you do.

 hippiechick wrote: 
HC, I'm not trying to shove anything down your throat.  But I resent your "fairy tale" remarks as well as your lack of remorse for anyone's feelings that you disagree with.  You are officially my most un-favorite personality on this forum and I think I'll refrain from ever talking to you again.  You bring me down with most of what I read from you and I view you as a damaged soul.  So from my heart, God bless YOU.

./thatisall

 MusicIsMotion wrote: 
Don't read this thread then.

No one can stop you from believing what you believe. Believe away. It is hard for me, as an atheist, to understand what you believe in, but I would not stop you from believing it. Just don't make me believe.

I have a question.  Was this thread meant to be comedic, legitimate or was it generally just meant to turn into a God-bashing party?  I'm really trying to respect the atheist mentality and judge-not but wow.  It's sometimes painful to read the hateful words of a bunch of self-proclaimed moralists and pacifists who slam the One that's lead me through so much pain and suffering in my life.  And yeah, I know... if I didn't want to read it, I shouldn't have clicked the link.  But in my effort to maintain respect and appreciation (certainly also to understand more) for certain personalities' beliefs that I've come to enjoy reading from here, I did.  I guess I'm just going to have to delete this bookmark, leave and simply enjoy the music from a stand-alone player. 

Bash away, atheists.  A certain Christian here is certainly trying not to disrespect your beliefs but you should know that some of your words hurt and I, for one, am offended.  Thanks, "intellects".

 cc_rider wrote: 

word.

 cc_rider wrote: 
I don't really care what people believe in, sometimes I wish I believed in anything! If people want to believe in fairy tales, and it isn't hurt me, what do I care.

 hippiechick wrote: 



I would hope your maternal instincts wouLd kick in and you wouldn't waste precious time figuring out a "humane" way to stop your daughters murder.

 winter wrote:  That's what I would call an 'activist atheist'. Someone who spends a lot of time researching, who can spout chapter and verse from Scripture, and delight in exposing the contradictions of religion. I find those folks tedious, because they cannot grasp how fully 'faith' dominates the discussion.

There are a lot of us who walk the line between atheist and agnostic too. I think there is something else beyond our physical senses, but I am reluctant to ascribe conventional descriptions of 'God' to it. And I also think it is possible our spiritual experiences, including paranormal activities, are constructs from our unconsciousness. We are discovering new things about our brains every day, like the placebo effect, for example. Our brains may know things we cannot process on a physical level. Maybe I'm a Jungian in that respect, I don't know.

 buzz wrote: 
I would make every effort to save my daughter without killing her attacker.

 hippiechick wrote: 
That's not what the Bible says. It says murder. It means murder.
 
Question for ya-
If your daughter was being attacked and the only way to stop it was to kill the attacker, what would you do? If you don't kill him, he will surely kill your daughter. Would you watch your child die because you believe it's always wrong to kill?

Just to be clear: not all atheists are of the "religion sucks, and here are the shortcomings of your preferred religious text that prove it" camp.

 mzpro5 wrote: 
It's all hooey to me

 hippiechick wrote: 



No because that is what the God of the old testament did mean.

Our ideals that all killing is wrong is a relatively new idea from a historical perspective.

As usual our need to impose our current values on other cultures, be it historically or geographically, leads to much misunderstanding.

 mzpro5 wrote: 
Didn't anyone hear god yell "That's not what I meant!!!"

Believe it or not, I taught Sunday School for many years, mostly art classes, but the last year I taught 4th graders. I was teaching a unit on Exodus, and I had made a game called "Joshua Fought the Battle of Jericho." That actually turned me completely against religion and god, because I could not morally teach children that it's okay to kill people that don't believe what they believe.

I quit teaching, quite the temple, became an atheist.