Sentences with phrase «as an atheist who»

As an atheist who believes in «Choice» (I dislike the idea of abortion but see the need for people to be able to opt for it) and polygamy (marriage should be for any number of consenting adults regardless of gender) and believes that the idea of draconian anti-gun measures is anathema as it takes away an individual's right to live the way he wants to live, I think that if believing in a deity makes a person treat other people nicer then we should leave that person and his beliefs alone.

Marketing yourself as an atheist who feels the divine and respects faith.

If robust evangelicalism guaranteed continuing fidelity, the younger Schaeffer would not be writing odd books about his mother's sex life and describing his own spiritual life as an atheist who believes in God.

I've no doubt (as an atheist who generally has a low opinion of religion) that religion can stop violence — for some people.

They used their public relations powers to begin vilifying those who did not share their beliefs, such as atheists who were branded for many many many years as satanists, pagans, etc..

Also, as an atheist who dislikes no group (religion, race, creed, etc) whatsoever, calling atheists antisemites is extremely offensive.

Extremism is on both ends... the ultra religious person who won't accept Scientific discovery (btw — I really don't know any religious friends who fit this) as well as the Atheist who only believes what they can see, hear, touch or smell (only the visible world??).

Let's not forget also that MLK was no saint, so his faith didn't help him as much as an atheist who never cheated on their wife.

This applies to the theist as well as the atheist who has overstepped the bounds of reason and asserted the non-existence of God.

As an atheist who is in a school full of religious people, i find it stupid that they will blindly believe what someone told them.

not all Atheist are as corrupt as the Atheist who put up the billboard.

As an atheist who believes in secular government (which is what our country was actually founded on, not «Christian» values; First amendment and all that), the quotes provided from evangelicals still come off as the caricature the article denies.

About as sophisticated an argument as the atheist who promises that God can't possibly exist, because otherwise why were there no dinosaurs in the bible?

Later describing himself as an atheist who is becoming more open - minded toward faith, Oswalt questions the widely - held practice of respecting other's beliefs and proceeds to attack those who vote against gay marriage amendments because «they like a book», equating the Bible with any old literature.

Not exact matches

You'll find that many atheists, such as myself, like Francis, because he comes across as someone who cares and is trying to fix the Church.

As for Christians, there were a number who did advocate things like wanting atheists prosecuted or saying he (one poster) would run them over with his car.

To the atheists who say Christians as a whole are stupid and living in the Iron Age etc., there is no need for statements like that.

Atheists: I know many there are many people that practice religion just by fanaticism, I've seen many people in my opinion stupid (excuse the word) praying to saints hopping to solve their problems by repeating pre-made sentences over and over, but there are others different, I don't think Religion and Science need to be opposites, I believe in God, I'm Catholic and I have many reasons to believe in him, I don't think however that we should pray instead of looking for the cause and applying a solution, Atheists think they are smart because they focus on Science and technology instead of putting their faith in a God, I don't think God will solve our problems, i think he gave us the means to solve them by ourselves that's were God is, also I think that God created everything but not as a Magical thing but stablishing certain rules like Physics and Quimics etc. he's not an idiot and he knew how to make it so everything was on balance, he's the Scientist of Scientist the Mathematic of Mathematics, the Physician of Physicians, from the tiny little fact that a mosquito, an insect species needs to feed from blood from a completely different species, who created the mosquitos that way?

If you need other portions of the question posed, which you rejected earlier as an atheist trick, then tell me what the many women who are sometimes two women and somethines one woman found at the tomb, including whether the stone was in place, who they found and where, and the other details.

As a former Atheist who is now a devout Christian, I find these disturbing.

I don't see a problem with an atheist as president, we have an atheist prime minister and the government still functions superficially a mormon in the top job should be no real problem except would you really like to have a president who wears secret underwear?

A practical atheist is someone who claims to be a person who has faith but lives as though he doesn't.

Dawkins, who is widely regarded as the most respected figure in atheism, is lending his voice to this event because he says freedom for atheists is «constantly under threat from people who would like to turn this country into some sort of a theocracy.»

I see a lot of Atheists responding to the last 2k years worth of mankind's legacy of irrational fear in trying to explain who God is, using those silly fears interpreted in the Bible (although yes I agree, they stated them as fact) as justification to deny the existence of God, & not the concept itself.

I know a lot of anti-Christian atheists who are unreasonable and irrational and treat atheism as though it were a religion.

I am an atheist who feels that I should respect other peoples beliefs as long as they respect mine not to believe in the myth that they fell for.

This is one of the problems that often hinders dialogue with radical atheists (not sure you are one, but you did answer a question I posed to people who believe God is a fantasy)-- rather than offer a defense they will attack in such a way as to obfuscate the purpose of the original discussion.

Atheists deserve their reputation as they are often condescending towards those who have supernatural experiences.

Some contend that most atheists are exactly this kind of atheist (as opposed to the type who believes that deities are not possible).

Actually, it's the * atheists * who are pushing a «magic» as explanation for creation.

This is not as uncommon as people would like to believe, I have known many atheists who are now not only Christians but leaders in the faiths.

oh and Jerry, as one who works with US Soldiers here in Germany and have been in Iraq... i can personally attest to many who are and have been «atheists» in Foxholes.

I agree this adds confusion which is why many «atheists» refer to themselves as non-theists, but that does not make those who are uncertain and use the term wrong.

Since atheists and agnostics are just as prone to human frailties as the religious, I don't doubt that there * are * evil people who are athiests... but facts and numbers show that these «evil atheists» are a bunch of pikers compared to the violence and viciousness of those who promote hatred and violence in the name of their God.

Tell it to all the atheists out there who treat it as a religion.

Most of the righteous people I see are agnostics and atheists; most of the unrighteous people I see are those who claim their god is going to punish and burn people who don't have the same non-provable OPINIONS as they do.

This is almost as good as the one about the atheist on his deathbed who was allegedly heard to utter «When I didn't see you where?»

If as you say you have talked to others who claim to be Atheist the way you describe it then they are IDIOTS who also don't understand Atheism and yes at that point since they are claiming «no God» to be true, then by all means call their point of view a «religion».

I am an atheist who attended a Lutheran school and taken college - level religion courses, and finds a great deal of truth - not the same as fact - in the Bible.

Or perhaps I simply realize that many of the so called rational atheists who post on CNN are dedicated to reason only as long as it supports their positions and when it doesn't immediately switch to ad hominem attacks to try to get people to ignore the legitimate point that was made.

And we also know you are not only wrong, but dishonest because you are using a bait - and - switch on his definition of atheist; only 0.7 % of Americans actually call themselves atheists versus the 15 % who the American Religious Identification Survey describes as None / No Religion.

An Atheist who points at a dead body and says, look as far as we know this person has ceased to function, as souls don't exist.

As far as being a christian in the army, I can show you the chaos that is being caused by commanders who are christians and are forcing atheist to become christians or face the consequenceAs far as being a christian in the army, I can show you the chaos that is being caused by commanders who are christians and are forcing atheist to become christians or face the consequenceas being a christian in the army, I can show you the chaos that is being caused by commanders who are christians and are forcing atheist to become christians or face the consequences.

AvdBerg So Matthew 7:7 applies to everyone who has sought out and found answers, such as Muslims, Buddhists, Scientologists, Atheists, not to mention cult members... Let me guess, that would be a «no».

Whatever orthodox believers may think of Kenny's journey over these decades from classical theism to something vaguer, he is at least an equal - opportunity basher: For his aversion to absolutism can equally well be employed against the New Atheists, who affect an apodictic absolutism in their argumentation that makes them as impregnable to counterevidence as anything found in a creationist textbook.

From a religious perspective, the thing that really undermined Christmas was not liberals or atheists; it was the many many Christians who tried (and keep trying) to use the holiday to make as much money as possible.

Well, given that many atheists are actually more informed (as studies have confirmed) than believers, a better analogy would be that it's like asking a former professional chemist now teaching an English class about chemistry instead of asking the Chemistry teacher who never made it past chem 101 as an undergrad.

Since from what you say «not assigning gods nonexistence a «true»» you aren't rejecting the possibility of a God only it can't be proven which like you said would be Agnostic Atheist and is not the same as someone who claims there is no god and rejects the possibility of it.

but it is exasperating to be told by the religious that atheists are perhaps lesser beings as god only favours those who reject what nature tells us is the truth, I find the god myths boring and in no way inspiring.

An atheist will find that position ridiculous, since an atheist will find position A to be false (creating the false cause you note), as would someone who perhaps doesn't hold to the classical Western Christian cosmology, but it is possible for Santorum to hold to A and not - B.