Sentences with phrase «of these atheists against»

Anyway, I'd challenge a hand - full of atheists against a hand - full of Christians any day.

I find it interesting that one of the main argument of atheist against God is that they are for free will.

Despite a few historical examples of atheists against abortion (including Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton), atheists are all for it now.

Alas, I am somewhat aware of these atheists against whom, I'm afraid, no rational argument would do any good.

Not exact matches

Graham more robustly took on the cause of anti-Communism, making preaching against the atheist regime part of his sermons for years.

Yet, the atheist sees nothingness at the end of the journey which seems to go against everything we know and see.

Dawkins argues that while there appear to be plenty of individuals that would place themselves as «1» due to the strictness of religious doctrine against doubt, most atheists do not consider themselves «7» because atheism arises from a lack of evidence and evidence can always change a thinking person's mind.

No hard feelings, I would write the same thing if you would have said the same type of argument against a Muslim, Jew, Atheist, etc..

One of them is that atheists are still sufficiently discriminated against that most of us are in the closet.

Atheists are not out protesting against equal rights or basing equal rights off of a book written 2000 years ago.

But since you and I both know God is the ultimate authority and thus sets the standard, and God clearly is against abortion, and the atheists are erroneously calling very early human life nothing but «a bunch of cells,» isn't it up to us to fight for those lives?

All you do is spew out random idiocy against atheists cloaked in a self - righteous, arrogant certainty of things you can not demonstrate.

And couldn't your post have reflected your thoughts on the article itself instead of promoting more prejudice against atheists?

You're against the right of the fundie to yell fundie slogans,, but love the thought of Atheists disrupting Christian groups.

To be reasoned and reasonable might not be traits of rationalities attributed to many loving Christians who are too hellishly scared to clamour against the folds of riddled Atheists who do ever make a foolish mockery out of all Christendoms!

The problem with Observer's comment is that if God suddenly appeared before Atheists it would go against His nature of love.

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.

Do they really imagine that an atheist wants to join their religious group, hide his / her real beliefs for months or years, get themselves elected by other members then radically change the whole nature of the club, against all the other member's wishes?

In a 2000 interview with Women's Quarterly, the great critic displayed about as much indifference to the existence of God as is humanly possible; he had neither the commitment of a true believer nor the paradoxical loyalty of the atheist who kicks against the pricks:

You raise a very good point that escapes most theists and that is while they argue against atheists for not believing in their god, they forget that most of those arguments could be applied to them by somebody of another religion.

If I fought against the right of atheists to campaign for atheist candidates, then why should I expect anything less than a counterattack against my own voting rights as a Christian?

Some atheists will spend all of their time, day and night, on forums like this, arguing against the truth.

Its amazing how much effort they take to fight against something they supposedly don't believe in... I guess the moral of the story is that it may be hard to defend the truth, but to defend ignorance like the atheists in massively more difficult and takes much more effort

I see the argument against the term «atheist,» but I don't like «non-believer,» either, because I believe in lots of things — science, truth, empathy, the power of creativity, etc — just not in anyone's god (s).

I also hear of religious people seeking to discriminate against others that don't share their religion, primarily atheists, and often Muslims too.

I've been an atheist for more than 20 years, and I can count on one hand the number of times I've felt like religion was truly being foisted upon me against my will.

It sounds to me like you are fine with atheists supporting discrimination against gays, just so long as gays don't have to support the free speech or other rights of atheists.

The atheists are fighting a campaign against Fundamentalist Christians who are trying to run for President of the United States and change our laws to suit their ridiculous biblical ideas.

it's insane how you know so little of your own religion and how you go against your Christs teaching with such arrogant and disdain towards atheist and other religions your nothing but a bigot and hatemonger your world is only black and white and you can't fathom how a country can have so many different people with different believes that don't match yours and can live peacefully without your christs.

Similarly, I don't suspect many atheists of seriously wanting to enact legislation against the religious running for office.

Even worse, those very atheists who spend all of their time on forums like this and fighting against the truth (rather than being out enjoying the world in what little time they have) will ultimately die and go to hell only to then find out the truth — that they've been wrong about everything they've believed their whole life.

Atheists and theists alike share this expectation, with atheists eager to show that their moral knowledge and action are uncompromised by disbelief in God's existence, and theists eager to establish the rational credentials of their moral convictions and protect themselves against charges of Atheists and theists alike share this expectation, with atheists eager to show that their moral knowledge and action are uncompromised by disbelief in God's existence, and theists eager to establish the rational credentials of their moral convictions and protect themselves against charges of atheists eager to show that their moral knowledge and action are uncompromised by disbelief in God's existence, and theists eager to establish the rational credentials of their moral convictions and protect themselves against charges of fideism.

I find the unremitting hostility and animus of atheists like «Derp» baffling; for all the seemingly wonderful life he is enjoying, he seems compelled to get on this site and spew derision, mockery, and hatred against others.I simply do not, can not grasp that mindset; to claim to actually derive pleasure from in effect being a bully - again, that say a whole lot about his true character.So... Peace & Love to all!!

Two comments.One, the atheist / materialist claims that he / she... «Did «nt believe in free will»... O.K.Should we take that to mean some mindless, heretofore unknown force apllied those words in your behalf?Did someone put the proverbial «gun to your head «and force you to post your comments?we await you presumably forced answer with bated breath.Two.As for Mr.Gingrich, beware.Politics aside, the one question yet remains for Calista: How did you, a professed «devout «Roman Catholic, carry on a 6 - year affair with a man you knew was married?How does that square with the Biblical prohibition against committing adultery?Oh wait!I know!As a «devout «Roman Catholic you can sin with impunity; just go to your priest, say a couple of «hail Marys and Our Fathers», ask the priest to bless your sinning, and resume.Of course!I had forgetton how easily Catholics excuse their trangressions (ex opere operato, anyone).

A born again Christian that has a felony past of attempted robbery, 2nd degree murder, incest and terrorism is running for president against a known atheist that has no criminal past.

Out of all the postings on this site today, I found «Derp's «post the most fascinating and informative, as well as deeply revealing.Even after boasting of what seems to be a practically perfect live by any measure, he informs us that he takes pleasure in mocking and ridiculing those of faith who are presumably his opposite; I can only wonder if, given all his supposed accomplishments, he is smart enough to realize how deeply revealing of his true character his remarks are.As a believer, I rarely engage in arguments with my atheist friends, and like to think I wouldn't lower myself to the level of juvenile name - calling and personal attacks against whatever my atheist friends hold dear.Most of the time we simply agree to disagree; when they hold forth with misinformation or ignorance on their assumed «knowledge «of my faith, I try to gently correct them; I certainly don't allow any disagreements we have to devolve into hateful insults and name - calling.

b) What you've proposed here is not the kind of religious belief these atheists are railing against.

The difference seems to be that atheists are using science and logic and all believers have is a 2,000 - year - old book full of non-reproduceable stories that go against all the laws of physics.

As soon as religious beliefs are no longer used to discriminate against disliked groups, or to impede science and education, a lot of atheists will probably cease fighting them.

British theologian and historian Alister McGrath explains why some are atheists: «What propels people toward atheism is above all a sense of revulsion against the excesses and failures of organized religion.»

It's a way to justify what you don't yet understand, rather than acknowledging that it's just understandable at the moment, and it's acceptance amongst those who think like they do, it's the creation of a definable «evil» to fight against (satan, atheists, other religions, basically everyone except their small group of like minders... even other denominations that are nearly identical quibble).

This not only helps to explain religion's primordial, irrepressible, widespread, and seemingly inextinguishable character in the human experience, it also suggests that the skeptical Enlightenment, secular humanist, and New Atheist visions for a totally secular human world are simply not realistic — they are cutting against a very strong grain in the nature of reality's structure and so will fail to achieve their purpose.

The revelational rap against apologetic theology is that it either engages in a sellout to the «world» (the self - disclosure of God being so utterly relativized by human wisdom that Christians are unable to tell atheists anything that they don't already know), or it is an exercise in various intellectual imperialisms, such as: «We can prove the existence of God» or «If human culture really understood itself, it would find that it is striving toward that which we already have.»

If that is not deemed to be conclusive, how about the fact that the average atheist crime against humanity is 18.3 million percent worse than the very worst depredation committed by Christians, even though atheists have had less than one - twentieth the number of opportunities with which to commit them.

If an atheist politician can not get elected because of a religious angle being used against them and counter it successfully... maybe they don't need to be elected.

I don't read any atheists on here supporting the selling of 6 - year - old girls as slaves or discriminating against women and the handicapped like the Bible does..

The atheists struggle against the Son of God, Jesus Christ of Nazareth.

He points out that religion has become essentially a way of distinguishing people: Christians against non-Christians, theists against atheists, or white against coloured people.

Atheists are very much discriminated against in our society, and I hope that will change so that more of us can come out of the closet.

One of the reasons that atheists comment here is that religious beliefs unfortunately impact laws and government policy and our laws.The idiocy of religion unfortunately permeates much of our society, so the more we can fight back and speak out against religious idiocy, and the more visibly, the better.