Sentences with phrase «other atheist states»
You adamantly refuse to recognise the historical fact that «scientific atheism» was both a foundational philosophical position and an actual policy of the Soviet Union and other atheist states from the time of Lenin on, and responsible for massive persecution, torture, suffering, humiliation and death far in excess of the numbers of the «victims» of Christianity - So now the history that isn't in your book is factual?
http://religion.blogs.cnn.com/ Not exact matches
What I think Jerry was hoping for was that the Atheists here stop reacting in a reactionary sort of way and start stating their position on their own two feet; in other words, come up with proof of their claim «there is no god».
You act like other atheist act, and you assume a superior state of enlightenment as other atheist do.
I'm getting the feeling that bored, judgemental atheists troll this section like no other just so they can state how right they are in their beliefs.
But as others who knew Nat have stated, I never fully believed the «atheist» part of his iconoclastic self - description.
Communist atheists do not represent «atheism» but I will stipulate that Marxists were atheists and they certainly did target and repress religious groups amongst other «enemies of the state».
As an atheist, I am not interested in forcing anything on anyone, other than being «fundamentalist» about separation of church and state.
On the other hand, it can be fairly stated that most agnostics are really atheists that don't want to bother arguing with annoying religionists.
It's too bad we forget about persecuting our Muslim brothers and sisters in the United States who have received religious persecution as individuals, as a culture, and religiously from Christians and Atheists, and I am sure others as well.
Putting up a paid for billboard stating an atheist viewpoint is «pushing your belief on other people» Yet putting a piece of debris in the form of a tool of execution that has been used by a religion for centuries on display on government owned land using government money is somehow «not»?
As others have stated, you don't just wake up one day and say, «I'm now an atheist» when you've been a devout believer in the supernatural for so long.
Perhaps if you actually stated something other than «durr that them there atheists can't prove me wrong huhuhuhu», then we could address it.
Im an atheist and I do nt know 1 other atheist that states that there is absolutely no god, just that they reject all of the proposed gods out there.
James Madison and other founders certainly thought not, and many state constitutions originally excluded atheists from public office.
@Athy: As I stated above, I am writing about atheists who are pushing their «non-belief» on others.
If you think it is silly for me to ask you to prove that other versions of this story do not exist, then you'll understand why we think it's funny for a religiously - minded person to keep stating that it is up to us Atheists to prove that your celestial butterfly does not exist.
On the other hand stating that the Bible is the only source of understanding God is a twisted faith in its own right, whether professed by non-atheist or atheist.
PDX — It doesn't take a Genius to realize from my statements that i have read things other than the Bible you moron i have spent many hours reading and listening to scientists about their theories on the big bang, i have listened to ideas from the most revered scientists including Hawking and others, and they all admit that there are holes in their theories, that nothing fully explains their big bang theory, the physics doesn't add up let alone the concept, there are plenty of scientists hard at work trying to make the numbers fit and the theory hold weight but if you ask any of them they can not give you the answers and the reason being... there are none, the theory doesn't work, If by the observable laws of Physics, Matter in this Universe can not be created or destroyed, you can only change its state, i.e. solid to liquid, to gas... to energy... There is no explanation for how an entire reality full of Matter can be created out of nothing... Scientists know this... idiots that are atheists and simply would rather NOT believe that their lives and actions they take within their lifespan are being witnessed by an Omnipotent God do not WANT to believe... but Your belief in God does not change whether or not he exists you will be judged.
that their religion is flawed somehow... and when questioned why they try to push their ideas on everybody else, they get frustrated and say that it's the Religious ones that push their ideas on people... NOT THEM... That's funny because i have about 1000 comments on this thread that state the opposite... Atheist's i see on this post appear to fall into that category of people that need to try and convince others to believe what they do because they're not sure in their own beliefs... They know that believing in the big bang theory or other similar theories takes as much faith as any religion has to offer... and when pinned down to the facts that By the laws of physics... the big bang couldn't happen....
But I can also say I know more Christians who favor strict separation of church and state than I know other atheists.
I'm an atheist, and been a stay at home dad, and live in a super liberal state, and all this other so called «unmanly» bullshit, and I totally get what he's saying.
Don Blankenship, CEO of Massey Energy (NYSE: MEE) the fourth largest coal producer in the United States thinks Gore, Pelosi, Reid and environmentalists are crazy, atheist, communist Greeniacs who lie about climate change and other environmental issues.
Barnard and other atheist groups have stated that more litigation is likely to follow if the UHPA simply uses these disclaimers instead of some other symbol that is «inclusive of all Utahns.»