Quotes of the day

I read the clips, watched some of the videos, and came away repulsed.. not by the notion some do not believe, but that they wallow in their need to inflict the emptiness of their lack of faith in God, on virtually everyone. I’m not going around and dragging people to church, or telling them what they must believe,.. No one needs to worry about me doing that. But often the atheist, like Dawkins, is a crank, an in your face cynical tyrant who can’t go a day without evangelizing his own beliefs and cramming them down your throat, the complete flip side of the coin..

if a street corner screamer stands there telling you “repent or burn”.. is he any more obnoxious than his opposite across the street who rants “you are an idiot, if you don’t reject God like me”?

Both are offensive, yet atheists do it just as often from the TV or from the university podium.

I do believe in God, for very personal reasons.

I will not argue semantics, or scriptures with anyone, I’m not a scholar or read layman, I’m a believer in Christ, with only the limited education I had in my youth.. though I’m now looking into joining a local congregation. I was an agnostic for a decade or two,, and came back to the faith in Christ, because as I matured, as I found the woman who completes me, the children we share together.. I found my way home.

Why that kind of personal belief so offends Dawkins I have no idea, except he displays a typical totalitarian mind set, MY way, is the ONLY way,.. and if you will not turn your life to my way of living it, I’ll do my best to make your life a Hell on earth..

“Then Dawkins got to the part where he calls on the crowd not only to challenge religious people but to ‘ridicule and show contempt’ for their doctrines and sacraments, including the Eucharist, which Catholics believe becomes the body of Christ during Mass.

How can a person who espouses “reason” as his watch word, turn around and himself engage in unreasonable thought policing?

Do all atheists believe this?.. or just this one evil old bastard with a burning need to interfere in our lives?

mark81150 on March 26, 2012 at 7:34 AM

In one of the video’s, in a screaming match, the atheist proclaimed, “I do not need morals, I have ethics”

eth·i·cal
   [eth-i-kuhl] Show IPA
adjective
1.
pertaining to or dealing with morals or the principles of morality; pertaining to right and wrong in conduct.
2.
being in accordance with the rules or standards for right conduct or practice, especially the standards of a profession: It was not considered ethical for physicians to advertise.

right,….

mor·al
   [mawr-uhl, mor-] Show IPA
adjective
1.
of, pertaining to, or concerned with the principles or rules of right conduct or the distinction between right and wrong; ethical: moral attitudes.
2.
expressing or conveying truths or counsel as to right conduct, as a speaker or a literary work; moralizing: a moral novel.
3.
founded on the fundamental principles of right conduct rather than on legalities, enactment, or custom: moral obligations.
4.
capable of conforming to the rules of right conduct: a moral being.
5.
conforming to the rules of right conduct ( opposed to immoral): a moral man.

so the guy is a moron..

But the main argument made in defense of a moral/ethical atheist is that they simply know innately the difference between right and wrong without the interference of religion.. to me that’s absurd on it’s face.. no human being is born moral, they are born innocent, a huge difference.

Any parent can tell you, that left to their own, infants to toddlers do not instinctively share their toys, or their snacks, the opposite is true, you must teach and enforce that rule… children left untaught are quite literally going to end up as the cast of Lord of the Flies.. Morality is a taught/learned behavior.. and if it isn’t religious based, how could it come to be?.. did some small child SUDDENLY get struck down with a serious case of ethics?…

It’s the height of blind arrogance for an atheist to claim, I’m an ethical person, because I just am… your God didn’t make me that way.. Not directly no.. however, where did the biblical injunction from theft and murder split off and become purely secular? Every faith has those laws.. yet atheists deny they have religious roots in their personal morality, I just don’t see how that’s possible.. every culture has those rules, and all of them come from a religious past, even if they are secular now.

An atheist can be a moral person, but they owe that to the culture and faith which spawned them. Not to a purely rational choice of their own.. that’s just silly thinking, to assume they are moral because they just are..

mark81150 on March 26, 2012 at 8:04 AM