Why atheists don't just shut up

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Added July 24, 2011: Important read: http://www.brucegourley.com/christiannation/theocracy.htm

This link: http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/070507F.shtml is to an article about a conference of Southern Baptist zealots who want to make the United States into a Christian Taliban, a theocratic state in which all independent thought will be squelched. The next step, of course, would be to punish dissent to their "Christian" ideals.

The conference was sponsored by American Vision, what this article calls "a radical ministry that toils away to 'help Christians build a truly Biblical worldview,'" Some 800 people attended, representing a number of other groups with similar goals

One of their speakers, Gary North, called for a Taliban-like rule. This is his view of a Christian America:

North has called for the death penalty . . . for youngsters who curse their parents, gays and others who violate his interpretation of biblical law. He has argued that stoning is the preferred means of capital punishment, noting that it is a communal activity and "the implements of execution are available to everyone at virtually no cost."

This conference is really scary. As an atheist, I hear all the time, "Why do you atheists think you have to promote atheism? Why don't you just keep it to yourself?" This conference represents the reason that we go on YouTube and elsewhere to state our views and try to reach the fence-sitters. We know the thoroughly convinced Christians, Muslims and other religionists will not heed anything we say. But there are many who have been disappointed by what they have been taught, and some of them may come to see that the world needs a peaceful secular vision, not a warlike religious one.

Muslims claim that theirs is a religion of peace, while, in the name of Allah, some of them sever the heads of anyone who disagrees with them, and threaten mass violence over a cartoon. The ones whjo insist they are peaceful seem only rarely to denounce the actions of these killers. Christians claim to represent the "Prince of Peace," yet they wage war on non-Christians in distant lands and promise war on non-Christians in their own.

The only hope for peace in the world is secularism/humanism. I am utterly convinced of that. Atheists and other secular humanists do not threaten anyone. We simply try to fight fanaticism with reason. I fear that we will lose. The religionists are experts at propaganda. They do not hesitate to lie, especially when characterizing the ideas of their dissenters. They play to emotion and not reason. They would (and eventually will, I fear) kill anyone who disagrees with them in any particular.
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After about two years and over 10,000 comments, I have decided hereafter to remove the comments of people who have demonstrated that they didn't watch the video, and those of people who have come by simply to sling vitriol. Comments with reasonable arguments, positive or negative, will remain.

http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/religious-rights-merger-apostolic-domin...

The above link demonstrates that dominionism is alive and well - and growing. These people are dangerous to freedom.

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[adeebshady]

Believers were Created By God, And Atheists are the Children of Monkeys.

[Largo64]

@adeebshady Somebody marked your post above as spam. I unmarked it. It isn't spam. It's just stupid.

[daberko120ch]

@esraretin It's not pessimistic... I will be dying in the ground which will create nutrients for life for FUTURE GENERATIONS to take in the nutrients I released into the ground years ago for them. I find that optimistic for our future.

[Sora657]

@Largo64 Christains*

[Sora657]

@Largo64 Same reason as christain wont shut up is why atheists won't yall are both stubborn but atheists unlike so called "christains" and unlike 'real" christains actually read the bible and use it as a weapon as they/we(dissidents of christainity and other abrahamic religions) understand knowledge is power.

[Bradley2510]

@adeebshady Are you stupid? you sound exactly like a KKK OR MDL member.

Theres no proof god is real or fake, Maybe you was born from a monkey??

[esraretin]

atheism is pesimism about afterlife

[Thechristiancullen]

@koljin00529 For reptiles to evolve into mammals at least some of these transformations must have happened: • Scales had to have mutated into hair. • Breasts had to have evolved from nothing. • Externally laid eggs had to evolve into soft-shelled eggs that were nourished by an umbilical cord and placenta in a womb

[Thechristiancullen]

@Schutzstafell Why are you so angry mate?

Most scientists don't really know how life came to be. Even Stanley Miller, whose experiments are cited in most biology text books,later recanted and said that the origin of life is still unknown. The idea that dead material can come to life all by itself is not consistent with scientific observation. Only atheists seem to know what happened.

[MrGoatsontrial]

I think that all the money that's been poured into the churches, the preacher's and their SUV's and Harley's (I've seen one who brought his Harley onstage, like a rockstar), would've been better spent by true philanthropists helping starvation, instead of the self centered fear of burning in an eternal fire.

[SgtPepper271294]

@hmcsniper oh dude I am an atheist, and I thought, he is one, too. May i did not listen to carefully but to make that clear, I DO NOT BELIEVE IN GOD, don´t worry man I m sorry for the confusion

[amanounmei]

I fear same thing's happening in my country, Poland. When half our government crashed in a plane in 2010, what did people do? Shove a giant cross in front of the presidential palace without permission, stand by it 14 hours a day and call everyone else selfish Jews or seeds of Satan when told to leave. They called this country Christian when in fact we have separation of church and state. They were hellishly aggressive. But they're the persecuted ones. It sickens me.