First of all, I just want to let the reader know that this article was not written by me. It was written by a man named Seth Andrews, who is the head of a on-line atheist movement called; "The Thinking Atheist", and has brilliantly described how to respond to the wailing and caterwauling Christians who cry out; "Can't you people just leave us alone?"
Without further delay; the ass-whipping that so many Christians deserve!
The protests come every day from the religious, and they go something like this:
* "Why spend your time disproving God?"
* "Why not just let people believe what they want to believe?"
* "Why can't you leave religion alone?"
As one YouTube commenter said recently, "No one can explain to me why it is so important to convince theists to abandon their beliefs."
The answer is simple. Pages like this one exist because religion exists.
Religion permeates our culture, shows up on our doorsteps with literature, scriptures and threats of eternal damnation, influences our science books, contaminates our political systems, indoctrinates our children and postulates that its doctrine must be followed, lest we be destroyed in body, in soul, or both.
Non-believers are simply responding to the avalanche of religious messages that bears down upon us daily.
Religion gets carte blanche to be as vocal as it wants, to knock on our doors and accost us in our homes, in our places of work, in our personal and professional lives. Believers are charged with a life mission to preach, teach, disciple, shout it from the mountaintops and to "go ye into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature." Religion...is everywhere.
Ask yourself. When's the last time an atheist rang your doorbell with the Good News of Humanism? How often do you find Richard Dawkins books in the dresser drawers of your hotel rooms? When was the last atheist temple erected in your neighborhood? Have you ever attended an atheist revival? Has atheism demanded 10% of your household income? How many dedicated atheist television channels come through your satellite dish? How many atheist verses were you instructed to memorize as a child? When's the last time someone thanked a FARMER (or even the cook) at the dinner table instead of God?
On a more radical front, what's the name of the last atheist who sawed the head off of an "infidel?" Or sentenced a shrouded woman to death for displeasing an oppressive husband? Or strapped explosives to his belt in order to kill hundreds in a public square? Or publicly hung a gay person for his lifestyle?
It's everywhere. Religion is a pounding drum that has gone mostly unanswered for a long, long time. And religion is not satisfied with merely existing quietly in the homes and hearts of the faithful. Its very nature compels the believer to proselytize, preach, promote, convince, convert and prevail. If you play on the team of the religious, your game plan is to stay, always, on offense.
Throughout our history, those who raise a simple hand of protest against these advances have been portrayed as the real problem. Religion has attempted to marginalize and defeat legitimate questions and concerns by indignantly portraying any resistors as misguided, immoral, rudderless, angry, miserable, lost and alone.
And when skepticism challenges wildly improbable (or impossible) stories found in the bible, the Qur'an and other holy books, the religious wail, "Why can't you just leave us alone?"
The irony is thick.
And religion impedes curiosity and inhibits learning, as the much-maligned Creation Museum proves. It stymies critical thinking. It stretches us to believe the unbelievable. And it poisons the foundational teachings we are using to train up the generations of tomorrow.
Pages like mine exist as a response... a counter-argument to ensure that the cacophony of superstition does not go unchallenged. And if your belief system is so undeniable, so factual, so provable, so real and so true, certainly it can withstand the opposing viewpoints presented here and elsewhere. Certainly, it can survive the acid tests.
Just remember. Religion began the argument. It amplifies itself before the world. And it threatens all mankind with punishment upon its rejection.
We are atheists. We are moral. We are reasonable. We are thoughtful, intelligent, compassionate, happy, fulfilled and well-informed.
And as long as religion insists on fixing human beings who are not broken, we will respond with the evidence that we are not the problem.
-Seth
Monday, September 10, 2012
Slavery... It's Great! Biblical Scripture
I seen these on a popular atheist website called Atheist Nexus. The blog address is: http://www.atheistnexus.org/forum/topics/demoralizing-bible-quotes-that-most-christians-are-surprised-to. I felt that these are very influential and persuasive points to be made to propbably 90% of the Christian insurgents. When revealing these elusive and very stinging biblical scriptures to the believer, be prepared for very evasive conversation, escaleted anger and either a comment about you just have to have faith or a self-pity cry of why can't you just leave christians alone.
Seth Andrews of The Thinking Atheist web-site; http://www.thethinkingatheist.com/, talks about the Christian soldiers playing the victim cards. Podcast dated 9/8/2012, titled "Friday Night Free-For-All." Seth, gives good reasons why atheist should not be silent or stop fighting the religious propoganda being broadcast to every crevice of our society!
Anyway, here we go with the so-called, "Sacred Bilblical Scriptures."
Ephesians 6:5-8
5 Slaves, obey your earthly masters with respect and fear, and with sincerity of heart, just as you would obey Christ.
So, with this scripture God promotes slavery and demands respect and fear from these slaves. And, these slaves should obey their masters as they would Christ; and with sincerity. Most Christians like to believe that they are the main reason slavery was abolished! With that in mind; wouldn't any Christian who does not support slavery today, be going against God's wishes?
And, if you are not so fortunate to be a master and are a slave. If you don't respect, fear and obey with a sincere heart your owner; you too are defying God's wishes!
This scripture violates the morals and values of human rights at a level so evil and disgraceful; that any human being should be completely distraught and conscience-stricken with shame!
6 Obey them not only to win their favor when their eye is on you, but as slaves of Christ, doing the will of God from your heart.
Here you are not only a slave to your master but, also to Christ. Doing God's will from your heart! God's will! This is his desire. God is not happy with enslaving people but, wants you to be obedient and happy about it.
So, for some of his children that are created in his image; he wants to treat you like a... SLAVE! Lots of love from your daddy! Wants to value your life as a submissive, despicable dog. And, the master will be considered a good Christian for owning you and most likely your family. And, can enter the kingdom of heaven. Oh, yeah! And, you can to if you do as your told and love your master and God for what they are doing to you as a slave! Wow! That really sounds justifiable.
7 Serve wholeheartedly, as if you were serving the Lord, not people,
This scripture is nothing more than to re-illustrate and drive home how much you should love your masters and how important it is to the Lord! He must have really meant it then!
8 because you know that the Lord will reward each one for whatever good they do, whether they are slave or free.
There you go! There it is folks. The promise that you will be rewarded for owning slaves or being a slave. Oh! I get it now. So, you can be a slave to your master in heaven too! You wouldn't expect your owner to strap his own sandals on would you?
The idea of owning another person was approved by God and, it was demanded that the slaves be up beat about it. Thank your master for allowing you to serve and slave for him! And, be sincere and love your master as if he was God.
To the Christians, you love, cherish and believe in a God who promotes and prefers this of his followers. You Christians fight, kill, torture, mame, rape and discriminate against every human being on earth. Past, present and future! Why? For what? Nothing! You can't prove there is a heaven or a hell. You can't prove that there is a "afterlife!" Is it out of fear? Self-preservation?
Deep down that is exactly why you believe in a invisible sky-daddy. Your afraid of death and of going to a lake of fire for all eternity! You will commit all of these atrocities mentioned in this book; in hopes of going to a heaven. To please your God, who promotes these types of things. Don't deny it or stand there and lie! Don't try and explain these horrific crimes against humanity away! Own up to it. Your God is a mad, evil, sadistic and horrible excuse for anything!
So...remember the next time you are talking with a stranger or co-worker and you let them know you are a Christian. Let them also know, what you represent and what your God and you believe is righteous, ethical, saintly and godlike! Hmmm!
I bet you wont!
Seth Andrews of The Thinking Atheist web-site; http://www.thethinkingatheist.com/, talks about the Christian soldiers playing the victim cards. Podcast dated 9/8/2012, titled "Friday Night Free-For-All." Seth, gives good reasons why atheist should not be silent or stop fighting the religious propoganda being broadcast to every crevice of our society!
Anyway, here we go with the so-called, "Sacred Bilblical Scriptures."
Ephesians 6:5-8
5 Slaves, obey your earthly masters with respect and fear, and with sincerity of heart, just as you would obey Christ.
So, with this scripture God promotes slavery and demands respect and fear from these slaves. And, these slaves should obey their masters as they would Christ; and with sincerity. Most Christians like to believe that they are the main reason slavery was abolished! With that in mind; wouldn't any Christian who does not support slavery today, be going against God's wishes?
And, if you are not so fortunate to be a master and are a slave. If you don't respect, fear and obey with a sincere heart your owner; you too are defying God's wishes!
This scripture violates the morals and values of human rights at a level so evil and disgraceful; that any human being should be completely distraught and conscience-stricken with shame!
6 Obey them not only to win their favor when their eye is on you, but as slaves of Christ, doing the will of God from your heart.
Here you are not only a slave to your master but, also to Christ. Doing God's will from your heart! God's will! This is his desire. God is not happy with enslaving people but, wants you to be obedient and happy about it.
So, for some of his children that are created in his image; he wants to treat you like a... SLAVE! Lots of love from your daddy! Wants to value your life as a submissive, despicable dog. And, the master will be considered a good Christian for owning you and most likely your family. And, can enter the kingdom of heaven. Oh, yeah! And, you can to if you do as your told and love your master and God for what they are doing to you as a slave! Wow! That really sounds justifiable.
7 Serve wholeheartedly, as if you were serving the Lord, not people,
This scripture is nothing more than to re-illustrate and drive home how much you should love your masters and how important it is to the Lord! He must have really meant it then!
8 because you know that the Lord will reward each one for whatever good they do, whether they are slave or free.
There you go! There it is folks. The promise that you will be rewarded for owning slaves or being a slave. Oh! I get it now. So, you can be a slave to your master in heaven too! You wouldn't expect your owner to strap his own sandals on would you?
The idea of owning another person was approved by God and, it was demanded that the slaves be up beat about it. Thank your master for allowing you to serve and slave for him! And, be sincere and love your master as if he was God.
To the Christians, you love, cherish and believe in a God who promotes and prefers this of his followers. You Christians fight, kill, torture, mame, rape and discriminate against every human being on earth. Past, present and future! Why? For what? Nothing! You can't prove there is a heaven or a hell. You can't prove that there is a "afterlife!" Is it out of fear? Self-preservation?
Deep down that is exactly why you believe in a invisible sky-daddy. Your afraid of death and of going to a lake of fire for all eternity! You will commit all of these atrocities mentioned in this book; in hopes of going to a heaven. To please your God, who promotes these types of things. Don't deny it or stand there and lie! Don't try and explain these horrific crimes against humanity away! Own up to it. Your God is a mad, evil, sadistic and horrible excuse for anything!
So...remember the next time you are talking with a stranger or co-worker and you let them know you are a Christian. Let them also know, what you represent and what your God and you believe is righteous, ethical, saintly and godlike! Hmmm!
I bet you wont!
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