Amusing positions:

We believe in an ancient myth. We should teach it to your children in our schools.

We believe in an ancient myth. We should denounce science and believe in the myth instead.

We believe in an ancient myth. We should reject all those who don't believe it and call them rebels.

We believe in an ancient myth. We should put it into law and not let people love each other based on gender.

We believe in an ancient myth. We should label anyone who gives a reason for not believing it to be a negative person.

We believe in an ancient myth. We should denounce everyone who doesn't believe it and call them 'non-believes' and treat them as though there is something wrong with them and give them no respect.

We believe in an ancient myth. We own it. You have no right to speak about it in a negative way. It has nothing to do with you except that if you don't believe it you will be labeled as rejecting God and being a bad person.

We believe in an ancient myth. It has nothing to do with you. You should step aside and let us put it into law.

We can proselytize our ancient myth and we will call that 'positive'.

If you counter the proselytizing efforts by giving legitimate reasons why you don't believe it, we will call that 'negativity'

There will be no more freedom of speech.

There will be no more honest opinions.

Either agree with us, or shut up.

Don't say why you don't believe it.

It's not permitted to say why you don't believe it. That's considered negativity.

Just sit back and allow us to assimilate others without any resistance from reason.

The Dark Ages shall prevail over freedom of speech and honest opinions.

We will tolerate no more observations from people who don't believe in our myth.

We sell it, if you aren't buying just move along so we can sell it to the next person in line. Don't say why you aren't buying. That's not permitted. That's considered to be negative.

We can and will control freedom of speech by claiming that your opinions are negative if they don't agree with ours!

You are not permitted to say why you don't believe "our" myth. The myth doesn't belong to you and it has nothing to do with you. You have no right to give your opinions of why you don't believe "our" myth!

You're a bad, bad, negative person. No go away!



So if someone doesn't believe in a myth they are a rebel and a fool?




The United States of America was founded by rebels.

Were they fools?

There has to be a way to speak out against anything that a person believes to be determental to humanity, even if the object of negativity happens to be a very popular religion.

Many people romanticize the religion, and they don't like to see it questioned.

However, there are many things about the religion that are not very romantic at all. Especially when taken in it's full context of being a Mediterranean religion. Just look at the hostilities that are being caused by the clash between Christianity, Judaism and Islam.

That is a very negative affect on humanity. People are being killed. Innocent women and children are being hurt and killed in the crossfire.

Speaking to the issue of whether or not the religion has merit, and asking people to consider why they continue to support it is a very postive issue.

Sure, it's being "rebellious" against the religion. But is it being rebellious against humanity?

Where do we lay down the standards of 'rebellion'?

Anytime anyone is reblling there must be something they are rebelling against. There are always two sides to the coin.

I stand for truth, and humanity.

I see these ancient religions as being deterimental to both truth, and humanity.

I stand up for what I believe to be the greater cause.

I try to show people why these religions cannot possibly be true. And I do hold that position.

It's not meant to be disrepectful. Just as the religous people see no 'disrespect' toward others when they want to teach creationism in public schools who tell people who they should or should not love.

It's a two-way street Miguel.

The religion is trying to tell people who they must live their lives.

For people to tell there religion why they don't believe it has merit is fare game in any open society that has free speech.

To repress that free speech in the claim that it is 'negative' is to return to the Dark Ages where unwelcome views are silenced in favor of proselytizing beliefs that must not be questioned!

To me, that does not respresent anything but religious oppression.

It is time to be your own authority. You know what is right and what is not right. Your conscience is your guide. Ultimately, you will pay for your acts and it makes no difference whose orders you were following.


JB

How does one obey a God that they can't even define or see or prove even exists?

As far as I'm concerned it's all or nothing.

Yes that's it dedicate yourself to me because i am a much more realistic god than any of the other fictional mythological creations that are being called religion. religion is carefully worded to entice the weak minded and troubled people so that they may be sucked into a never ending loop of slavery and never be allowed to realize the true meaning of life, it is religion that is destroying our world and creating ignorance among people. Hurricanes are a natural event occurring as a result of certain weather conditions evident on many different planets they are not the result of any diety whatsoever this has been proven and until one of you nutcases comes up with a better explanation than "its the all mighty gods work" which is the same as saying "its magic" perhaps you need to go to las vegas and learn what magic actually is.

It is through the questions and realizations of the pain and suffering of the world the lack of women's importance in the bible where I suffer from the inability to believe in Christianity.

Los acentos hispanos

And I feel this philosphy is shortsighted so now what?

I agree. Matthew 10:16 King James Bible
"Behold, I send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves: be ye therefore wise as serpents, and harmless as doves." When I first got converted I had it backwards. Cause I was wise as a dove and harmless as a serpent. And what happened was I was the wolf in the midst of sheep. A friendly Atheist helped me with it though when she told me that there no absolutes. I really miss Alex.

A creator is responsible for what it creates.

Its funny how you will immediately question the author of this book, who questions the author of the New Testament, and yet you accept the New Testament without ever having questioned who the author might be or what their qualifications are or were.

JB