Lent article had inaccuracies regarding religious holiday

Seriously? Who cares. This is like arguing about the nightly exploits of the tooth fairy. In the end, it’s all make believe.

Lulz, those of us who believe care that the right information is printed….Nobody is arguing, Tweedy is just making a point!

Lulz, those of us who believe care that the right information is printed….Nobody is arguing, Tweedy is just making a point!

lulz – I guess my beliefs about atheists being intolerant whackjobs are correct.

lolz – No we’re just intolerant of people prancing their fairy tales in public. We don’t need your mythic sky daddy to have fulfilling lives. Oh yeah, all atheists are intolerant whackjobs, guess you prove me correct that all religious zealots are intolerant nutters who seriously need to reevaluate their beliefs. Why don’t you take a look at the myth of Osiris… let me know if you see any parallels.

Now I’m not at all religious, but do you not see the hypocrisy in your comment? You do realize religious people would find your idea of there being no higher power to be a fairy tale. And, believe it or not, but you are posting it on a public forum.

I don’t care if atheists or theists are right, but how about we try and not be total zealots about it on either side. I’m pretty sure that’s way too much to ask though.

Can we all just agree that atheists and theists are equally intolerant of each other? I think the world would be a much happier place.

Can we get along?

I’m arguing there is no God. I’m of the agnostic school. What I do contend is that as far as truth is knowable, I’ll stick with the scientific method and that what I state does not fall under the culturally ascribed meaning of fairy tale. A fairy tale, as I see it being conventionally used, refers to a story that has magical and fantastic elements to it – that is to say, things that we do not observe in the modern day. The idea that there is no God isn’t a story so much one idea- which I know, if you want to get into semantics, you can say the belief in God is an idea. It is, but the text that goes along with it can be seen to be supernatural. Agnoticism/Atheism ascribe nothing to supernatural events, whereas monotheistic religions that would have everyone believe that if you don’t believe what they believe, you got a one way ticket to eternal damnation. Yes this is a public forum, my point was, however, that in my everyday life I’m constantly reminded that this is a ‘Christian’ nation and cannot escape their doctrines and practices.

“I’m not arguing there is no God.”

Yeah, the rest of that doesn’t make sense with what I wrote

that’s ok, atheists rarely do make sense

Ya, religion makes a LOT more sense, right?

The moment you realize that creation is a fallacy, the rest falls apart accordingly.

“lulz – I guess my beliefs about atheists being intolerant whackjobs are correct.”

I believe you are referring to the intolerance of grown adults publicizing their fairy tale beliefs. Whackjobs? Well I’m assuming that “whackjob” is the same thing as a person that is “nuts”. A person that is nuts is someone who is “Exhibiting unsoundness or disorded of mind; not sane; mad; deranged in mind; delirious; distracted,” according to dictionary.com. I would say that believing that we are all born with sin because a talking snaked told someone to eat and apple would qualify as delirious. If I came to you and said that I just spent this past weekend in the belly of a whale (big fish), would you consider me to be delusional?

Hypocrisy at its finest. :)