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‘Clusterf**k’ & ‘Mass Cult’: See the Epic Compilation of Atheist Interviews from the Reason Rally

Atheists Talk Christianity, Obama & Religion at Reason Rally | The Blaze CompilationDo you really want to know what atheists think about Christianity in America? How about President Obama’s handling of faith issues? In our new video compilation, “This Is What an Atheist Looks Like!,” we’ll show you, in non-believers’ own words, what they think about the concept of God, Christianity, their role in the political system and plenty more.

As we’ve reported, over the weekend thousands of non-theists graced Washington, D.C. with a fierce and boisterous presence. The Blaze was on hand to bring you the inside scoop. Along the way, we met anti-religious persons of all stripes at a secular lobbying training event and during the Reason Rally.

Atheists Talk Christianity, Obama & Religion at Reason Rally | The Blaze CompilationFrom insanely inappropriate language about faith and religion to respectful disagreement, the “freethinkers” we encountered were diverse in terms of tactics and tone. Their main points of agreement with one another? There’s no God, no afterlife and absolutely no room for belief in the “supernatural.”

We decided to ask numerous leaders in the atheist movement and Reason Rally attendees four key questions:

  • What brings you to Reason Rally?
  • If you could deliver any message to Christians in America, what would it be?
  • If you could condense Christianity into one or two words, what would they be?
  • How has President Barack Obama handled the secular community in America?

From insightful to down-right-bizarre, the atheistic responses we gathered were intriguing to say the least. One woman said, ”Get your religion out of my girl panties.” Another claimed that Christianity can best be framed as “ignorant.” James Randi, a well-known magician and one of the event speakers, told The Blaze that Christians should “grow up” and that any religious person is essentially living in the “14th century.”

(Related: ‘Bring Your Kids!’: Atheist Performer Drops 75+ F-Bombs On Stage at ‘Reason Rally’ (WARNING: EXPLICIT VIDEO))

Here are a few of the other labels given to Christianity: “Irrational,“ ”false dogma,“ ”mass cult,“ ”anti-intellectualism,“ ”popular,“ ”clusterf**k,“ ”authoritarian,“ ”paternalistic“ and ”overwhelmingly fundamentalist.”

Watch the hilarity in “This Is What an Atheist Looks Like!,” below:

The Blaze’s Benny Johnson contributed to this report.

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  • venerablebede
    Posted on March 26, 2012 at 12:51pm

    ‘here’s no God, no afterlife and absolutely no room for belief in the “supernatural.”’

    So these guys stay in on Halloween?

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    • Cesium
      Posted on March 26, 2012 at 5:40pm

      Wow, is this video selective and highly edited!!!

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    • colt1860
      Posted on March 26, 2012 at 6:44pm

      @Cesium Compared to the Marxist MSM, that’s nothing. You must not watch the New Left Wing Media much, or maybe, you watch too much of it?

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    • Bad_Ashe
      Posted on March 26, 2012 at 7:27pm

      @CESIUM – You’ve clearly never been to a large atheist gathering a la The Amazing Meeting, have you? This is actually pretty par for the course.

      Given my experience, I would say that The Blaze might have even went out of its way to include those who seemed “normal” by comparison. Yes The Blaze clearly gave them enough rope to hang themselves with, and then played this for comedy, but anyone with experience at atheist gatherings wouldn’t consider this an inaccurate sample.

      In the spirit of camaraderie, I’d like to share an “atheist drinking game” with everyone, a game which applies to conventions like this one. Take a drink every time you:

      - See a beard/ponytail combo.

      - See a pair of helplessly out of style glasses.

      - See someone whose appearance is not unlike that of a troll.

      - Hear Christians being called some sort of pejorative.

      - See some sort of juvenile, sophomoric, and unfunny mockery of religious iconography or personages.

      - See someone openly gay or lesbian who denies that their sexual identity has anything to do with their atheism.

      - Hear the words “reason”, “cult”, “science”, “goat herders”, “sky daddy”, “sky bully”, “Dawkins”, “spaghetti monster”, or the phrase “I‘m looking to move out of mom’s basement”.

      You’ll be sloshed in no time. Cheers!

      -

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    • Jim S
      Posted on March 26, 2012 at 7:57pm

      …they will NEVER get their own planet…

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    • rrick
      Posted on March 26, 2012 at 8:54pm

      So people who believe in magic underwear, God-inspired Joseph Smith, transubstantiation, talking snakes, water into wine, resurrection, virgin births are the “normal” people? These are incredibly ridiculous beliefs, without a shred of evidence, which millions of Americans believe in. If this is not group-think and idiocy, I am not sure what an example would be.

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    • colt1860
      Posted on March 26, 2012 at 10:12pm

      @rrick Well, IF there was an all power God, why wouldn’t he be able to such things, especially if he’s the one that created everything. But I guess thinking we came from apes, or their cousins and whatnot, is normal? There is not one shred of evidence in today’s world proving that evolution is in motion right now. Last time I checked, humans still can’t naturally fly, nor are they growing an extra set of ears.

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    • Brooke Lorren
      Posted on March 27, 2012 at 12:37am

      Well, they will get their own planet once God comes back and takes all the Christians. They’ll have to share it with the Islamists though.

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    • NC1
      Posted on March 27, 2012 at 10:12am

      These folks need to be taught the entire book of Proverbs. Lots of teaching in there about mockery, foolishness, sloth, pride, foul-mouths, etc. etc. I was trying to find a specific verse but found the whole book applies.

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    • jlromero
      Posted on March 28, 2012 at 9:16pm

      WOW!!!! These people are sure ugly

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    • John Kieffer
      Posted on March 29, 2012 at 6:26pm

      Halloween characters who come to my door exist; the biblical god, demon and jesus characters don’t.

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    • NotHereToJudge
      Posted on March 31, 2012 at 11:48pm

      Then explain what is revealed in this video!
      http://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=johnathan+cahn+the+harbinger&view=detail&mid=51C0991652E4C29F8E3551C0991652E4C29F8E35&first=0&qpvt=johnathan+cahn+the+harbinger

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  • MrButcher
    Posted on March 26, 2012 at 12:50pm

    Believe it or not, folks, there are many non-believers who are politically conservative and/or libertarian. It was interesting to see a Blazer in the montage.

    Also, it helps to be an atheist when you argue with a liberal over abortion or any other of the hot-button cultural issues. Liberals usually expect conservatives to make a theological argument against the murder of the unborn. When that doesn’t occur and you stick strictly to the human-rights aspect of the debate, you have them against the ropes.

    I know this website gets a lot of its “hits” from the religious crowd and their fear of being persecuted by some vast left-wing cabal that is apparent in every counter-argument contrary to theirs especially in the realm of meta-physical super-naturalism but such is not always the case.

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    • goahead.makemyday
      Posted on March 26, 2012 at 4:20pm

      I’m Christian but I leave theology and debate science with atheists or liberals. That’s the only way to have a productive debate. There are a few of us like this, mostly just us 20+ that refused to be brainwashed by our professors.

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    • Bad_Ashe
      Posted on March 26, 2012 at 7:07pm

      @MRBUTCHER – While I appreciate your civility, that‘s a completely erroneous statement you’ve made regarding atheism assisting in a pro-life argument. Opposing abortion is only a religious argument if the one making the argument allows it to become so. I am religious, but can (and do) effectively argue against abortion without bringing religion into it. Don’t conflate sloppy argumentation and religiosity.

      Cheers!

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    • JJStryder
      Posted on March 27, 2012 at 10:27am

      The only religion that I see that believes in killing non-believers is the Muslims. Not much talk about the intolerance of Muslims at this rally. Why is that? That is a rhetorical question, but if you need an answer it is cowardace. If Christians were so intollerant, would we be putting up with so much crap from atheists,Hollywood, music, and the President? I never hear a Christian rant about Atheists. We feel sorry for people who believe in the creation but not a creator. Like the hammer built the house but we ignore the carpenter. So who is intollerant again? And no, we don’t see a king on a throne. Spirit.

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    • yohannbiimu
      Posted on March 27, 2012 at 11:06am

      If one is a true atheist, it would seem to me that someone else‘s belief system wouldn’t bother them as much as it happens with people like this. If one were truly “atheist,” I would think that their unbelief would make one neutral about the subject of the Almighty, rather than rabidly hateful about it. I’m sure there are atheists out there who ARE sincerely atheists, but the ones on display here are ANTI-theists. Karl Marx was an ant-theist. He rarely denied the existence of God, but rather put his whole energy into fighting Him, and destroying His creation. That is what these people are about.

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    • MemphisViking
      Posted on March 29, 2012 at 10:41am

      The problem with leaving God out of an argument against abortion is that without an absolute standard, morals are all subjective, therefore there is no moral argument against abortion. Also, leaving the Bible out of a debate with a liberal because they don’t believe in it is silly. They don’t believe in the Constitution either, but we don’t leave that out of a debate.

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  • SpankDaMonkey
    Posted on March 26, 2012 at 12:50pm

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    I‘d like to see the look on their faces when they find out he’s real……………..

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    • Michael61
      Posted on March 26, 2012 at 12:56pm

      Well, I am an atheist and kinda Anarchist + Libertarian = Minarchist.

      However, I don’t bother religious people about their god. Unlike many atheists, I don‘t demand that they don’t celebrate Christmas, they don’t wear crosses, they don’t pray in public, they don’t have Bible studies in school, etc.

      Freedom OF religion, not freedom FROM religion.

      Btw, atheism in the Soviet Union and China was kinda religion. They mummified Vladimir Lenin (and later Josef Stalin), they worshipped a little red book, they built huge church-like buildings and congregated there every week to listen for sermons and to worship communism.

      Looks like the quantum-mechanical Universe doesn’t permit an empty spot for religion. If you remove a religion like Christianity, the spot will be filled with some quasi-religion like communism, fascism, environmentalism, etc.

      Of course Christian morals (or more politically correct, Judeo-Christian morals) are implicit in the American society. Well, if those moral principles make people work hard and take care of their families, I am all for it.

      What is your beef with their god? If it works, let it be.

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    • jcldwl
      Posted on March 26, 2012 at 12:57pm

      And they will find that out. I will pray some if not all of them see the light before it is too late.

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    • TomFerrari
      Posted on March 26, 2012 at 1:06pm

      For one thing, your ego is way too big, lady. I doubt anybody wants in your “girl panties!”

      “There’s no God, no afterlife and absolutely no room for belief in the ‘supernatural.’ ”
      Sounds like FASCISM and anti-free-speech to me, and that’s before we even discuss religion, faith, and the FIRST Amendment.

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    • Baddoggy
      Posted on March 26, 2012 at 1:07pm

      I wish just one time God would allow one of them escape from hell. still on fire and screaming that hell is real…National Television would be nice. Maybe during Dancing with the Stars…

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    • Walkabout
      Posted on March 26, 2012 at 1:13pm

      Michael61

      “they built huge church-like buildings and congregated there every week to listen for sermons and to worship communism.”

      Now that is interesting. I knew that they built building to hold state sanctioned marriages, but they went once a week to listen to sermons?

      I’ll try to look it up, a link would be very much appreciated.

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    • TH30PH1LUS
      Posted on March 26, 2012 at 1:13pm

      @ SpankDaMonkey

      You will see it. The tragic horror of it. We will ALL see it. Everyone will go to heaven…. but very few will be allowed to stay there.

      “Then I saw a great white throne and him who was seated on it. The earth and the heavens fled from his presence, and there was no place for them. And I saw the dead, great and small, standing before the throne, and books were opened. Another book was opened, which is the book of life. The dead were judged according to what they had done as recorded in the books. The sea gave up the dead that were in it, and death and Hades gave up the dead that were in them, and each person was judged according to what they had done. Then death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire. The lake of fire is the second death. Anyone whose name was not found written in the book of life was thrown into the lake of fire.” Revelation 20:11-15

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    • raybaker35
      Posted on March 26, 2012 at 1:15pm

      Our bodies our made of stardust. The universe is what created all life. I am 90% atheist 10% agnostic because i have no clue who or what created the big bang and our life creating universe.
      I thought it was a stretch to try to make those folks look foolish, they seem cogent, and far more informed then lets say the morons of ows.
      If i were king, the separation of church and state would be 100% and all religious groups would be treated as any business. No tax breaks, and they must follow all rules that any other business is forced to comply with.
      Have your churches and your beliefs what ever they may be. And let them stand or fall by the free market.
      I respect every Americans ability to believe what they wish, as long as it does not tread on me.

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    • CptStubbing
      Posted on March 26, 2012 at 1:23pm

      I think it’s funny how pretty much every word they used to describe Christianity, is a word we use to describe Atheism. They are very irrational at times.

      I was reading a comment thread on Crossexamined.org the other day discussing cosmic fine-tuning. An atheist on their continually said, when looking at cosmic fine-tuning it is reasonable to believe that there is an intelligence outside of the universe powerful enough to create and keep the universe in balance. You can’t call this entity “God;” just because it is an intelligent being and powerful enough to create everything doesn’t mean it’s “God,” it’s just very powerful.

      Which is a fair point, using semantics would give you the ability to not call a being powerful enough to create everything God. Maybe the being would just refer to itself as “I AM.” Perhaps, because the being “was,” “is,” and always “will be.”

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    • Michael61
      Posted on March 26, 2012 at 1:27pm

      @Walkabout. Well, I was born and spent 30 years in the Soviet Union.

      Take the history of communist revolution in Russia, like 1930s (or take the more recent North Korea, China, Viet Nam, Cuba…)

      The best house in every village was a clubhouse where communists forced everybody to congregate every Sunday to listen to communist lectures / sermons. There were holy books by Marx, Lenin, Stalin, Mao, and holy icons and statues (portraits of same saints)… Marriages were performed in the same houses under the same portraits.

      Bigger houses of worship were build in each town, each city, and the biggest house of worship was in the capital of course (which hold periodic communist party events) and was covered in gold and crystal all over, with huge portraits and statues of saints (Politbureau members).

      Doesn’t it look like a quasi-religious cult to you???

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    • WWFSMD
      Posted on March 26, 2012 at 1:32pm

      I‘d like to see the look on your face when you find out he isn’t…oh wait i cant :D

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    • cessna152
      Posted on March 26, 2012 at 1:59pm

      If Atheists want to change our country to their view and belief system, then they would agree that the “bill of rights” no longer pertains to them? Do you know why all rights come from God? I’ll take my rights from God that will always be there and guarantee freedom. You who don’t believe can have your “rights” from government and get branded with a number.

      BTW, I don’t understand why these Atheists are okay with tens of thousands of man made laws but have a problem with 10 laws from God that guarantee freedom? Why?

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    • Michael61
      Posted on March 26, 2012 at 2:02pm

      @Walkabout.

      And for more recent examples, take a look at the Cult of Obama’s Personality, with all photographs, portraits and books, with Obama summer camps for children, with Obama Youth Brigades, with Obama songs and Obama letters…

      Doesn’t it look like a quasi-religious cult to you?

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    • TheUtterlyAbsurd
      Posted on March 26, 2012 at 2:04pm

      I can assure you, any god that sends most of its creation to eternal hell fire is an imperfection and a despot who deserved to be condemned rather than fearfully worshipped. How absurd you fairy tales of a mysterious entity in space is. Ridiculous and childish nonsense that should be cast into the dust bin of history. Tales for which there is absolutely no evidence whatsoever; a tale that falls entirely on faith, which is the irrational belief in the improbable.

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    • Therightsofbilly
      Posted on March 26, 2012 at 2:18pm

      @THEUTTERLYABSURD

      Curious that you end your post with the word…….“improbable”

      Weren’t you supposed to say…….“Impossible” ?

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    • colt1860
      Posted on March 26, 2012 at 2:24pm

      @TheUtterlyAbsurd I can assure you, any God that does not send the likes of Hitler, Stalin and Mussolini to eternal hell fire is an imperfection and a despot who deserves to be condemned rather than fearfully worshiped. A God that demands and guarantees true Justice, and also provides mercy and grace for those truly repentant is a God who I fearfully worship. I worship no being in the sky, nor do I worship anything in the skies. I worship a being that is all powerful, who by himself created the universe and all things therein. Wherefore, I worship a Divine Being whose existence is outside of time, matter or anything conceivable to the human eye. I believe in accounts and testimonies made by certain witnesses (servants of this God) that have been meticulously and sacredly passed down through thousands and hundreds of generations. No other record, “tale”, account, testimony or story has been passed down through most of the known history of the world with such passion, care, influence or impact. No other Book has had such an impact on nations, peoples and cultures as has this Book. Every year, decade and century some artifact is found or discovery made that confirms what was said in that Book. Archeologists, when excavating through the Holy Land, use that Book as a guidance and reference. To say this Book is a fairy tale is to dismiss the profound influence, impression and impact it has had in this world, especially in our Western Civilized World.

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    • TheUtterlyAbsurd
      Posted on March 26, 2012 at 2:28pm

      I canno’t say with absolute certainty that there is no god. How could I? I find the existence of a god, as described by humanities many religions, to be to so absurd and unlikely that I define myself as an atheist, but I could never say I “know” there is no god, whatever that may be.

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    • cessna152
      Posted on March 26, 2012 at 2:29pm

      @TheUtterlyAbsurd

      Ummm, God explains it in the Bible and he does NOT send you to hell he gives you a choice. He does not force you to worship him, he gives you a choice to follow him or not…that is TRUE love. Forcing someone to accept you or forcing someone to do anything is not love and that‘s what you’re doing.BTW, look what happens in societies that push God out completely. Utter destruction and disregard of human life. Every regime that was anti-God was pro murder..Stalin, Mao, Hitler, etc, etc, etc…coincidence? Nope!

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    • Michael61
      Posted on March 26, 2012 at 2:31pm

      @TheRight.

      Distinguishing an “absence of evidence” from “evidence of absence”

      The difference between evidence that something is absent (e.g. an observation that suggests there are no dragons) and a simple absence of evidence (e.g. no careful research has been done) can be nuanced. Indeed, scientists will often debate whether an experiment’s result should be considered evidence of absence, or if it remains absence of evidence (e.g. the experiment could have missed what it was looking for).

      http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evidence_of_absence

      If there is god, he is not material and can not be discovered using any scientific experiments. You can‘t prove that god doesn’t exist just by absense of evidence, you simply have to believe that “Hypothesis of god is unnecessary”…

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    • USAMEDIC3008
      Posted on March 26, 2012 at 2:33pm

      2012 -dumb ass movement

      FIRST CONTACT Open house at area 51

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    • RajCaj
      Posted on March 26, 2012 at 2:37pm

      @Michael61

      I wish more atheists shared your tolerance for other people’s freedoms. As you rightly point out, its freedom OF religion, not FROM…..including the right to NOT worship anything if that’s your persuasion.

      Out of ALL the things going on in this world, do we REALLY need to be telling people they are stupid for believing in a system that preaches good will toward your neighbor?

      The problem is that the way that is being tought to people to get your message out isn’t winning hearts and minds, its by making enough noise until people acknowledge you. Radical activisim (and this goes for most of the special interest group movements) does nothing to pit people agaisnt people and perpetuate stereotypes.

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    • TheUtterlyAbsurd
      Posted on March 26, 2012 at 2:59pm

      Any god that doesn’t send the likes of Hitler to hell is unjust? Had Hitler repented, we who enter heaven, yet many of those he had exterminated would go to hell. All that’s required for eternal bliss to to kneel before him, ones life and deeds irrelevant. Thats my understanding of it, and its insane. What of the people in remote regions of the world who have never been exposed to the gospel, and die without ever hearing the name of Jesus Christ? They deserve hell for being born into the wrong culture/religion? Christianity doesn’t fit well with ones society and cultural lifestyle/norms/mores/taboos etc, and thus Christianity fails to flourish their. They are at fault for continuing their traditions? Your god is said to be omniscient and omnipresent, so by creating Adam and Eve he understood that they’d become fallen, and that humanity would be damned. How cruel and despicable of you god, the dictator, the despot, the egotistical thing… Bow down to me, and worship my almighty power, or go to hell. I knew what would happen, I knew before you were born that you’d not repent, or not be exposed to the gospel, thus damning you to hell for eternity. The child who perishes, and goes to hell, while the mother weeps in heaven at the thought of her child forever gone.

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    • Therightsofbilly
      Posted on March 26, 2012 at 3:14pm

      @THEUTTERLYABSURD

      Where have I known you before?

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    • TXPilot
      Posted on March 26, 2012 at 3:16pm

      Ok, it’s time for a big cull in the human species, when we have so many irretrievably worthless idiots, using up oxygen, by being allowed to continue breathing.

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    • Leopold
      Posted on March 26, 2012 at 3:18pm

      What courage!

      These people and their tamper tantrums.

      They have no idea what damage they cause. They rather live under rights and freedoms given by men, who can take them away at any moment, then by God, who will honour our freedom. It is never God who takes away rights and freedom. It is ALWAYS men. Usually people like Qaddafi, Hitler, Pol Pot, Castro, Chavez etc.etc.

      It is the foolishness of men that leads to destruction.

      But they in their stupidity don’t even understand, that the freedom to have tamper tantrums was given to them by REAL men with REAL courage. Men, who believed that only God gives freedom. And when you keep that in mind God will honour that.

      These men and women are clowns. Just look at them.

      What honor do atheists have? None!

      What freedoms do atheists give? None!

      What wisdom do atheists have? None!

      What tolerance do atheists have? None!

      They lie everyday. Just watch their news and read their newspapers. And why not? They don’t have any standards. They think they do. Not realizing that every law, every act of kindness, every act of bravery, every rule we live by has it’s origin in the God of the Bible. But in their arrogance they actually believe that they themselves came up with these ideas.

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    • Leopold
      Posted on March 26, 2012 at 3:19pm

      They are masters in deception and tyranny. After all, their father is the devil.

      The very term “freedom from religion” reflects their deception and tyranny.

      Since atheists are not that smart so I’ll explain. By claiming “freedom from religion”, they use the term “freedom” to make people believe they actually have freedom in mind. Throw in the term “from religion”, they want to forbid religion.

      You want to go to hell? then go. I care less and less about that. But at least give your children ALL the information so they can make an informed decision without having been poisoned by your hatred.

      They call themselves intellectuals and educated. Please….., give me a break.

      Just with that, you can see their ignorance.

      They say they don’t need a god. Yet, have made Darwin their god and science their religion. And with that they have closed their mind.

      We at least teach our children every point of view.

      I am sure there are many people here who can relate to the feelings of anger and pity.

      Anger for what they do to their children.

      Pity, for what they are doing to themselves.

      These fools do not know that they are only useful idiots advancing satans work.

      May God have mercy on them. And forgive us our anger.

      God, it becomes harder and harder to not hate our enemy. But I understand that by giving into the anger we become just like them. Please God, protect your children, the little ones and the big ones.
      Lord, especially the children of t

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    • mrqstixx
      Posted on March 26, 2012 at 3:23pm

      Hey 61,
      What’s a “kind of ” anarchist?

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    • deeberj
      Posted on March 26, 2012 at 3:34pm

      Michael61 – you are a true athiest, unlike many I have met. You don’t care if others want to have a belief in God, you just don’t have that belief. I appreciate your right to believe as you choose and at the same time you don’t want to stop me from my beliefs.

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    • The Third Archon
      Posted on March 26, 2012 at 3:50pm

      @the Theists

      Yeah, but what if you are wrong?

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    • TH30PH1LUS
      Posted on March 26, 2012 at 4:24pm

      @ TheUtterlyAbsurd

      You‘ll find a discussion of God’s justice and isolated people groups not exposed to the Law, the Prophets, or the Gospel in the book of Acts chapter 17. I recommend further study in the surrounding passages to give context, and deeper examination of Christian theology.

      “In the past God overlooked such ignorance, but now he commands all people everywhere to repent. For he has set a day when he will judge the world with justice by the man he has appointed. He has given proof of this to everyone by raising him from the dead.” Acts 17:30-31

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    • Therightsofbilly
      Posted on March 26, 2012 at 4:29pm

      MRQSTIXX said:

      “Hey 61,
      What’s a “kind of ” anarchist?”

      @MR QSTIXX

      Kids these days……….no commitment.

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    • Cesium
      Posted on March 26, 2012 at 5:32pm

      @spankdamonkey “I‘d like to see the look on their faces when they find out he’s real…………….”

      I‘d like to see the look on your face when you find out it’s a farce.! That will never happen but at least I will die with a humble perspective in life. Unlike your egotistical pride, I do not claim to have knowledge without great evidence nor do I most evil-y hope for the denigration of others as you do. Just a human puppet, everyone loves to right! makes you feel good don’t it! Yet, doesn’t make you right oh.. so sorry..

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    • Bad_Ashe
      Posted on March 26, 2012 at 7:48pm

      @THEUTTERLYABSURD – Having read ALL of your posts here, I have but one question to ask — is this some kind of satirical performance art? If it is, it’s brilliant!

      I mean the logical failures, the obvious ignorance of Christian theology, the rant against the despotic sky bully, and let us not forget the multiple examples of argumentum ad Hilterum — it was all so utterly brilliant. I’ve rarely seen a comedic send up of atheist irrationality so spot on as this one.

      You need to take this off Broadway my friend and embark on a national tour. I’m happy to launch a Kickstarter campaign for you. Comedy such as this must be shared with the rest of the world. Brilliant! Brilliant! Brilliant!

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    • colt1860
      Posted on March 26, 2012 at 8:39pm

      Wow, several of my posts answering some of these posts have been deleted… Seriously?

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    • bigdaddyt46
      Posted on March 27, 2012 at 9:39am

      “i‘d rather live my life believing there is a God only to die and find out there isn’t one, than to live believing there isn’t a God only to find out there is.”

      Benjamin Franklin

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    • Charles Bronson
      Posted on March 27, 2012 at 11:33am

      bigdaddyt46, those words were never uttered by Ben Franklin. I mean, I see a lot of terrible attributes to the founders, but that is one of the most absurd quotes I’ve seen attributed to Franklin.

      “I mean the logical failures, the obvious ignorance of Christian theology,” Yes. From the Christians themselves… I find it amusing (if that’s the word for it) the utter glee Christians express in believing someone dying and then supposedly meeting their maker is behavior their god would approve of. That kind of sick circle jerk can only from dogmatic groupthink ignorance.

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  • Nevermind
    Posted on March 26, 2012 at 12:49pm

    Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}

    I hold to God and Jesus of my own free will and choice. As any American these insane ones have the right to fundamentally disagree and I will respect that while disagreeing with their stand.

    In the mean time I will exercise my right, while it still exists, to do thus:

    I WILL IGNORE THERE IGNORANT RANTS.
    I choose TO NOT INTERACT WITH THEM.

    May they come to know and accept the truth before the Judgment comes.

    *******

    Yo do understand that as a Christian one of the teaching is not to judge? Its a fairly basic concept and when you call one who doenst agree wiht your beliefs “ insane” it shows that you suck at being a Christian. So as far as “ accepting the truth before judgement comes” if there is a god you havent followed his word and would be judged harshly.

    In the words of Gandhi ” I like your Christ, i do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ” .

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    • Therightsofbilly
      Posted on March 26, 2012 at 12:57pm

      Is that Saul ya got?

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    • ShyMan
      Posted on March 26, 2012 at 1:20pm

      To paraphrase Gahndi, “do what I want or I’ll hurt myself.”

      That’s someone not to be admired.

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    • Texas Chris
      Posted on March 26, 2012 at 1:20pm

      Actually, Christians called to judge, but not be judgemental. Big difference.

      He is axactly right to judge, and to distance himself from those he judges poorly. Bad company corrupts good morals.

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    • momrules
      Posted on March 26, 2012 at 1:36pm

      I have always found it interesting that atheists like to tell Christians how the Bible should be interpreted and how we should behave.

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    • Leopold
      Posted on March 26, 2012 at 1:55pm

      What courage!

      Usually these people are very afraid of signs of religion and anything that represents God. Is he not afraid that some sort of religiosity might rub into him? Especially the guy with this hat on his head?

      Oh wait, I am just thinking, he might be willing to become a martyr. Not in the real sense of course. God forbid that any of these people would actually put their lives on the line like that. After all there really is nothing that they hold THAT dear. These godless people are usually not that brave. (except Soldiers) They only demonstrate because they know they are safe. After all they live in a free country in which God’s people are willing to put their lives down to protect these people.

      And guess what all you atheists on here you are nothing but trouble and don’t even know the damage you cause. But then again you are atheists and not all that smart. Smart people usually inform themselves and then make up their mind. With all your tamper tantrums, and that is what it is with you people, you proof your ignorance to us everyday.

      You are probably very proud of yourselves. Yeah, we showed them, didn’t we Joe?

      You are such fools. You don’t even know that you are useful idiots of satan. You want to go to hell? then go, but please think of your children. They deserve better. It is not their fault that they were born into families like yours.

      God, please forgive my sarkasm. I needed to get it out.
      And have pitty on these people.

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    • Copo
      Posted on March 26, 2012 at 4:40pm

      We aren’t supposed to judge hypocritically, however we are to judge, we are to show people the truth. What do you think is love, willing to destroy your reputation and to be called a bigot to be able to save someone or allowing that person to be damned in the name of tolerance.

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    • rose-ellen
      Posted on March 31, 2012 at 7:25pm

      Not judge?You have no problem judging muslims and spewing genocidal hatred on them.hypocrite!

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    • faythful1
      Posted on March 31, 2012 at 7:34pm

      True, there are many “Christians” are should not call themselves such, for like you say, they are busy judging others, including within there own religions. Or, judging those that don’t worship, or think as they do. However, to be honest, most “organized” religions, and/or groups such as yours, think the same way. A true Christian will be humble, and live his life according to God’s teachings, not the churches. Therefore, it is with love, that He first gave to me, that I truly share with you, and understand where you are coming from. I have learned to “hate the sin, not the sinner”, and that is not an easy thing to do in this day and age, for all fall short of the wisdom of God, I said God, not man. Anything/anytime a man makes laws, or rules, “hell” usually follows. Hence, when Jesus said to be “not of this world” think He meant it! As long as we participate in “hate gatherings, gossip, lust, etc., etc., etc., we are still “of the world” and following Satan like the rest of his minions. Pray that we can come together before too long, and all churches are gone, and start to live as Jesus told us to live. Not within walls, but “going forth” and teaching of His love, and serving one another. Peace and love to you and yours.

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  • bpodlesnik
    Posted on March 26, 2012 at 12:48pm

    Lets please not stoop to their level and call them harsh names, but pray for all of them.

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  • Loki
    Posted on March 26, 2012 at 12:47pm

    what is sad, these idiots in the video are shown as the “typical athiest” when they are not.
    This is the same trick when people film westboro baptist church and use them as a “typical chistian”.
    the issue is isnt athiest, but the militant mind set. extremists….

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    • Texas Chris
      Posted on March 26, 2012 at 1:22pm

      Great point. People are free to make their own decisions about God. But they should not resort to force, government, to spread their belief.

      We Christians are the chiefs of sinners on that count.

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    • SoupSandwich
      Posted on March 27, 2012 at 7:43am

      Well said.

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  • eternal_vigilance
    Posted on March 26, 2012 at 12:46pm

    Although what it/they “looks like” is a definite “tell,” what they think, do and say is much more important. Looks like another case of “In their OWN words.” (I‘m sure Oprah can’t afford to sue me for that one)

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    • Cesium
      Posted on March 26, 2012 at 5:39pm

      Oh Please!you don’t think the Blaze selectively edited to show the weirdos which you can find at any rally? I was at the first big tea party rally in DC. There were definitely a few weird people here and there..nearby us. Wearing pins and ridiculous hats.. they’re probably most likely to take an interview too.

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  • Itsjusttim
    Posted on March 26, 2012 at 12:45pm

    To fight the good fight? Is to plant the seed of the truth, and most people won’t listen at that particular moment, but then the people slaughter each other in great numbers, and the survivors then see the truth.

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    • Itsjusttim
      Posted on March 26, 2012 at 12:50pm

      Because the truth of the matter is that when the world is full of more than 8 billion people, most of them are just animals, but they are not Mankind.

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    • Itsjusttim
      Posted on March 26, 2012 at 12:55pm

      And that’s why we are seeing weird things come about, because the planet naturally controls the population of animals, but it does not control the population of Mankind.

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    • sawbuck
      Posted on March 26, 2012 at 12:56pm

      Tim
      Do animals have souls..?

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    • Itsjusttim
      Posted on March 26, 2012 at 1:07pm

      I think I can make it more to the point for you. If you don’t care about having a number, then you’re an animal.

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    • deeberj
      Posted on March 26, 2012 at 3:46pm

      Tim, I don’t aways understand your posts but this post makes sense to me. My son and I were just discussing how mankind is so off track because too many of us live too close together. People kill each other for no reason. It’s getting worse.

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    • NotHereToJudge
      Posted on March 31, 2012 at 11:55pm

      I think your right! Click here and watch this video. It will reveal why I think you are right.
      “http://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=johnathan+cahn+the+harbinger&view=detail&mid=51C0991652E4C29F8E3551C0991652E4C29F8E35&first=0&qpvt=johnathan+cahn+the+harbinger”

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  • sawbuck
    Posted on March 26, 2012 at 12:44pm

    I’m going to write this real slow, because some of you Atheist cant read to fast.
    How are you going to separate “church and state” ?
    when the foundation of our judicial system is established the same way God Commands his people.. ? “VENGEANCE IS MINE”

    BOTH OUR GOD ..AND… OUR COUNTRIES COURTS
    demand this from their people.

    When justice is taken into ONE’S own hand in both CASES ..

    That person is GUILTY and will be punished accordingly ..!

    And with this in mind.. I will ask again. .ATHEIST

    How can YOU…. SEPARATE…( CHURCH AND STATE)…??

    Hmmm…
    I wonder where our founding father’s got this premise/idea ..
    for OUR judicial system…?

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    • MrButcher
      Posted on March 26, 2012 at 12:59pm

      They got it from Rome.

      The same people who, coincidentally, executed Jesus.

      Democratic-republicanism is not derived from the Abrahamic faith structure. The 10 Commandments are not the basis of our laws. We take our governmental structure from Ancient Rome and Greece.

      For instance, Lady Justice, the statue with its eyes covered holding a scale and a sword, was a Roman goddess (the carbon-copy of the Greek goddess ****). Do you wish to suggest that we all start praying to her?

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    • sawbuck
      Posted on March 26, 2012 at 1:11pm

      Keep going back BEFORE THEM … MR BUTCHER
      where do you think they came up with the same premise/idea ..
      for THEIR judicial system…?

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    • MeMadMax
      Posted on March 26, 2012 at 1:50pm

      You have a empty arguement there SawBuck…..

      In the 235 years since the inception of this country, at no time has a church “ran” this country or made a “decision” as to the direction that this country will take…
      Separation of church and state has worked and always will….
      Quit being a blowhorn for the progressive movement and get with the 21st century…

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    • sawbuck
      Posted on March 26, 2012 at 8:02pm

      @MeMadMax
      Oh look a communist troll….
      Projecting his ideology on another person.
      Who’s the progressive …dipstick…!
      We have onlyUSE to have the Ten Commandments in every Court-house
      and School-house throughout our nation and some us of sill remember …!
      Your going to have to wait another decade or two,after people forget,
      before you start pulling that BS .

      FYI …It’s the STATE out of CHURCH …NOT… The other way around.
      But I have a feeling your communist mind-set ,
      never let facts get in the way of you and your ilk’s agenda..!!

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    • rose-ellen
      Posted on March 31, 2012 at 7:45pm

      The stated belief that our rights[unlike those athiest countries] come from God -not- man is of course a self serving belief system no different then the athiests belief system[materialism]You can say our rights come from God all you want but it is men not God who have the power to arrest you and deprive you of your freedom.believe what you believe-your claims are as pompous and arrogant as the athiests.if tomorrow men pass a law allowing you to marry your same sex partner then it becomes your right.There were times when we claimed the right to vote was not a God given right for women -until it was made legal.years later that law allowing women to vote feels to our sensibilities as flowing from our God given rights.All rights are culturally determined[granted] by men[people] and always have been. And all people have claimed their laws come from the gods or god.Athiests are no more cfull of conceit then believers.You can fanagle with words all you want-freedom from vs. freedom of,god given vs man made, etc. but the bottom line existentially is that people[in positions of power] make laws and people have the power to confer or deprive people of their freedom.Whether in an athiestic system or a capitalist one.

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    • NotHereToJudge
      Posted on March 31, 2012 at 11:58pm

      Don’t worry, God will seperate Church and State before He carries out his plans.
      Watch this video and you‘ll see that He’s already started it in motion.
      “http://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=johnathan+cahn+the+harbinger&view=detail&mid=51C0991652E4C29F8E3551C0991652E4C29F8E35&first=0&qpvt=johnathan+cahn+the+harbinger”

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  • IMCHRISTIAN
    Posted on March 26, 2012 at 12:44pm

    Good to know the rest of us will have love, peace, and no picket signs of unbelievers when we go to the promised land. A lot of them will change their minds when closer to illness or death and we may see them in love and peace and praising God. If not if you want nothing you will get nothing.

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  • bvberry
    Posted on March 26, 2012 at 12:42pm

    I am an atheist who is conservative but does not believe in God or the supernatural. I take issue with the statement that we do not have a moral compass. Have you ever heard of the concept of reciprocity? It predates Christianity by a thousand years.

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    • Michael61
      Posted on March 26, 2012 at 12:55pm

      Well, I am an atheist and kinda Anarchist + Libertarian = Minarchist.

      However, I don’t bother religious people about their god. Unlike many atheists, I don‘t demand that they don’t celebrate Christmas, they don’t wear crosses, they don’t pray in public, they don’t have Bible studies in school, etc.

      Freedom OF religion, not freedom FROM religion.

      Btw, atheism in the Soviet Union and China was kinda religion. They mummified Vladimir Lenin (and later Josef Stalin), they worshipped a little red book, they built huge church-like buildings and congregated there every week to listen for sermons and to worship communism.

      Looks like the quantum-mechanical Universe doesn’t permit an empty spot for religion. If you remove a religion like Christianity, the spot will be filled with some quasi-religion like communism, fascism, environmentalism, etc.

      Of course Christian morals (or more politically correct, Judeo-Christian morals) are implicit in the American society. Well, if those moral principles make people work hard and take care of their families, I am all for it.

      What is your beef with their god? If it works, let it be.

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    • jcldwl
      Posted on March 26, 2012 at 1:04pm

      BV in hopes that you may see the light. How about you read the bible and see the old testament prophecies that were fulfilled by Christ, and the current prophecies that are being fulfilled in our world right now. If anything it will at least make you stop and think and perhaps help you see the truth of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. Just my attempt to reach out to you.

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    • TH30PH1LUS
      Posted on March 26, 2012 at 1:20pm

      @ bvberry: the origin of your moral compass is described here:

      All who sin apart from the law will also perish apart from the law, and all who sin under the law will be judged by the law. For it is not those who hear the law who are righteous in God’s sight, but it is those who obey the law who will be declared righteous. (Indeed, when Gentiles, who do not have the law, do by nature things required by the law, they are a law for themselves, even though they do not have the law. They show that the requirements of the law are written on their hearts, their consciences also bearing witness, and their thoughts sometimes accusing them and at other times even defending them.) This will take place on the day when God judges people’s secrets through Jesus Christ, as my gospel declares. (from the book of Romans chapter 1)

      a good read from a former atheist: http://www.amazon.com/Mere-Christianity-C-S-Lewis/dp/0060652926

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    • bvberry
      Posted on March 26, 2012 at 3:34pm

      I don‘t have any problems with them believing in their gods or worshiping what they like as long as they don’t force it on me or mine. I was only objecting to the statement that being atheist makes me immoral, which is a patently false statement. Morality does not begin and end with the Christian God.

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    • bvberry
      Posted on March 26, 2012 at 3:45pm

      jcldwl and TH30PH1LUS.

      I apologize. I did not mean to report your posts. I hit the wrong link. It seems there is no way to reply to a reply.

      I grew up in a Southern Baptist church so I have read the bible, extensively. It was my study of the bible that led me away from it. I know it is in your religion to pity me so I wont tell you not to. :)

      I read Mere Christianity a few years ago. I could not accept his premises but I did enjoy the rest of the book. It has some good advice on living a good life and how to treat others.

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    • NotHereToJudge
      Posted on April 1, 2012 at 12:03am

      Then can you explain what is revealed in this video because to me, resiprocity won’t have created what is reveal here!
      “http://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=johnathan+cahn+the+harbinger&view=detail&mid=51C0991652E4C29F8E3551C0991652E4C29F8E35&first=0&qpvt=johnathan+cahn+the+harbinger”

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  • momrules
    Posted on March 26, 2012 at 12:41pm

    I feel very sad for these people. Very sad.

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  • Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
    Posted on March 26, 2012 at 12:41pm

    I hold to God and Jesus of my own free will and choice. As any American these insane ones have the right to fundamentally disagree and I will respect that while disagreeing with their stand.

    In the mean time I will exercise my right, while it still exists, to do thus:

    I WILL IGNORE THERE IGNORANT RANTS.
    I choose TO NOT INTERACT WITH THEM.

    May they come to know and accept the truth before the Judgment comes.

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  • chameleonx
    Posted on March 26, 2012 at 12:40pm

    Watching this video make me glad I’m an atheist. It is great to see people who are critical of religion.

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    • teddyc73
      Posted on March 26, 2012 at 1:07pm

      What about seeing people full of hatred and malice towards other people? That’s what I saw.

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    • chameleonx
      Posted on March 26, 2012 at 1:13pm

      I see a lot of that in many Christian videos online. All you have to do is look YouTube to see the many videos of Christians with hate towards non-Christians.

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    • Texas Chris
      Posted on March 26, 2012 at 1:28pm

      I wouldn’t exactly call them Christians. Churchgoers, perhaps. Or catholic, baptist, methodist, mormon, penticostal…

      A real Christian, one following the tenets of Christ, will love you, pray for you, care for you, and accept you, even while disagreeing with your decisions, lifestyle, or beliefs. They will separate the sin from the sinner; hate the sin, love the sinner.

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    • chameleonx
      Posted on March 26, 2012 at 1:51pm

      I would have to respectfully disagree. There is no such thing as a “true” Christian. Anyone claiming to be a Christian is a Christian in my book. As well Jesus in the bible didn’t preach love and peace.

      http://www.usbible.com/Jesus/hellfire_jesus.htm
      http://www.christianitydisproved.com/bible.html

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    • DoseofReality
      Posted on March 26, 2012 at 1:59pm

      Texas – if more christians acted like you described the country would be a better place. When i was a kid and went o church every sunday, that is what i heard and what I saw. however, over the years, it seems to me that Christians themselves have soiled their own image and their own doctrines. mostly whet I see now isnt love, kindness, forgiveness, understanding….all i see (for the most part) is hatred, xenophobia, lies, joy at others being sent to hell, etc. Just look at any post on this site, or any other right wing site full of self decribed Christians and you will see the same thing. very few posts that talk like you just did, MANY speaking of what the should be condemning. Its turned me from being a Christian to being spiritual/agnostic….I have no need for a faith that seems to drive msot of its members to be mean spirited/angry/judgemental.

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    • deeberj
      Posted on March 26, 2012 at 3:48pm

      Dose – how sad that you turned away from God because some of his people don’t act right. We are supposed to follow Him, not each other.

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    • Light_V_Dark
      Posted on March 26, 2012 at 9:38pm

      Every BELIEF SYSTEM IS A RELIGION.

      Those of you who are God-hating pagans are NIHILISTS, with murder, rape, ENVY & suicide in your hearts of tungston.
      &&&&&&&&&&

      Nihilism - Nothing
      His(Albert Camus) essay, The Rebel paints a terrifying picture of how metaphysical  collapse often ends in total negation and the victory of nihilism, CHARACTERIZED BY PROFOUND HATRED, PATHOLOGICAL DESTRUCTION AND INCALULABLE DEATH(my emphasis).http://www.allaboutphilosophy.org/nihilism.htm

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    • tarm778
      Posted on March 26, 2012 at 11:48pm

      It’s great for you to watch people wasting their time by spreading lies and fallacies, and promoting doubt and hate when, in the end, you have to admit tha twhat you believe in is nothing more than what you see around you?

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  • capitalismrocks
    Posted on March 26, 2012 at 12:39pm

    Its fine to express their views, but like the idiot with the Cardinal hat on, that’s insulting and not acceptable….

    If you don’t want to believe in God, so be it, I could care less, I won’t let any less of you, and I just don’t agree with you. On a personal level, too many things have happened in my life that show me, personally, there is more to this world then “random chance” and “Godless happenings” so I believe and I won’t change, they don‘t believe and if they don’t wish to change, again, so be it.

    I tolerate the 300+ non-religious days of the year, so buck up and tolerate the religious days, whether you agree or believe, people have their right to celebrate and observe such things, you don’t have to, and that is the freedom you have in this Country. If you don’t want to say “God” in the Pledge of Allegiance, then omit that word, however, don’t make the other 87% of us change to accomodate you not wanting to say God. If you don’t like the 10 Commandments, no one makes you recite them or look at them in front of a Courthouse or other building, no one is forcing you to be religious and the very fact that you have chosen not to be religious, shows you have your own freedoms and rights, so continue on your way, just don’t interfere with those of us who do believe and want to believe and want to express ourselves Religiously which is protected under the 1st Amendment.

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    • Pontiac
      Posted on March 26, 2012 at 12:57pm

      [no one makes you recite them or look at them in front of a Courthouse or other building,]
      So when atheist, muslims, or Scientologist get a monument or plaque outside/inside a courthouse you have to appear in, don’t loot at the religious majorities propaganda and it will be alright, right?
      Facilitating religion is not a legitimate function of government.

      [express ourselves Religiously which is protected under the 1st Amendment.]
      Don’t confuse “yourself” for “ourselves”. Individual rights are not majority rights. That courthouse is not your house.

      http://atheism.about.com/od/tencommandments/a/americanlaw.htm

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    • TheUtterlyAbsurd
      Posted on March 26, 2012 at 1:40pm

      Why should religion be thrown onto the holy pedestal free from criticism and slander? Why should I just accept that I should respect your religion? I don’t see any reason to show fables and fairy tales undeserved respect, specially when they have as much influence and hold over a culture as they do here in America.

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    • Pontiac
      Posted on March 26, 2012 at 1:56pm

      [don’t loot at the religious ]
      *scratches head*
      I don’t know why that came out as “loot” and not “look”. Those keys aren’t even pressed by the same hand.

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    • colt1860
      Posted on March 26, 2012 at 2:40pm

      “I have lived, sir, a long time, and the longer I live, the more convincing proofs I see of this truth: that God governs in the affairs of man. And if a sparrow cannot fall to the ground without His notice, is it probable that an empire can rise without His aid? We have been assured, Sir, in the Sacred Writings that except the Lord build the house, they labor in vain that build it.” Benjamin Franklin

      “The General hopes and trusts that every officer and man will endeavor to live and act as becomes a Christian soldier defending the dearest rights and liberties of his country.” George Washington

      “When we view the blessings with which our country has been favored, those which we now enjoy, and the means which we possess of handing them down unimpaired to our latest posterity, our attention is irresistibly drawn to the source from whence they flow. Let us then, unite in offering our most grateful acknowledgments for these blessings to the Divine Author of All Good.” James Monroe

      “Do not separate text from historical background. If you do, you will have perverted and subverted the Constitution, which can only end in a distorted, bastardized form of illegitimate government.” – James Madison

      “Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.” – John Adams

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    • Pontiac
      Posted on March 26, 2012 at 5:02pm

      @Colt1860
      Your James Madison quote is misattributed… Atheist can play this quote game too. Just don’t try to pass off David Bartons fabrications as real. You’re also trying to make their personal beliefs Constitutional law. Doesn’t work that way.

      This is law.
      “As the Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion,—as it has in itself no character of enmity against the laws, religion, or tranquility, of Mussulmen,—and as the said States never entered into any war or act of hostility against any Mahometan nation, it is declared by the parties that no pretext arising from religious opinions shall ever produce an interruption of the harmony existing between the two countries.”
      –Treaty of Tripoli – Article 11 – ratified by the United States on June 10, 1797 & Signed by President John Adams (treaty started under George Washington)

      This is a founders belief.
      “I do not believe in the creed professed by the Jewish church, by the Roman church, by the Greek church, by the Turkish church, by the Protestant church, nor by any church that I know of. My own mind is my own church. All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions, set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit.” – Thomas Paine

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    • Pontiac
      Posted on March 26, 2012 at 5:04pm

      “By maintaining the separation of church and state the United States has avoided the intolerance which has so divided the rest of the world with religious wars . . . Can any of us refute the wisdom of Madison and the other framers? Can anyone look at the carnage in Iran, the bloodshed in Northern Ireland, or the bombs bursting in Lebanon and yet question the dangers of injecting religious issues into the affairs of state?” – Barry Goldwater, 1981
      -
      “We in the United States, above all, must remember that lesson, for we were founded as a nation of openness to people of all beliefs. And so we must remain. Our very unity has been strengthened by our pluralism. We establish no religion in this country, we command no worship, we mandate no belief, nor will we ever. Church and state are, and must remain, separate. All are free to believe or not believe, all are free to practice a faith or not, and those who believe are free, and should be free, to speak of and act on their belief.
      At the same time that our Constitution prohibits state establishment of religion, it protects the free exercise of all religions. And walking this fine line requires government to be strictly neutral.”–Ronald Reagan 10-26-1984
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      “Accustom a people to believe that priests and clergy can forgive sins… and you will have sins in abundance.”
      - Thomas Paine

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    • colt1860
      Posted on March 26, 2012 at 5:22pm

      97th Congress Joint Resolution

      [S.J.Res. 165] 96 Stat. 1211
      Public Law 97-280 – October 4, 1982

      Joint Resolution authorizing and requesting the President to proclaim 1983 as the “Year of the Bible.”

      Whereas the Bible, the Word of God, has made a unique contribution in shaping the United States as a distinctive and blessed nation and people;

      Whereas deeply held religious convictions springing from the Holy Scriptures led to the early settlement of our Nation;

      Whereas Biblical teachings inspired concepts of civil government that are contained in our Declaration of Independence and the constitution of the United States;

      Whereas many of our great national leaders—among them Presidents Washington, Jackson, Lincoln, and Wilson—paid tribute to the surpassing influence of the Bible in our country’s development, as the words of President Jackson that the Bible is “the rock on which our Republic rests”;

      Whereas the history of our Nation clearly illustrates the value of voluntarily applying the teachings of the Scriptures in the lives of individuals, families, and societies;

      Whereas this Nation now faces great challenges that will test this Nation as it has never been tested before; and

      Whereas that renewing our knowledge of and faith in God through Holy Scripture can strengthen us as a nation and a people: Now, therefore, be it

      Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,

       
    • colt1860
      Posted on March 26, 2012 at 5:23pm

      That the President is authorized and requested to designate 1983 as a national “Year of the Bible” in recognition of both the formative influence the Bible has been for our Nation, and our national need to study and apply the teachings of the Holy Scriptures.

      Approved October 4, 1982.

       
    • colt1860
      Posted on March 26, 2012 at 5:31pm

      Read the Inaugural and Farewell Addresses of all our early Presidents. They all mention God.

      “If the public homage of a people can ever be worthy the favorable regard of the Holy and Omniscient Being to whom it is addressed, it must be that in which those who join in it are guided only by their free choice, by the impulse of their hearts and the dictates of their consciences; and such a spectacle must be interesting to all Christian nations as proving that religion, that gift of Heaven for the good of man, freed from all coercive edicts, from that unhallowed connection with the powers of this world which corrupts religion into an instrument or an usurper of the policy of the state…Upon these principles and with these views the good people of the United States are invited, in conformity with the resolution aforesaid, to dedicate the day above named to the religious solemnities therein recommended.”
      Given at Washington, this 23d day of July, A. D. 1813.[seal.] JAMES MADISON

      The founding fathers did not detest the mentioning of God or religious content, even within Government, but they did detest any church or ecclesiastical institution having POWER (Authority) with or over our Government.

       
    • colt1860
      Posted on March 26, 2012 at 6:48pm

      The separation of church and state IS, for all practical matters regarding Government or its administration, absolute. The Supreme Court with many Progressives and Liberals have falsely interpreted (and expanded, albeit unconstitutionally) Jefferson’s letter as meaning therein, a separation from RELIGION, or religious content. Jefferson here did not mean Religion, but AN ESTABLISHMENT OF RELIGION, such as a Church, or, any Ecclesiastical Institution or Organization pertaining thereto. Meaning, no ecclesiastical body of men, or clergy, would have any authority or direct influence over State matters, or affairs therein. The founding fathers well knew the evils of external or foreign institutions influencing or guiding Government, or affecting its Form therein. Th US Constitution prohibits Congress from creating, or adopting, any ESTABLISHMENT of Religion; or from making any such Establishment a part of our General Government, or function thereof. They did not intend to prohibit private Citizens from exercising or declaring their faith or religion in the public square, as that would be contrary or oppressive to the free conscience of every man. At no point did the first Amendment imply a separation of Government and Religion. The first Amendment CLEARLY, SPECIFICALLY, and UNEQUIVOCALLY states, declares, and says, AN ESTABLISHMENT of Religion. IT DOES NOT SAY, solely, Religion.

       
    • colt1860
      Posted on March 26, 2012 at 6:49pm

      The United States Northwest Ordinance.

      July 13, 1787

      “…And, for extending the fundamental principles of civil and religious liberty, which form the basis whereon these republics, their laws and constitutions are erected; to fix and establish those principles as the basis of all laws, constitutions, and governments, which forever hereafter shall be formed in the said territory…

      Article I. No person, demeaning himself in a peaceable and orderly manner, shall ever be molested on account of his mode of worship or religious sentiments, in the said territory…

      Article III. Religion, morality, and knowledge, being necessary to good government and the happiness of mankind, schools and the means of education shall forever be encouraged…”

       
    • Bad_Ashe
      Posted on March 26, 2012 at 8:05pm

      @PONTIAC – “Atheist can play this quote game too.”

      Indeed they can. I find that they’re simply the best at it. I’ve also found that when in doubt an atheist always seems to go for a quote or an improper appeal to authority when they should be going for evidence to support their position. They are also masters of statistical chicanery as well.

      It must be a result of all that intellectual dishonesty they engage in day in and day out.

      Cheers!

      Bad_Ashe  
  • wboehmer
    Posted on March 26, 2012 at 12:38pm

    Romans 1:18-22
    The wrath of God is being revealed from heaven against all the godlessness and wickedness of people, who suppress the truth by their wickedness, since what may be known about God is plain to them, because God has made it plain to them. For since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities—his eternal power and divine nature—have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that people are without excuse.
    For although they knew God, they neither glorified him as God nor gave thanks to him, but their thinking became futile and their foolish hearts were darkened. Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools

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  • Conservative New Yorker
    Posted on March 26, 2012 at 12:38pm

    *One woman said, ”Get your religion out of my girl panties.*

    To paraphrase Pres Bush 41 in an interview about a woman who screamed at him about staying out of her womb:

    NO PROBLEM, LADY…!

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  • randerson503
    Posted on March 26, 2012 at 12:38pm

    I wish the interviewer, if time allotted, would have asked these people if they believe that aliens are involved in our everyday affairs, or if reptilians had ufo bases underground, or if the “illuminati” was conspiring against them. I bet these fools believe in global warming too.

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  • CatB
    Posted on March 26, 2012 at 12:34pm

    I would watch .. but I just had lunch .. don’t want to lose it!

    OMG 2012!

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  • cookcountypatriot
    Posted on March 26, 2012 at 12:33pm

    no jesus no peace…know jesus know peace…these are miserable souls with no moral compass…just walk on by and claim the precious blood of jesus

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    • HorseCrazy
      Posted on March 26, 2012 at 1:36pm

      sad isnt it.

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    • TheUtterlyAbsurd
      Posted on March 26, 2012 at 1:55pm

      Your arrogant comment of pure condescension is the reason there was a Reason Rally in the first place. The constant assertion from bigots as yourself that atheists are amoral, evil, possessed, w/o love and in a pit of despair is exactly why more atheists are vehemently speaking out against religion once and for all. Religion and its adherents deserve have earned no respect. I am not remotely religious and I expect nothing after death, so according to you that steals hope and happiness from humanity? I can be spiritual, and am most content when in nature, and the realization that this life is all I have makes it all the more beautiful. The idea that what we do now has no meaning because it doesn’t last forever is absolutely absurd and moronic.

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    • DoseofReality
      Posted on March 26, 2012 at 2:03pm

      So the other 6 billion or so people in the world that arent christians are miserable and have no morals? And you wonder why thers a reason rally, and why so many of us look at your bigoted, ridiculous statments and can only laugh. You sound like the miserable one there buddy….

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    • deeberj
      Posted on March 26, 2012 at 3:39pm

      Utterly – I am tired of postings about bigotry .

      If a bigot is “somebody with strong opinions, especially on politics, religion, or ethnicity, who refuses to accept different views”, then why is it always wrong to be one? I have strong opinions regarding my beliefs and politics, and although I know people can have other views I don’t have to accept them as valid or truthful. I guess I am a bigot in some ways.

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  • HorseCrazy
    Posted on March 26, 2012 at 12:32pm

    athiests are continually making the case for Christianity everytime they open their mouths.

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    • TheUtterlyAbsurd
      Posted on March 26, 2012 at 2:01pm

      Right, care to explain yourself bud? Even if they failed to coherently get across their point, it says nothing on the validity of atheism or christianity. It doesn’t help that the blaze cherry picked who to talk to and placed comedic music in the background. Total bias and misrepresentation by the blaze once again.

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    • Therightsofbilly
      Posted on March 26, 2012 at 8:26pm

      They should have been playing Benny Hill music.

      Now that would have been appropriate.

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    • tarm778
      Posted on March 26, 2012 at 11:53pm

      @ Absurd
      While you show the exceptional reason why moral debate is impossible with militant atheists and progressive liberals, you failed miserably in portraying any reason in your answers. They are simply mindless rhetoric based on “nothing” but a silly attempt at argument with no meaning and no evidence.
      If you are atheist, you should be proud that you have no god and can thumb your nose at any imaginary deity willing to even notice your existence. Be happy you have the courage to face a dark and lifeless death when your body wears out and the soulless shell is dumped in a box to be buried and forgotten. You very well may have the fragile psyche that allows and embraces that option.
      If by chance there is a God, and he actually rewards believers for their faith by bestowing wisdom, wealth, understanding, skills or other life changing gifts like an epiphany or a life saving miracle simply by asking, well, I am sure you probably have all of those now and have all the answers to life’s questions, so why are you here trolling along?

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  • Itsjusttim
    Posted on March 26, 2012 at 12:32pm

    Most of the time someone who believes in God can not convince someone who doesn’t believe in God to believe in God. It’s because none of them really know why they believe what they believe enough to explain it, but it gives them enough satisfaction to just tear each other down, and so they never discover why they believe what they believe. That’s too bad. Well like it’s written, the devil doesn’t divide himself from the devil.

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  • FREDD The WILSON
    Posted on March 26, 2012 at 12:31pm

    Looks like extras for the next Star Trek movie BEAM ME UP SCOTTIE

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  • FREDD The WILSON
    Posted on March 26, 2012 at 12:24pm

    Looks like plenty of extras for the next Star Trek movie

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  • PPMStudios
    Posted on March 26, 2012 at 12:23pm

    The picture of the dolt with the Papal Mitre? You just know it’s lined with tin-foil…..

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