Atheist to be monitored?

Originally posted by watchitburn
OP, I submit to you:

The Crusades(Many, many, many people killed by monotheistic believers.
Hitler, (as mentioned above)
Spanish Conquistadors (Annihilated the Incas)
Muslim fundamental extremists (Need I explain?)
The Catholic child abuse bonanza.

I think my work here is done.

But ONE insane guy makes it necessary to monitor every single person OP doesn't agree with.

reply to post by chenjesu


it is not in my interest to give you the fact, but it is in your better interest to uncover them on your own.

I understand you may feel the urge to defend a fellow atheist, but chose your actions wisely...

reply to post by SisyphusRide


You'd first have to defend what you wrote sir.

You still have yet to reply to any of my questions regarding the OP or anybody elses. Makes me think you did not want to discuss this at all, you just wanted a bunch of your friends to say " Hey, yeah let's monitor and discriminate against Atheists!".

Otherwise you'd have at least attempted to refute the points made by myself or other members no?

~Tenth

I believe that anyone is capable of committing evil. Religious or not. Religious just isnt some get into heaven free card. Just because you believe in Jesus doesn't mean you get a free ride.

So if OP wants to monitor the Atheists for being evil, i propose that EVERYONE be monitored. Because anyone, including Christians can commit evil. (Hitler)

However, it is my opinion that no one should be monitored.

Originally posted by SisyphusRide
reply to post by chenjesu

 

it is not in my interest to give you the fact, but it is in your better interest to uncover them on your own.

I understand you may feel the urge to defend a fellow atheist, but chose your actions wisely...

I am not an Athiest.

reply to post by tothetenthpower


I did write "to defend our society from the like of Jeffrey Dahmer"

he is my example I would like to concentrate on.. a homosexual atheist.

ya gotta start somewhere in trying to figure it all out...

reply to post by SisyphusRide


No, you can't take one persons actions and then apply the means to protect society from them to a whole group of people.

Again I'll ask, what if we decided to monitor all religious folks because of the many crimes committed by religious organizations and inviduals throughout history?

Would that be fair to treat all people of religious affiliation the same way, for the acts of a very few?

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Why is it that so many Christians feel like they are being threatened by Atheism? Remember Christianity is still the most popular religion (even if you count Atheism as a religion)


Cant we all live in peace?

: /

reply to post by Ericthenewbie


Source for the above post www.mamiverse.com...

am I playing nice now???

Wow -- either a monstrous troll or serious psychotic -- it is hard to see any shade of gray.

It is an interesting premise when party A wants to totally sanction party B because party A believes that party B is acting just like party A.

Yeah I'm going with party A being psychotic.

Originally posted by SisyphusRide
am I playing nice now???

Seriously OP, what is the point of this thread? You make a claim, refuse to defend it or even take the conversation anywhere by talking about why you believe this way.

Is this thread just meant to waste time?
Because you're doing me a favor, the misses comes home soon and your helping me kill time

Originally posted by SisyphusRide
reply to post by tothetenthpower

 

I did write "to defend our society from the like of Jeffrey Dahmer"

he is my example I would like to concentrate on.. a homosexual atheist.

ya gotta start somewhere in trying to figure it all out...

How 'bout we start with "The Man in the Mirror?"


You know, "He who is without sin cast the first stone", and all?

reply to post by windword


I don't think so

I am pulling them out of the woodwork for ya's though...

crap like

"I am my own God... I am 100% responsible for my own actions"

scares the heck outta me... I don't know about the rest of ya'll but I've heard this before on weird shows like unsolved mysteries and cold cases!

Originally posted by SisyphusRide
crap like

"I am my own God... I am 100% responsible for my own actions"

scares the heck outta me... I don't know about the rest of ya'll but I've heard this before on weird shows like unsolved mysteries and cold cases!

What scares me more is when people fight wars thinking its for God.
God wouldn't want war, it's a silly useless waste of life, energy and resources (my opinion)

War is waged by men in charge, but when they say God wills it people follow
(Crusades)
(Islamic extremists terrorists)

reply to post by chenjesu


haven't you heard? it's a battle of words...

The op is an absolutely disgusting post.

I've got news for the OP, if he thinks that only Christians be good, that's not true.

Jesus says there is no one good, save God.

Mark 10:18
And Jesus said unto him, Why callest thou me good? there is none good but one, that is, God.

This is exactly the kind of demonization that I mean that Christians do and one of the reasons why there is a lot of hostility towards them.

reply to post by EvilSadamClone


I guess the Christians could use it as a preemptive strike of sorts? I guess luckily for the serial killers the church is not running the state...