10 Things Christians and Atheists Can Agree on

[Farnan]

http://www.cracked.com/article_15759...-agree-on.html

A good article, even though its from a humor website it makes a lot of sense.

There are some bad words so ya know.

[Copperknickers II]

Hehe, its alright. The problem is he assumes that we care about actually changing the other side, when most of the time we only argue with them because we feel like having a laigh at someone elses expense even though we know that we are both normal people living normal lives. The exaggeration thing is particularly true about me, i tend to go into nihilist mode whenever people start talking about God's plans for humanity and heaven and hell, even though i am more humanist in reality.

[Farnan]

He is more talking to the Evangelical Christians and Evangelical Atheists (they exist, trust me), not to the everyday ones.

[Kiljan Arslan]

man I loved the little images he provided.

Also good point over all.

[Portuguese Rebel]

Evangelical Atheists

Never met one of these on the street. Should be fun though...

[Rich86]

Never met one of these on the street.

They've never been round to your house either?

[Farnan]

They've never been round to your house either?

You haven't been to a college campus have you?

The Evangelical Atheists and Evangelical Christians aregue constantly. The Evangelical Atheists are dicks and the Evangelical Christians are idiots.

[Heinz Guderian]

so thats where your sig is from Farnan? I love cracked.com. I thought you liked cocaine because its written "crack.com" above the quote.

[Kiljan Arslan]

oh but they do put up annoying signs.

[Rich86]

oh but they do put up annoying signs

Are we talking about Christians or Atheists?

[Kiljan Arslan]

Are we talking about Christians or Atheists?

Athiests up on roads signs then sue the town it was in for telling the sign company they were getting complaints.


You know their are some rather predatory christian girls.

[sephodwyrm]

Evangelical Atheists are dicks

But when they come in female form they're predatory. And hot. Some of them don't shower...so that's a minus.

[Viking Prince]

It is funny and worth the time to read. I do not think that

5. Your Point of View is Legitimately Offensive to Them

is on the mark though. My point of view or anybody's point of view should never be offensive to anyone. I have every right to take offense at someone's actions, but not their thoughts. I can disagree with an idea, I can even think the idea is offensive, but I should not be offended by the person with the idea. I do not think this was entirely made clear by the author.

[Strattios]

I agree with his statements, keeping in mind that he's talking about the extremes of each side in general.

At my school growing up, there was always a couple of older men in suits who would come on like the last day of school and they would hand out small bibles to anyone who wanted them and they'd be saying things like "you should decide for yourself". they never came on the school property or harrassed anyone. Generally likable old fellows.

Now I'm in college and I see the other side. A bunch of twenty somethings with messy hair and such. The first time I saw one I though some beggar had wandered onto the campus with his cardboard sign. It was only when I heard him preeching about how God is murder that I realized he wasn't just some beggar. I've seen dozens of them now all over the campus. They are a lot more in your face and annoying than the other guys.

[Nutsack]

I don't think it's wrong to celebrate someones death. Especially if the person who died deserved no better.

Celebrating other peoples death is what armies do every day.

[SorelusImperion]

Celebrating other peoples death is what armies do every day.

"I think it is important especially for a soldier to remember that there should never be any joy to be had in killing. It is the presence of necessity that separates honor and murder."

[Nutsack]

"I think it is important especially for a soldier to remember that there should never be any joy to be had in killing. It is the presence of necessity that separates honor and murder."

Sure, that's the ideal. But it's far from the truth.

so you consider yourself a soldier in an army?

No. I'm only saying that it's natural and the only reason you people think celebrating someone elses death is bad is because of petty, unnecessary morals. I'm generally against killing, and I also oppose of the death sentence, so don't get the wrong picture.

[Chaigidel]

so you consider yourself a soldier in an army?

[Wibbler]

Are there any other atheists who are getting annoyed at the sudden media attention anti-religious idiots are getting recently? It seriously gets on my nerves when these people put up posters and appear on TV shouting "DOWN WITH RELIGION! GO ATHEISM!". People slowly form the idea in their minds that atheism is an organised system of beliefs and the next time someone discovers that I don't believe in a god they get this little template they've built and they stick it right onto my personality and make all kinds of silly assumptions. A new word needs to be created for these people, for years when someone has asked "what religion are you?" I've replied "I'm not religious" without any contemplation but thanks to these idiots now when someone asks I actually feel myself hesitate and assess how the person acting would react. These people do a disservice to atheists everywhere and quite frankly need to give themselves a new title or shut the hell up and stop tainting our name. An example:

At this years freshers fair at the University of Leeds there were two stalls, the Christian Union and the Atheist Society. Walking past the AS stall I see a great big banner proclaiming "THERE IS NO GOD" while they stand there with megaphones yelling about how all religions are wrong and bad for society. I carry on walking and arrive at the CU stall, where friendly people are handing out free coffee and muffins and playing jenga. Who in this situation are you going to have a better view of?

[Manoflooks]

Atheism is a belief, beleiving in evolution. It is a different type of religions, but seems to me to be religion.
Dictionary says :religion: a set of beliefs concerning the nature and purpose of the universe.
that isnt the only definition, but it is one. Atheism fits.

About the article. It has some very good points, but seems to assume that atheism give somone few morals.
lol, i sent it to my missionary uncle. It should be interesting. I recently sent him an email about a guy who decorated thousands of gravestones with wreaths he donated every year for the last ten years at christmas, and about how the twelve days of christmas song was a christmas carol. he tore the email apart, proved the first part true, and proved the second part wrong. All from a little chain mail that was really nice. So it should be interesting how he responds to that.