From our friends at AU:
The Rev. Jerry Falwell and his Religious Right cohorts have been complaining for weeks now about government agencies and store clerks saying ?Happy Holidays? instead of ?Merry Christmas? but it looks like Falwell forgot to tell President George W. Bush, First Lady Laura Bush and the Republican National Committee about the preferred religiously correct greeting.The White House?s 2005 holiday card is just out, and it doesn?t mention the word ?Christmas? once.The card, mailed under the auspices of the Republican National Committee and signed by the president and his wife, reads, ?With best wishes for a holiday season of hope and happiness 2005.? It also includes a passage from the Old Testament Book of Psalms.The front cover is an artist?s rendition of the White House and grounds covered with snow while the presidential pets, two dogs and a cat, frolic on the lawn. It contains no religious symbolism.
There will be a lot of talk about Xmas this year, but now we have GW on our side, doing the ungodly — saying “Happy Holidays” instead of “Merry Xmas”. Fallwell must hate that.So must Hannity and O’Reilly. We at American Atheists get a lot of calls from conservative talk shows during this season, mostly complaining about Xmas vs Holiday, completely ignoring the bigger issues. Sometimes, the issues are so silly we turn down the interview.I remember last year I did Hannity and Colmes about some mall in Florida calling their Easter Bunny the “Garden Bunny”. Not my idea, not our issue, but it certainly seemed like it on the show!I understand the need to remain topical, but come on folks, we need to worry about important things. Xmas v. Holiday is a small symptom of a major problem — the forced Christianization of America. Let’s work the cause, not the symptom.
You know you guys,i’m a Christian and wanted to say that no matter where youv’e been,Jesus loves you.I’m not bein’ preachy,just wanted to say God loves you NO MATTER WHAT you do.:)I am praying for you.I love you too.:)
landover baptist isn’t a church.they are a cult.they are hateful.
i am in no way condemning you.:)
Gods Girl
Actually that’s not even true in your religion. If one denegrate the fucking non-existent holy spirit/ghost, this is a sin for which there can be no forgiveness.
So if these imaginary super-beings exist, I am now officially damned without hope of forgiveness.
Of course having read such blasphemy you are also precariously close to the old lake of fire too. Better get on yer knees and start praying real hard now…
Jesus loves you.:)
I’m not blaspheming.:) John 3:16 For God so loved the world,that he gave his only begotton son,that whosoever believeth in him,shall not perish,but have everlasting life.:)
Still praying for you.:)I love you.:)Sometimes it’s hard to forgive but I will.
God will forgive a heart willing to change.:)
GODS GIRL i hope some day you can wake up from the dream of eternal life and realize there is no afterlife and try to make this life the best you can make it there is no god in my opinion but if you want to believe fine just realize most of the people on this blog probably know more about your bible than you think and have done the research and have come to the conclusion there is no god or gods or goddess or goddesses
I’m not blaspheming.:) John 3:16 For God so loved the world,that he gave his only begotton son,that whosoever believeth in him,shall not perish,but have everlasting life.:)
no you are prosetlyzing please dont it can lead to knee jerk reactions i will direct you to a very good blog that has a good post on this subject
and you can feel free to join the current threads if you behave and dont try to change our thinking but listen and add to the debate in a polite manner the blog i was reffering to is
http://biblioblography.blogspot.com/2006/03/rudeness-reification-and-risque_14.html
udonman:
Thanks for the nod, my friend. It’s much appreciated.
I don’t believe in gods,or goddesses,I believe in the one only true God.The one that created me.Why do you show so much hate to the one that brought you into exsistance?God loves you so much.He sent his son to die for you.Jesus was whipped and beaten,spat on,cussed out,and a crown of thorns was imbedded in his skull,a sword was thrown in his side,and all they tried to give him to drink was vinagar on a sponge.Before he wen’t to the cross,as he was praying to God,he began to sweat so hard he began sweating blood.I’m not being rude or preachy,i’m trying to be polite as possible.:)I’m just a little 8th grader.But all I wanted to tell you is God really does love you.And God does forgive if you repent and ask Jesus into your heart.Jesus could have said no.He could have been selfish and said,whatever,i’m not gonna die for these sinners,they can save themselves.But instead,he wen’t through all that pain.
Horace Mann developed humanistic principles.He believed that there was no God.Are you just going to believe what some guy suddenly invented?Listen,I really love you guys even though that sounds dumb,but it’s what Jesus would do.The reason some people don’t believe God exists is because the supernatural goes way beyond what the Human mind can see as truth.:)
I am not bein preachy.And I would never go up to anybody and tell them they are going to hell.That is not how a Christian should act.The landover baptist spoof site totally does not show how a Christian should act. 
Seeing is not believing.Faith,is believing.:)
A Christian should be:
Loving
Kind
Merciful
Honest
Forgiving
Faithful
Keeping promises
Loving their enemies
Love,Love,Love,Love,Love,Love,Love,andthe list simply goes on.
Christians need to act this way because that is how God is.
I have a question,though.Is Chris Harper,the creator of the landover baptist church an atheist?
And yes,Christians make mistakes.We have to repent when we do.
you say your only an8th grader so all i can tell you with out being rude is to pay attention to your science class and how do you know jesus existed to be tortured like that where is the evidence for his existence and just for refernce because the bible was wrtitten by god though men you cant say it proves god or jesus existed
and gods girl not just a christian should be like your list those are traits we should see in all of humanity
Horace Mann developed humanistic principles.He believed that there was no God.Are you just going to believe what some guy suddenly invented?
can you tell me how is this differnt than youre bible and it wasnt just horace mann there have always been people that didnt believe in your god but none at all or a whole differnt god basically what it all comes down to is once we started to socially evolve to the point where we as a species can start to ask questions about our world who did we ask but our tribal leaders and who did they ask there healers and that is basicly how religion got started it like everything else be it species technolgy or socialogy it all evolves
reluctant no problem it was perfect timing her great post (at least she is being nice) and your post on your blog
Well I am also a Christian. I am not here to preach to anyone. But to tell you why I became a Christ follower. About a little over a year ago, my life was going no where. I was so depressed and lonely I was ready to end my life. I always have gone to church but never got anything out of it. It wasn’t the right church. They could never convience me that God excisted. So while I was going through this rough time in my life my dad started going to church and excepted Christ. So I thought I would persue it more see what exactly this Christ person was. I found out pretty much everything God’s girl was telling you. So I thought I would start attempting to read the bible and go to church. I couldn’t figure out how I could believe that God wrote this Bible through people either. But some of the things that were put into the Bible are things that are happening right now around the world. It talks about the end times in the Bible, which is when everyone and thing will be destroyed. Which to me sounds like with the earthquakes happening around the world and the Hurricanes we have been having sounds kind of like what was written centuries ago in the bible.
Looking this from a non believers point of view. What if there were a heaven and hell? The way I looked at this before I was saved was I don’t believe in heaven or hell. But thinking about it I thought that it only takes one to believe that Jesus Christ died for our sins and you will be saved and be able to go into heaven. That is pretty easy is what I thought so I kinda did my own prayer and then Accepted Christ at a christian youth event during my Senior year. It was called Acquire the Fire.(2005) After I accepted Chirst into my heart and started truely believing things just kept getting better and better.
Flyerboy,
I’m glad you found something that works for you. I know there are many, many people in this world who center their lives around a theistic belief. If it gets them through the day – then all power to them I say. Unfortunately most theistic belief systems are mutually exclusive, which means that there are many, many people that must be believing, and therefore basing their lives, on a lie. And perhaps all of them.
Incidentally – I think your post is preaching. But i’m okay with that too.
Ever hear of the Black Death or the mini ice age? Natural disasters and climate change have been going on ever since the year dot. There is nothing particularly special about current times except for the huge size of the human population and our ability to quickly wipe ouselves out.
Of course the people have believed that they are witnessing the ‘end times’ for thousands of years. What makes your observations so special?
Flyerboy,
As I read somewhere earlier today (forget where), according to xianity god defined sin, made sure everyone was a sinner, sacrificed himself (for a couple of days) to himself to allow himself to change his mind about a rule he had invented, so that he could excuse his creations from himself for being who he created.
Makes perfect sense to make (if I was on acid)
God lives on forever and he loves us all no matter waht we do.He forgives us he payed the ultimate sacrifise for our sins by dieing on that cross for us and alot of us just take it for granite but not me i dont i try to be the best person i can be but im not perfect the only perfect person is God!
Hey GodRox, That is a simple way to put it.
ya im not much of a preacher but il give it all i got!
godrox,
Knoweth thy bible. I am no xian, but I know enought to know that your statement is woefully incorrect.
That means that if you say satan is something he aint,like giving glory 2 him or something,which is ssooo wrong,that is blaspheming God.God does live on forever and Jesus did pay the ultimate sacrifise for our sins.So he is not blaspheming.He is telling the ultimate truth.
o ok sry about that i just became a christian not to long ago so im trying my best
That’s okay.
I am just curious to why the people on here don’t believe. Is it because you don’t understand? You have had bad experiances with Christians?
Flyerboy
It’s because there is no cogent reason to believe in gods. Most of us understand this only too well.
Flyerboy
I read back over your post about why you are a Christian. Seems to me it’s simply because you want to believe in something. You didn’t really give a reason.
There is no reason to accept that your god is any more credible than any other god.
Feel free to ask questions, or provide verifiable proof of your god. But do your preaching somewhere else.
Comment from: Flyerboy [Member] ?
I am just curious to why the people on here don’t believe. Is it because you don’t understand? You have had bad experiances with Christians?
well flyerboy i simple dont believe because i did the research and sorry but the way the world works rules out your god it comes down to if everything has a natural cause how could there be a god which is just a super natural answer to a lack of understanding about the natural world
but I will ask all of you young christians here something who created your god myth for there shurely must be a creator of your myths and why do you believe and can you prove your god exist
God’s Girl:
I’d not heard of this fellow before. Obviously NOT a humanist. Unitarian, changed the way the bible was read, etc.
8th grade? Dear, you should really be talking to your folks about all this. Seriously. Most of us are indeed old enough to be your parents (& some of us, your grandparents, not I!).
Your courtesy is appreciated, though.
But talk to your parents. Please. Likewise for flyerboy.
I can’t stop either of you. This is friendly advice only.
how old are you?
reluctant
Danger! Danger! Will Robinson!
Say what?I just asked him how old he was I didn’t harrass him or anything.
reluctant i barely remeber some thing from highschool about him and i found this http://www.cals.ncsu.edu/agexed/aee501/mann.html bu
bye far he wasnt the first humantiran that can be traced back to the itailian renesance out side of roma of course
God’s Girl:
I’m 47. Karen was just being playful, relax.
That’s a quote from ‘Lost in Space’. You’re too young to remember it. Old TV show (originally shot in B&W).
udonman:
You mean humanist?
I looked him up on Answers.com. Unitarian. So, not humanist. 1st atheist was Anaxagoras (possibly). But the term humanist dates back to the Renaissance, yes indeedy.
I meant that he started government- controlled public education.
I am turning 14 next month.
God’s Girl
Nevermind, sweetie. Inside joke.
Here’s some birthday advice: Start quesioning everything. Especially religion. You’re old enough to think rationally. Try it.
Reluctant
I gotta go, Babe. Yer on your own.
Love ya!
karen:
Love ya too.
Don’t let the rugrats bite (hehehehe).
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