Comments on: A Secular Novelist’s Response to the Vatican’s Easter Day Message http://atheists.org/blog/2007/04/11/a_secularist_novelist_s_response_to_the A Blog of Atheist Thought Fri, 10 Feb 2012 10:05:55 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: TXatheist http://atheists.org/blog/2007/04/11/a_secularist_novelist_s_response_to_the/comment-page-1#comment-57085 TXatheist Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-57085 [quote]When I am asked to respect other people's faith, I actually cannot do that, because I can have no idea of what they are talking about[/quote]<br /> <br /> Couldn't agree more. <br /> <br /> [quote]When the US was founded, there was a reason that the framers of the Constitution declared that, "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof". They were not talking about faith--they had, however, seen what religious wars did to Europe, and they also knew that they themselves held a variety of faiths.To wed the government to a particular religion was, I suspect, simply too dangerous and unwise given the passion of faith and the power of churches[/quote]<br /> <br /> A good lesson for all kids to learn about US history. I do like Huffington's distinction between faith(individual) and religion(collective). [quote]When I am asked to respect other people’s faith, I actually cannot do that, because I can have no idea of what they are talking about[/quote]

Couldn’t agree more.

[quote]When the US was founded, there was a reason that the framers of the Constitution declared that, “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof”. They were not talking about faith–they had, however, seen what religious wars did to Europe, and they also knew that they themselves held a variety of faiths.To wed the government to a particular religion was, I suspect, simply too dangerous and unwise given the passion of faith and the power of churches[/quote]

A good lesson for all kids to learn about US history. I do like Huffington’s distinction between faith(individual) and religion(collective).

]]> By: reedbraden http://atheists.org/blog/2007/04/11/a_secularist_novelist_s_response_to_the/comment-page-1#comment-57086 reedbraden Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-57086 Maybe with all of this conversion and reconversion going on, things will keep getting lodt in translation and they'll eventually neutralize themselves into one religion whose main principle is "Don't overfeed the cat."<br /> <br /> They'd be so docile we could take them out with a butter knife or even a pair of nail clippers.<br /> <br /> But would we even need to worry about Skinny-Cat-ism, or can we coexist with them?<br /> <br /> I say we let them convert and reconvert the masses all they want to... maybe they'll become useless like a tape that's been recorded over too many times and is just a blue screen and a loud beep.<br /> <br /> Blue, beeping Judeo-Christ-Muslim-ists. Maybe with all of this conversion and reconversion going on, things will keep getting lodt in translation and they’ll eventually neutralize themselves into one religion whose main principle is “Don’t overfeed the cat.”

They’d be so docile we could take them out with a butter knife or even a pair of nail clippers.

But would we even need to worry about Skinny-Cat-ism, or can we coexist with them?

I say we let them convert and reconvert the masses all they want to… maybe they’ll become useless like a tape that’s been recorded over too many times and is just a blue screen and a loud beep.

Blue, beeping Judeo-Christ-Muslim-ists.

]]> By: reedbraden http://atheists.org/blog/2007/04/11/a_secularist_novelist_s_response_to_the/comment-page-1#comment-57087 reedbraden Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-57087 lost in translation* lost in translation*

]]> By: bud http://atheists.org/blog/2007/04/11/a_secularist_novelist_s_response_to_the/comment-page-1#comment-57088 bud Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-57088 anyone here know what "hacked" means. i was on the "church of reality" discussion board & got hacked. or so it says when i try to log in. don't know if it was the administration unhappy with my conversation or someone hacking the whole website. my subject is world peace and ways & means of achieving it, plus the (to me)infinite potential of human intelligence. if or when it is directed to improvement of the human condition as opposed to the machines of our endless wars. hard to find anyone to even accept the possibility of a world without war or maybe even death. to far out?? maybe. it's just i got this crazy idea that anything that can be imagined by the human mind can be achieved. so even if no one here can help me with the hacking thing maybe there's someone interested in discussing world peace?? anyone here know what “hacked” means. i was on the “church of reality” discussion board & got hacked. or so it says when i try to log in. don’t know if it was the administration unhappy with my conversation or someone hacking the whole website. my subject is world peace and ways & means of achieving it, plus the (to me)infinite potential of human intelligence. if or when it is directed to improvement of the human condition as opposed to the machines of our endless wars. hard to find anyone to even accept the possibility of a world without war or maybe even death. to far out?? maybe. it’s just i got this crazy idea that anything that can be imagined by the human mind can be achieved. so even if no one here can help me with the hacking thing maybe there’s someone interested in discussing world peace??

]]> By: karen http://atheists.org/blog/2007/04/11/a_secularist_novelist_s_response_to_the/comment-page-1#comment-57089 karen Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-57089 bud<br /> Can't stay and talk right now; I'm out the door to an appt.<br /> But I tried the church of reality discussion board and also got the hacked message. I would guess someone has got into their system. There was a message that they should have updated. I assume that means their security protection.<br /> <br /> Anyway, peace is cool. Good message, hard to get past the $$$ war machine. bud
Can’t stay and talk right now; I’m out the door to an appt.
But I tried the church of reality discussion board and also got the hacked message. I would guess someone has got into their system. There was a message that they should have updated. I assume that means their security protection.

Anyway, peace is cool. Good message, hard to get past the $$$ war machine.

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