Comments on: Sickened. http://atheists.org/blog/2007/10/16/sickened A Blog of Atheist Thought Fri, 10 Feb 2012 03:47:55 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: http://atheists.org/blog/2007/10/16/sickened/comment-page-1#comment-68215 Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-68215 Wow Dave...feeling bullied yourself?<br /> <br /> Boy did you miss the entire question raised by this article...all he did was mention facts...<br /> <br /> Instead of wondering why so many of our kids are being killed, you have to play the victim and take the low road...again...and try to twist it around to finding faults with christian kids...<br /> <br /> Stop being such a whimp and address the problem...<br /> <br /> Why has school violence reached such epidemic proportions...?<br /> <br /> What are the solutions...?<br /> <br /> Wow Dave…feeling bullied yourself?

Boy did you miss the entire question raised by this article…all he did was mention facts…

Instead of wondering why so many of our kids are being killed, you have to play the victim and take the low road…again…and try to twist it around to finding faults with christian kids…

Stop being such a whimp and address the problem…

Why has school violence reached such epidemic proportions…?

What are the solutions…?

]]> By: http://atheists.org/blog/2007/10/16/sickened/comment-page-1#comment-68216 Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-68216 And now a contest for listing the greatest number of shootings...???<br /> <br /> YIKES...<br /> <br /> How about a contest for the best explanation and solution to the problem... And now a contest for listing the greatest number of shootings…???

YIKES…

How about a contest for the best explanation and solution to the problem…

]]> By: BobC http://atheists.org/blog/2007/10/16/sickened/comment-page-1#comment-68218 BobC Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-68218 Here's the problem: The 14 year old nutjob "threatened to stab everybody". "We didn't think nothing of it."<br /> <br /> The article has some good news:<br /> <br /> "A recent survey, 'The Decline of Religious Identity in the United States,' found that 16% surveyed declined to identify with a particular faith, up from less than 10% in the early '90s."<br /> <br /> This is an improvement but it's still disgraceful. It means 84% of Americans still believe there's an invisible man in the sky. It means the vast majority of Americans are mentally ill.<br /> <br /> It really doesn't matter who is doing all the killing in America. Violent people are not violent because they believe or don't believe in a magic man. Violent people are violent because they are assholes. Here’s the problem: The 14 year old nutjob “threatened to stab everybody”. “We didn’t think nothing of it.”

The article has some good news:

“A recent survey, ‘The Decline of Religious Identity in the United States,’ found that 16% surveyed declined to identify with a particular faith, up from less than 10% in the early ’90s.”

This is an improvement but it’s still disgraceful. It means 84% of Americans still believe there’s an invisible man in the sky. It means the vast majority of Americans are mentally ill.

It really doesn’t matter who is doing all the killing in America. Violent people are not violent because they believe or don’t believe in a magic man. Violent people are violent because they are assholes.

]]> By: 3E8 http://atheists.org/blog/2007/10/16/sickened/comment-page-1#comment-68219 3E8 Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-68219 BobC, not exactly. Violent people are violent because there's an aggressive part of their brain that has a need to fight back (y'know, to survive in an ongoingly uncivilized world). It's a natural part of our evolution. Luckily, for 16% of us, we have the aptitude to make this discernment. Unfortunately, we're vastly outnumbered by folks who still adhere to a cultural legacy that the world is 6000 yrs old and there's an invisible dude in the sky watching us spank it off in the shower. This inability for 84% of us to understand our nature makes us subject to ITS will (instead of our own) and the world thus sadly still keeps a certain degree of uncivility. Nice to hear it's improving by 10% each decade, but I'm sure that as the 84% becomes smaller and smaller, its constituents become more ignorant (like phreedm) and violent (like Adam Gadahn). <br /> <br /> Don't let the number fool ya, tough times ahead. BobC, not exactly. Violent people are violent because there’s an aggressive part of their brain that has a need to fight back (y’know, to survive in an ongoingly uncivilized world). It’s a natural part of our evolution. Luckily, for 16% of us, we have the aptitude to make this discernment. Unfortunately, we’re vastly outnumbered by folks who still adhere to a cultural legacy that the world is 6000 yrs old and there’s an invisible dude in the sky watching us spank it off in the shower. This inability for 84% of us to understand our nature makes us subject to ITS will (instead of our own) and the world thus sadly still keeps a certain degree of uncivility. Nice to hear it’s improving by 10% each decade, but I’m sure that as the 84% becomes smaller and smaller, its constituents become more ignorant (like phreedm) and violent (like Adam Gadahn).

Don’t let the number fool ya, tough times ahead.

]]> By: Dangerman http://atheists.org/blog/2007/10/16/sickened/comment-page-1#comment-68221 Dangerman Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-68221 I'd say just going off the law of averages that 84% of crimes commited by Americans are commited by people of some religion. The only "atheists" I've seen that are more prone to violence and general anarchy are what I have dubbed the "attention atheists". The teenage rebel who because an atheist because the poor kid's parents are forcing christianity down his/her throat. I had a ultra-fundy girlfriend who cheated on me when she went through an "atheism phase" and decided that because there's no god then I can do whatever. I do not consider these people atheists in the slightest. A christian making a rebelious statement or someone who had ultra-bible fundamentals forced upon them and snapped, that's all those people are. Since atheists have to answer the right/wrong morality question on their own, they're less likely to break law and do the wrong thing. (unless you count homosexual rights, abortion, tolerance, and upholding the constitution as wrong, which most christians do) <br /> <br /> ***OFF TOPIC***<br /> I just got back from a weekend in Rome and got blessed by the pope! lol. The irony. It was slightly disturbing to see the thousands of people bowing to his will as he waved out of a window. Gave me a flash of a video from late 1930s Germany. Ring any bells? I’d say just going off the law of averages that 84% of crimes commited by Americans are commited by people of some religion. The only “atheists” I’ve seen that are more prone to violence and general anarchy are what I have dubbed the “attention atheists”. The teenage rebel who because an atheist because the poor kid’s parents are forcing christianity down his/her throat. I had a ultra-fundy girlfriend who cheated on me when she went through an “atheism phase” and decided that because there’s no god then I can do whatever. I do not consider these people atheists in the slightest. A christian making a rebelious statement or someone who had ultra-bible fundamentals forced upon them and snapped, that’s all those people are. Since atheists have to answer the right/wrong morality question on their own, they’re less likely to break law and do the wrong thing. (unless you count homosexual rights, abortion, tolerance, and upholding the constitution as wrong, which most christians do)

***OFF TOPIC***
I just got back from a weekend in Rome and got blessed by the pope! lol. The irony. It was slightly disturbing to see the thousands of people bowing to his will as he waved out of a window. Gave me a flash of a video from late 1930s Germany. Ring any bells?

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