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Title: Rising atheism in America puts 'religious right on the defensive'
Source: The Guardian (UK)
URL Source: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/201 ... theism-america-religious-right
Published: Oct 4, 2011
Author: Paul Harris
Post Date: 2011-10-04 16:12:24 by Original_Intent
Keywords: atheism, Israelism, false, idols
Views: 715
Comments: 19

Rising atheism in America puts 'religious right on the defensive'

High profile of faith-based politicians such as Michele Bachmann and Rick Perry masks a steady growth in secularism

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Rising atheism in America puts 'religious right on the defensive'

Actually I think I would reword the headline as: Christian NeoCon pseudo-Christian Right puts atheism on the rise

Why?

Because the support of grotesque and inexcusable crimes against humanity are increasingly being rejected. To use a perversion of the Christian faith as justification for murder and pillage is a real turn off. That does not mean that there is no God nor that religion is without value, but that the perversion of religion is what many people perceive as the truth of religion.

As for the atheist kooks all they really want to do is exactly what they accuse others of i.e., to FORCE their beliefs upon others. Freedom OF Religion is not the same as Freedom FROM Religion. The former is tolerance of differing beliefs and the latter is the enshrinement of intolerance of differing beliefs.

Original_Intent  posted on  2011-10-04   16:21:39 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#11. To: Original_Intent, again, you did it again (#1)

As for the atheist kooks all they really want to do is exactly what they accuse others of i.e., to FORCE their beliefs upon others. Freedom OF Religion is not the same as Freedom FROM Religion. The former is tolerance of differing beliefs and the latter is the enshrinement of intolerance of differing beliefs.

And your proof for that unsupported idiotic assertion is?

Freedom OF religion is the right to choose for yourself whether to have a religion or not, and to choose a path of ones choice. Christians do not like others to that freedom. Not having others validation of their beliefs scares them to death.

Freedom FROM religion is the right to be left alone by others trying to convert them, AND not to be forced to live by religious standards of other people. Christians do NOT like others to have that freedom. It is their mission in life to convert the world, by hook or by crook.

Then they wonder why they meet such resistance.

PSUSA2  posted on  2011-10-05   8:31:22 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


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Freedom FROM religion is the right to be left alone by others trying to convert them, AND not to be forced to live by religious standards of other people. Christians do NOT like others to have that freedom. It is their mission in life to convert the world, by hook or by crook.

i think you have it ass-backwards.

Feds' rhetoric imperils Christian values, beliefs

1/5/2011 4:15:00 AMBookmark and Share

christ cross banA California-based organization has released its annual list of anti-Christian acts in America for 2010 -- a list determined through an online poll.

The list [ http://defendchristians.org/comm...-christian-events-in-2010 ] included stories like the Department of Homeland Security's report on "Rightwing Extremism," which labeled conservative Christians as potential terrorists -- or when police officers were called to a middle school in Kentucky to stop eighth-graders from praying during lunch for a student whose mother was tragically killed.

The number-one anti-Christian event in 2010, according to the poll's final tally, was the continued push for passage of the Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA) -- a bill that, if made law, would force ministries to hire individuals who oppose their beliefs or who live in open defiance of their values.

Gary CassDr. Gary Cass, president and CEO of http://DefendChristians.org, says while the actions on the list are not as egregious as incidents in other parts of world, Christians should be concerned when anti-Christian rhetoric comes from political leaders.

"Attacks are real; the discrimination is growing; the threats are not just rhetorical now -- some of them have even resulted in physical violence," Cass shares. "And probably the most ominous thing is that some of the threats are now coming to us directly from the government.".......

http://www.onenewsnow.com/Persecution/Default.aspx?id=1266282

see also "Now It Is Legal for the Government to Kill Christians" [two of them. one by Dr. Lorraine Day and one by Congressman William Dannemeyer] at takebackourrights.com [or .org?]

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