It's the Christian Thing to Do

Sorry Torog, but as long as you religious folks keep telling me how to live my life on the grounds of morality, I will fight Christianity. When our laws are influenced by your religion then, something is wrong in America. You yourself should see the current going on's in the middle east. Its a prime example of why religion should have no influence on government and government no control of religion. So when the religious right start pulling off the "Holier then thou" attitude , you bet your ass the left will come out swinging. However if you want to live in your bible thumper community and practice your religion in peace, go right ahead. But don't force it on me by trying to make your religion law.

Religion, oh, religion. the root of all evil, right next to money. If more people were like the Indians that saw God in nature, there would be no cause for wars. God is all around us all the time, it is our inability to see this that has caused a need for religions. Religions profess their dogma to be the only truth. How many religions are there? But there is only one God. The Indians saw God in the landscape, the trees, the animals, all things in nature. They knew to take care of mother earth as it was a gift from the creator, "God". We have gone far away from those simple days and created religions so we can have wars over idealogies. The Indians (American) only fought over territory. The South American indians, are pretty much a peaceful lot as long as you don't infringe on their territory. We "saved" these savages in the name of Jesus and killed more with disease than we ever converted. According to Christian belief, If you aren't baptized in the name of the lord, you'll not get into heaven. So that lets out about 4 billion+ people. Are we so vain as to assume they will all descend into a firey lake called hell. Do the Indians that have not been converted go straight to hell. I think not. A creator would not destroy his creations just to make a point. I think religion needs to have some common sense pumped into it. Believe what you will, just don't condemn anyone that doesn't think like you!

As an atheist, I have nothing bad to say about faith in a high power- your choice. What she did was completely childish and uncalled for, but again, it's protected by the Constitution. Doesn't make it right. Personally, I think John Edwards is much too lukewarm to be a successful candidate for Pres.

But when hard-core Christian crusaders and others try to butt their way into politics and attempt to censor people- REGARDLESS of their beliefs, something needs to be done. We have a Constitution and a Bill Of Rights. If you want to call yourself a true American, you can't flip-flop, and bend the Amendments to what suits you best.

If you can express your own thoughts freely, there is no reason why others should censor theirs which disagree with you. It needed to be HIS personal choice to fire her. Not America's. HE has a choice to hire who he wants to work for him, and it's not really the public's business to demand he fire someone.

Again, I DO NOT CONDONE HER ACTIONS. I agree with her right to freedom of speech, but I disagree with her actions.

NO ONE HAS THE RIGHT NOT TO BE OFFENDED.


EDIT: And Torog, as for your "Atheists are responsible for more deaths than all of the world's religions, combined." statement, figure this out- Men are also more likely to kill than women, MUCH more likely than atheists. Does that make men evil? NO.

ATHEISM DOES NOT EQUAL A LACK OF MORALS. Nor does Christianity equal morality, either.