The Blasphemy Challenge

[blankooie]

Check this video out : http://youtube.com/watch?v=bcbTJgeJrw0

Any one else think that the Fox News guy is a total asshole? Fucking A. You can have a radical Christian talk about a race the promotes the removal of religion. Should of picked a better interviewer.

Anyways - http://www.blasphemychallenge.com/ - What you guys think of that? I think its a pretty cool idea. Great way to outreach to people who dont want to be forced by family or other means into believing in something. I think I'll post a video on there soon.

Discuss.

I win.

*Rem

[mizled]

I hate topics that end with "discuss".

Any reporter from Fox News is a moron. Just look at O'Reilly.

your gay

discuss

McCarthyism, as you know directly affected those who lost their jobs, which is predicted to be 10,000 people. It also affected every day people such as teachers, professors, and principals. An example of this is when in the late 1950’s students at the University of Chicago made a petition to get a coffee-vending machine put in. Their colleagues refused to sign. The reason was not the one it should have been; not wanting a coffee machine installed. Instead the actual reason was because “they did not want to be associated with the allegedly radical students whose names were already on the document”(Schrecker, Ellen). This led to teachers and thinkers of all types to shrink back inside the box, trying to stay under the sweeping radar and staying as uncontroversial as possible. “A silent generation of students populated the nation’s campuses, while their professors shrank from teaching anything that might be construed as controversial”(Schrecker, Ellen). As you can see McCarthyism was much more serious than it seemed on the surface, and had adverse effects.

[Metaphysicist]

They'll probably hate me there for this, but I'm going to go out on a bit of a limb here and move this to My God, etc...

After watching the video though, I have to say that I completely disagree with the atheist. My mother raised me Christian, and although I am not sure whether I believe in God any more, it left me with a clear understanding of right and wrong and how to treat others.

I don't count it as an injustice at all. I believe my mother did the correct thing in giving me some kind of guidance in life.

Even if you don't believe in God, "Treat others as you would be treated." is still an incredibly valid message.

quote:Originally posted by FaceTheSlayer:

After watching the video though, I have to say that I completely disagree with the atheist. My mother raised me Christian, and although I am not sure whether I believe in God any more, it left me with a clear understanding of right and wrong and how to treat others.

I don't count it as an injustice at all. I believe my mother did the correct thing in giving me some kind of guidance in life.

Even if you don't believe in God, "Treat others as you would be treated." is still an incredibly valid message.

Interestingly enough, I was not raised religious and I, too, have a clear understanding of right and wrong and how to treat others.

edit: Personally, I agree with the atheist in that religion can be psychologically damaging to a certain extent, with everyone being affected in different ways, of course. He just comes off as a little overzealous.

[This message has been edited by bung (edited 01-30-2007).]

quote:Originally posted by bung:edit: Personally, I agree with the atheist in that religion can be psychologically damaging to a certain extent,

Hah! You are so spot on. The damage comes when you realize it is all probably fake. You grow up all your life with the "knowledge" that when you die there will be a pleasant little vacation spot waiting for you. You go through your life believing there is a loving god up there that is soooo compassionate that he became a man to suffer with us idiots and earn our salvation.

Once you let go and realize it's all probably nonsence life becomes dull, expectations are shattered, hope is lost. Everything you see is in shades of grey where there used to be color. You keep going through life with the ever-present hope that "god" will someday introduce himself and reassure you that everything is ok, you will see your lost loved ones again, you will get a final resting place deviod of sorrow, stress, sickness, etc. and full of bliss.

And in the end You just wish you were never taught religion in the first place.

Realizing heaven and god dont exist is a sad day.

[Hare_Geist]

I did that ages ago before I was aware of that website to prove that I really do not believe in Christianity.