Atheists and christmas

[Snee]

I agree it's bad when christians do it, but this guy was a self-proclaimed atheist, putting someone else down for downloading stuff (ie 'stealing' ) whilst mentioning they were christian.

Ah I misunderstood, you were talking about a non believer making the statement. Go ahead, make a dismissing remark about me being Texan, if it helps you feel superior

I've never needed an excuse before :I'dusethatwinkingsmileyherebutitlookslikeastrokevictim:

Not being privy to the incident I can't really comment other than to say while the statement was IMO incorrect as you don't have to be without sin, you simply need to accept Jesus as your savior to be a Christian, I'm sure someone will argue that point but it's my raising, I don't see pointing out the breaking of the commandments as controversial if the discussion was was about religious.

I believe his exact meaning was something along the line of 'everyone has to follow a religion exactly the same or else they're not following the same religion'. It's not that important, though.

I can see how the "get out clauses" and the "God does not have to prove himself" would be infuriating to anyone opposing the solidity of faith.

I think it's funny, myself. Bit like God not having to prove he/she/it is there, and either way that'd mean people didn't have to believe, and you have to have faith to be let into heaven.

I can imagine how it might have sort of shut down any pesky church-goers who might have raised the issue, back in the day.

'You don't like it? FINE. Burn in hell.'

[ugk4life]

i wonder what grade i'd get if i put a couple of these :p and few in my eng. lit. paper. Aw shucks, who am i kiddin', i'm just lil ol' texan.

again, no issue w/ the dictionary, just the folks who misuse it to prove a point. ok, let me break it down in ruska or rusky or what ever language:

atheism /= a cause... just folks who don't believe in god
atheism /= a principle... just folks who don't believe in god
atheism /= a system of tenets... just folks who don't believe in god
atheism /= a quality,custom or thing, blah, blah... just folks who don't believe in god

u lose again.

Yes, I lose at the whole quote-a-dictionary-and-then-arguing-with-the-definition-from-it-and-then-claiming-everyone-else-is-wrong-and-not-the-dictionary-containing-the-definition-I'm-arguing-about contest. It might be because I'm not mad as a box of frogs. Woe is I.

yes we all understand you know how to use a hyphen. too bad u fail at rebutting anything i just laid out for ya. atheism-does-not-fit-any-of-the-criteria-in-the-definition. see what i did there?

"ribit-ribit, hop-hop"

[bigboab]

I'm going with 'didn't read all of it', then.

yeah, u sure didn't read all of it b/c atheism does fit anything u highlighted, especially if u read the rest of the description. if atheism is a religion i guess football in texas is religion too. nice try dr. snee, maybe next time!

I heard a fellow in Nashville state, 'You can always tell a Texan - NOTHING'. I now see what he meant.

[devilsadvocate]

Oats is oats, the only difference is which end of the horse you look at them from

[ugk4life]

I heard a fellow in Nashville state, 'You can always tell a Texan - NOTHING'. I now see what he meant.

a southerner making fun of another southerner. that's funny! oh yeah, what happened to our discussion about atheism being religion? i guess this has turned into a high-jacked insults thread. too bad u aren't adding anything to the thread except spam.

[bigboab]

I heard a fellow in Nashville state, 'You can always tell a Texan - NOTHING'. I now see what he meant.

a southerner making fun of another southerner. that's funny! oh yeah, what happened to our discussion about atheism being religion? i guess this has turned into a high-jacked insults thread. too bad u aren't adding anything to the thread except spam.

I thought we agreed to disagree. Real, not internet, dictionaries excepted.

[ugk4life]

a southerner making fun of another southerner. that's funny! oh yeah, what happened to our discussion about atheism being religion? i guess this has turned into a high-jacked insults thread. too bad u aren't adding anything to the thread except spam.

I thought we agreed to disagree. Real, not internet, dictionaries excepted.

when did merriam-webster's become a "fake" dictionary..lol. an didn't u quote from that "fake" dictionary. to tell u the truth, the hard-back dictionary probably not as up-to-date. oh well, says the guy that's using the internet to post on a forum!

[bigboab]

I thought we agreed to disagree. Real, not internet, dictionaries excepted.

when did merriam-webster's become a "fake" dictionary..lol. an didn't u quote from that "fake" dictionary. to tell u the truth, the hard-back dictionary probably not as up-to-date. oh well, says the guy that's using the internet to post on a forum!

A lot of dictionaries on the internet are not exact copies of the original. Even allowing for them being correct, they can be altered by the poster. I DID NOT quote from a 'fake' dictionary. I quoted from my own copy of Websters Third. Sorry about the qaulity of the pic, just took it to show that I have them. The white books are Websters Third. Yes, I agree that dictionaries can be updated. Updating does not exclude the original definition, it only adds recent usage of the words in a different context, as in Gay having a completely different meaning from the original definition. Just an example.

[j2k4]

After all that, I find myself wondering - in this age of flexo-bendy, free-floating word definitions - why anyone professing a concurrent stance of non-atheism while would go to such great lengths to deny others the opportunity to bend the word 'religion' just a wee bit in aid of free expression.

Baffling.

[devilsadvocate]

Such a shame that with that wonderful looking set of encyclopedia you failed to read up on load bearing limits for book shelves