Leave a comment with your name below to wish her a happy birthday! Do I have to tie in abortion to get you guys to comment?
Bri,
You will be happy to know, you are at the age of consent in the following areas: parts of australia, alaska, russia, great britain, and most importantly…. NEVADA!
Only joking bri, but seriously, Happy Sweet sixteenth!!
I love that quote. I would post my seminar response, but it’s not that good. So onto the next topic:
Atheism vs Satanism
There is a common misconception going around that atheists are immoral satan-worshipers. I’m here to clear these up.
First off I’d like to point out that if you don’t believe in God (atheist), then you don’t believe in the devil (Christian) either, so how can an atheist be a satanist? Right. It doesn’t make any logical sense.
Now let’s tackle the morality issue. Tell me, what makes a person immoral? The ten commandments:
ONE: ‘You shall have no other gods before Me.’
TWO: ‘You shall not make for yourself a carved image–any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth.’
THREE: ‘You shall not take the name of the LORD your God in vain.’
FOUR: ‘Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy.’
FIVE: ‘Honor your father and your mother.’
SIX: ‘You shall not murder.’
SEVEN: ‘You shall not commit adultery.’
EIGHT: ‘You shall not steal.’
NINE: ‘You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.’
TEN: ‘You shall not covet your neighbor’s house; you shall not covet your neighbor’s wife, nor his male servant, nor his female servant, nor his ox, nor his donkey, nor anything that is your neighbor’s.’
Have you never heard of an atheist who didn’t lie, steal, covet, commit adultery, murder, refuse to honor their parents, say “God” in vain, or bear false witness against their neighbor? And since they don’t believe in any gods, the first two he mentioned aren’t relevant. Religion doesn’t determine morality. Sure, religion has a lot of good messages concerning this issue, but it doesn’t directly make someone moral. In fact, I might go as far as say that sometimes non-religious folk can be more moral than theists, because no one is telling them to be moral. They do it because they want to, not because they’re afraid of being damned to eternal sunburns.
(Moo-v-er-ee-ish-ness-ee) (noun) : Bri’s Giant Nose
Anyways. Since MoMo beat me to the punch (which is ironic becuse I had written up a little piece of the seperation of church and state yesterday but hadn’t posted it), I guess I’m the second person to put something up at that topic. But Kudos to MoMo for thinking in the same frame of mind.
“…the path of true piety is so plain as to require but little political direction”
– George Washingon.
Seperation of Church and State. I don’t think it exists anymore. Religion has no place in politics, and yet it is becoming the biggest part. I’ve head in the halls many things relating to this issue. People hate Romney because he’s Mormon and Obama because they think he’s Muslim. (For the record, he isn’t, but does it matter anyways?)And people support Huckabee many times on just the grounds that he is, in fact, a Christian. How are these justifications for presidential candidates?
I, for one, don’t care what religion a candidate is, and no one else should either. But they do. Religion is a personal thing, it has no place in politics, like I mentioned before. The religion of a candidate shouldn’t have an effect, since that’s not the important part of a campaign. The important part is the issues. How are they going to make the country better? How are they going to improve the economy? What are their thoughts on improving foreign policy? But no, what the American public wants to know is how spiritual the candidate is. How is knowing what the religion of your candidate going to improve the country?