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The Atheist Response to Sandy Hook

Chukalukabus Wrote: Jan 15, 2013 10:52 AM
Just because you have agnostic tendencies on organized Christian religion, is by no means to be interpreted as a construct in those of uuse who believe such that we are not Christians. It has been my experiance that quite the opposite is true in reality. I'll save everyone here the bible quotes, but I will not spare the meaning of such. Man's purpose in life is to help his fellow man. In doing so, It will not only change you as a man, it will lead you to God. It is the natural coarse of just the ways thing work out. But it requires a rational being to do such. The war of the left is not just on Christianity, its target is a war on rational thinking. here very thing that Christianity has promotes as a tenet.
NCLaw441 Wrote: Jan 15, 2013 11:39 AM
You posted, in part: Man's purpose in life is to help his fellow man.
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If you a Christian, you do not believe that. Our purpose is to love God, worship God and do His will. That includes spreading the good news of the Gospel. Yes, we are to love one another and serve one another, but that is not our purpose in life.
Last week the New York Times published an opinion piece that offered atheism's response to the evil/tragedy in which 20 children and six adults were murdered at the Sandy Hook elementary school in Connecticut.

What prompted Susan Jacoby to write her piece was a colleague telling her that atheism "has nothing to offer when people are suffering."

She wrote the piece, "The Blessings of Atheism" ("It is Here and It is Now!" screams the subhead) to prove her colleague wrong by offering a consoling atheist alternative to religion's consoling belief in an afterlife. Atheists cannot believe that there is any...

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