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The Atheist Response to Sandy Hook

Ellen_L Wrote: Jan 15, 2013 7:08 AM

Why do so many of you think that all atheists think alike? Do all Christians believe the same things? Can one speak for all? People do not even agree with one another about what they mean by God. How can you determine what an atheist is if you don't agree with what God is? No one knows another person's pain in any exact way, we only know what we might feel in the same situation. We do not know what others mean by their theological ideas, we can only guess. I suspect most folks have only a vague idea what they themselves mean by them. It is one thing to judge the words and actions of others and another to demonize them based on what you think they might think. And that works both ways. Whatever happened to the right to one's beliefs?

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annfan_777 Wrote: Jan 15, 2013 7:20 AM

We don't assume that atheists think alike. We have concluded that you are unwilling to do much thinking at all.

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Steve970 Wrote: Jan 15, 2013 9:49 PM

In order to be a theist, you have to rely on blind faith instead of thinking. Not a wise course.

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The Atheist Response to Sandy Hook

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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