Comments on: Atheism The Undiscovered Bias

By: christian

christian — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 18:20:07 +0000

First off let me say that i love your blog http://www.whereisyourgod.com a lot
now.. back to the post haha
I cant say that i agree with what you typed up… care to explain deeper?

By: christian

christian — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 17:50:43 +0000

First off let me say that i really like your site http://www.whereisyourgod.com a lot
now.. back to the post hehe
I cant say that i agree with what you wrote… care to clear things up for me?

By: Alex

Alex — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 06:06:02 +0000

Your blog is interesting!

Keep up the good work!

By: Sara

Sara — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 18:34:05 +0000

Thank you, Rob H, for pointing out that various “founding fathers” were not Christians. This is NOT a country founded in the name of any god and hopefully will never become some sort of theocracy. George Bush Sr. again proves himself highly intelligent and ever so eloquent.

As an atheist, I wouldn’t call myself a patriot. I am glad to have been born into a country where luxuries are available to me, but I won’t go out of my way to support a country that treats me as though I’m some sort of satanic maniac.

By: Rob H

Rob H — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 04:58:07 +0000

I just don’t like to see brethren implying that the idiotic claims of our current crop of historic revisionist have any validity whatsoever, like this is a christian nation or that in god we trust belongs on our currency. Keep up the fight, brother, never give an inch.

By: Brandon

Brandon — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 01:53:44 +0000

You are right and I know what deism is. My main point was that every single president believed in some type of god and that an atheist has never been in office or at least could never be open about it and expect to win.

By: Rob H

Rob H — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 22:32:11 +0000

Ignorance alert: “Every single president thus far has been an older white male of Christian belief”. Man, you need to do some serious reading, you’ve bought into a fundy assertion. Check out the writings of Jefferson, Washington, and Lincoln, just for a start. And these are just the all-stars. Look up what deism is, and then realize that for the founders to say they were atheist would have been severely detrimental, the most they could do is call themselves deists. Considering that moral christians executed people for this attitude for centuries, it was the best they could do at their time. Don’t believe the hype, READ! The church doesn’t kill you for it any more!

By: Paul

Paul — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 04:22:03 +0000

Thanks for pointing that out Michael, i do agree with you again. I was more referring to events such as the crusades, 9/11, arguably the Iraq War (see some quotes from ol’ GW on that one). And although the communists were “bad” they were nothing compared to the countless other authorities killing in the name of God. And do note that i said “most”, definitely not all. Not all atheists of course are good people. Thanks for pointing that out.

Hopefully an atheist does come into power in the near future. I think it would do the U.S. a lot of good to see what an atheist can do. And that most of us aren’t satanic, devil worshiping creatures. Unfortunately, with the power the evangelicals have over the government/votes i don’t really see this happening anytime soon. But who knows, maybe a candidate will lie about his/her religion (not that they would ever lie about anything) and reveal it later…hmmm that would make for an interesting time. Especially if the presidency was a success. One can only hope.

By: Brandon

Brandon — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 21:28:47 +0000

An important distinction though is the cause of atrocities. Religion in itself breeds hate and prideful bias against anybody else who does not share the same beliefs. Atheism is simply not aligning yourself with any one of these belief systems. What I mean is that religion can cause people to do bad things but atheism in itself cannot.

Now I’m not saying that atheists are better people or that Christians are worst. When it comes down to it anybody, regardless of religious ideology, can be good or bad people. I’m only saying that having a belief system that separates your group of people from another group of people will cause conflict and not having these segregated beliefs will do very little to your moral ideas.

Another important thing to remember is that religion and morals go hand in hand, at least thats what religious people say or believe. Atheists don’t draw any morals based on simply ‘not believing in god’, it is separate for us and that is the difference.

By: Michael Spitler

Michael Spitler — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 21:10:05 +0000

>> However, most major conflicts in history, from thousands of years ago to present day, are based on religion. The most horrific atrocities this world has ever seen have been done in the name of religion. <<

I would be very careful using that argument, because Christian Apologists like D’Souza can turn it right around and point out the slaughters perpetrated by “atheistic” regimes in recent history, such as the communists. Religion is but one form of irrationality, there are also ideologies that practice atheism that have also led to mass slaughter. The issue is rationality versus irrationality, not atheism versus religion. Though you couldn’t call the Founders atheists, they were far more reasonable than the crusaders that sacked Jerusalem. As a result, the country they founded was far freer than any theocracy of the Medieval period. Unfortunately, history has yet to see a regime run by rational atheists to prove the theists wrong. It doesn’t mean it couldn’t happen in the future though.