6th February 2010
“For the church to criticize secular society while at the same time not looking in any way at itself for most people this is a reason they turn away from it. There's a huge credibility problem, and I wonder if they're capable of recognizing how much their currency is devalued. They don't have any moral authority.”
February 6th, 2010 at 2:42
I would make the same case for many atheists. Well it is true that organized religion (by the church i am assuming that O’Gorman is referring to that of Rome) has many crimes and lapses of the morality that they preach, it is ironic that some atheists seem to suffer from the same case of hypocrisy, and while they may have moral “currency” now, it is because they have just acquired it and are spending it rather quickly.
February 6th, 2010 at 3:46
Atheists do not claim to have all the answers, they do claim (and show) that the people who do, don’t. If you follow.
February 6th, 2010 at 4:23
Hi Wam-Mnebu
I’m not sure I quite follow your reasoning. If you’re grouping atheists as some sort of “organization” then perhaps you have a point, but this is not what atheists strive for or how they associate. Atheists speak in unison on one point and one point only: the rejection of the belief in any god. Apart from that they may (and probably do) disagree on any number of other topics.
I believe it’s illogical to think that atheists have had to “gain” credibility in the first place, as atheism is the default setting in life (remember, we’re all born atheist). In this sense, then, this AQOTD is really just stating that religion is losing any “moral authority” it has fooled people into believing it had and people are finally recognizing the saneness of their natural state.
February 6th, 2010 at 5:55
“(remember, we’re all born atheist)”
Simply uttering words.Baseless quote.
February 6th, 2010 at 8:38
And then there was a whisper of idiocy that blew through the blog….
February 6th, 2010 at 10:05
Wam. Nicely worded but it makes no sense. How exactly are some atheists hypocrites? When did we inherit this moral currency and how are we ‘spending it quickly’?
February 6th, 2010 at 14:20
Solomon, why is Greg’s post “We’re all born atheist” baseless? How can you be born believing anything, let alone an organized delusion?
Solomon please answer this question: What belief are we born with?
February 6th, 2010 at 18:04
Islam is in your genes then Solomon? Or does it just happen to be the religion you were brought up with?
What a stroke of luck you were born into the ONE TRUE religion! Just think what would have happened if you had been born into a Christian or Hindu family. Through no fault of your own you would be burning in hell for eternity thanks to Allah the merciful.
February 6th, 2010 at 21:04
Correct me should I be wrong. Do not both leading churches of truth base their iron grip of control on the human condition from a strong stance of pedophilia? The cult of Rome rapes kids as a right of the priesthood and the church of the pedophile suppresses all women’s rights and stones little girls and women when they get raped by its followers.
February 6th, 2010 at 21:38
MagicAintReal
Why waste time on solomon as the writer is a buffoon. To the local tribesman she spouts the venom they are forced to have to listen to “all day long” and believe in on the surface or just be killed. When confronted with the truth and even reality, their silence and/or their stupidity betray them as the village idiots. How common a practice with all who spout this anti-human poison when the truth runs up against their magical fairytales?
February 6th, 2010 at 22:08
I’m not sure how atheists can be squandering their “moral authority”. The default position of the shoutier elements of religion is that atheists have no morals at all, and I’m not sure that the truth, that atheists are as moral as anyone else, is out there yet.
Troll feeding time: Of course we are all born atheist, or at least we are born without a preconception, as to disbelieve in gods I guess someone has to suggest they exist in the first place. We are certainly not born religious.
February 7th, 2010 at 0:37
Perhaps sol means when we are all born we are gullible. You loose that as you learn about life. If you can not loose that gullibility relegion claims you as one of their own. Something about a sucker being born every minute.
February 7th, 2010 at 2:55
How many times has the Brooklyn Bridge sold?
February 7th, 2010 at 5:13
Hey…Hoo…all you Atheist out there,
We all humans are born clean, free of sins, free of everything.We are given the heart and the brain to weight between the right & wrong.Its what we encounter through our lives that colores what sort of human we are going to be.So being born clean have nothing to do whatsoever of being born an Atheists. See how you all be easily fooled when some dude brings out that subject.
February 7th, 2010 at 20:27
To all the Islamists out there
Aren’t you just thrilled to have an idiot like Solomon as your spokesperson?
LOL! What a failure she is!
Sincerely
Mohammed. Kill infidels in my name, etc, etc.
February 8th, 2010 at 2:31
A statement coming from the mouth of an Atheists.Don’t bother. Have no significant or profound effect.
February 8th, 2010 at 7:06
Poor Solomon. You are such a pathetic woman.
February 16th, 2010 at 20:35
Billboard I would like to see:
You better love me, or else I will torture you for billions of years.
God
http://www.imagechicken.com/viewpic.php?p=1266351365060429700&x=jpg
February 17th, 2010 at 15:29
Better link: http://www.imagechicken.com/uploads/1266351365060429700.jpg