North Carolina Passes Amendment Banning Same-sex Unions

[Ronin]

Most atheists I know would have their clocked cleaned if they were to argue with any actual theologian

The idea that finding a contradiciton in a book of allegory somehow gives you some special knoweledge is insane.

I also probably couldn´t hold my own in a discussion about Lord of the Rings with someone who reads it obsessionally......both are still just people who know a book really well.

[Strike For The South]

I also probably couldn´t hold my own in a discussion about Lord of the Rings with someone who reads it obsessionally......both are still just people who know a book really well.

But then why would I trust your opinion on Lord of the Rings to be more valid than avid readers?

Regardless of wether there is the christian conception of God, the fact remains on the ground, Christendom has provided the parameters for our morality and continues to do so. Many people who claim that they reject christianity (usually claiming humanism) really only permit luxries or decadance that people in the past could not afford to.

"That book" is the foundation of Western thought. Even our pre-exsisting scholarly works are translated and interpeted within a christian frame. Everything that came after it is colored by it, including Lord Of The Rings.

For me the higher power bit is really irrelavant.

As far as I know, no one is being hurt by atheism. I do not know of any kids who have killed themselves because they were told that a nonexistent god hates them or that they are going to a nonexistent hell.

I think there is something to be said for rising depression rates and the sense of a lack of purpose in the Western world. A lack of a God does not beget anything other than just that.