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Permalink Reply by oracle on June 30, 2011 at 12:56pm

Christians in name only. Continue to be good for goodness sake because we can.

 

I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.

       - Mohandas Gandhi

Permalink Reply by dr kellie on June 30, 2011 at 12:57pm

Good for you.  I hope he makes it through.

Permalink Reply by The Secular One on June 30, 2011 at 1:19pm

Good luck to both of you!

Permalink Reply by ROMAN ROMACH on June 30, 2011 at 1:19pm

 

Proof that good humans do exist.  Thanks.

 

Permalink Reply by Natalie A Sera on June 30, 2011 at 2:29pm

Maybe because you're truly human, and they're not? Keep up the good work, sweetie -- and know you're appreciated! :-)

Permalink Reply by Reggie Thorpe on June 30, 2011 at 4:32pm

ther so judgemental its sickening........

Permalink Reply by Sheila on June 30, 2011 at 4:35pm

Some Christians are only nice when you are doing what they want or asking for forgiveness from God for all your "sins". As atheists/humanists we are compelled to help because we know it's the right thing to do. Thanks for being a stand up kind of guy! Hope your friend gets better.

Permalink Reply by big_dan44 on July 9, 2011 at 1:55am

x2 You are only capable of goodness when it fits into their narrow worldview... Morality and religion rarely coexist.

Permalink Reply by Tom Sarbeck on June 30, 2011 at 10:43pm

Does anyone need Xian morality more than the typical Xian?

 

Permalink Reply by Jack Knudson on June 30, 2011 at 11:17pm

Hello Marco

 

. . ."but, by god", . . . Coming from an atheist, even if you don't mean it, is something I can't quite understand.  I know it's just an expression whose meaning infers that the person saying it has a strong commitment. However, I wouldn't have to think twice about using it. How could you have overlooked it? However, if you meant to use the expression in some ironic way, well then maybe that's OK. What did you mean?

 

Recently in an email I used the word "blessed" in connection with the healthy genes I've inherited. I qualified its use by indicating in parentheses that I didn't mean it in any religious sense. 

 

Whatcha think?

 

Cheers,

Jack

Permalink Reply by Natalie A Sera on July 1, 2011 at 12:37am

I think it would be lots of fun to think up a dictionary for atheists/agnostics of words to substitute for religious cliches. "By Jove" works as well as "by god" for me, because I believe in neither of them, and "by Jove" has a nice Renaissance sound to it. Or maybe "by all that is within me" (think about that!) -- I dunno, but I think all the creative minds on here could really come up with a picturesque stack of words! And instead of "blessed", I would say "grateful" because I'm not specifying who or what I'm grateful to -- just "the luck"!

Permalink Reply by Susan Stanko on July 1, 2011 at 7:52am

I am not sure why some atheists feel the nee to shun perfectly good expressions because it mentions something non-existent.  So what?  I am not going to change the way I express myself just because I am an atheist.  Do these atheists agree with theists who claim that the founding fathers were Christian because they ended there letters with "In the year of out lord".

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