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A 10 year old girl was abducted and murdered in my town this week and Westboro wing nuts will be there to picket. They tweeted that she reaped what Missouri sowed.. So pathetic..

So what does the Westboro misguided idiots think they are sowing? God is pissed off about these idiots.

They think they are true "people of god", do they not? There is no question they are people with extremely great passion about the whole biblical story, with constitutional rights that allow them to demonstrate at will. I'll bet many of them will be packing pistols. Probably carry guns everywhere they go, and brag about it mightily! Killing their leader would be an act of terrorism. Or wait, what do they call it when a religious group is attacked? Whatever it is, I'm sure they are prepared for an OK corral type shoot out. God would want them to be, no doubt.

I'm atheist Paul. I sure as **** don't defend these people. I'm just pointing out the grounds that they stand on.

As far as I'm concerned..... it's ALL terrorism under the protection of the government.

STFU tool!

Its freedom OF religion...not FROM...nobody cares about you bragging about not believing about something.

Why is it guys like yourself and others here believe they're the ONLY ones who enjoy the use of their brain?? Without your dissemination I would have been......lost. It's pretty clear who they " think " they are and that you are one of the few who truly understands.......thanks for the explanation.

I would call it harassment, protected harassment. There is no legal, or smart way to get rid of them though.

I suppose we could get the USA version of those Ukrainian Cossack guards that were beating P$ssy Riot with the whips the other day.

The video was hilarious... had a bit of a Keystone Cops feel to it, with cossacks with short whips chasing masked girls with microphones around the little square.

Then there was some beatings.

Protestants suck !


wheel,

These people definitely ain't Protestant..

#17: C'mon Wheel, I'm Protestant and I wholly reject the Westboro group's tactics & theology.

There are lots of people in the church who call themselves "Christian" who give the rest of us a bad name.




Maybe I should herf with them...

99% of moslems give the rest a bad name . . .

I hate the fact that these fuqs are from Kansas.

But an amazing talking cat!

If everyone went around bragging about things that we DIDN'T believe in, would we have time to discuss anything else?


I don't believe in putting sugar in my coffee and I'm going to tell everyone I meet!

Or on a more practical level, your comment could be construed as justification for voicing opinions against gay marriage (for instance).

Oh goody! Is this where we pile on???
(giddy and clapping like Joe Besser aka the fa ggy Stooge)

I was responding to the statement as presented by Brewha.

I don't know anything about your tattoos.
At least nothing you can prove...

Thought you were piling on. Sorry.

It's too late, brother Brew.
I always get excited over nothing!

Yes – but that is not what I wrote.

Look at it this way. There is no real evidence on the god thing either way. You can’t prove he’s there, you can’t prove he’s not. Now you can say you don’t know – that would take zero conviction. But to assert that you believe ether of the two unknowns would take conviction. Would it not?

kill me now please

" It does take conviction to believe that there is no god."
-Brewha (from an above post)

You did say it.

And the only reason that there is "no evidence" that god doesn't exist is because you can't prove a negative.
Otherwise the evidence is quite clear. There is indeed NO proof.

Nobody ever tells an atheist "prove there is no god".
You may hear someone quote scripture to "prove" a point, but a non-believer is never called to task to show evidence.

It's called Faith for this very reason.


I don't fault you for not believing. But don't claim that you need conviction to do so because that's rubbish.

You seem to be confusing religion for faith.

And the "conviction" that your philosophers argued were likely speaking of long ago, when religious doctrine was considered fact, and when a religious schism could result in death or worse.

It may take courage to ADMIT to being an atheist.
But that's not the same as merely not believing in god.
Our friend Brewha believes that the simple act of "not believing" takes conviction.

As if the preponderance of zero hard facts could somehow compel a non-believer to require inner strength to remain steadfast in their non-belief.

Yes.
It's that ridiculous.

Actually I have seen many atheists present “evidence” against the existence god and gods. Their “evidence” is scientific. But it is a folly to use logic in the face of faith.

I understand now that you equate the word ‘conviction’ exclusively with faith in god. Sorry, I was using it more in the Funk and Wagnall meaning – “a firmly held belief or opinion”.

I never said there is no god. My conviction is that each of us knows god in his own way.