tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11516215.post3646779176125270626..comments2024-03-28T00:48:19.961-07:00Comments on Metacrock's Blog: Letter to an Atheist Named Alice RoseJoseph Hinman (Metacrock)http://www.blogger.com/profile/06957529748541493998noreply@blogger.comBlogger18125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11516215.post-31270479913196878752010-11-29T09:32:24.942-08:002010-11-29T09:32:24.942-08:00Isn't it wrong to say "atheists" ? T...Isn't it wrong to say "atheists" ? They are individuals, who have different characteristics. The only common thing in them is that they do not believe in god... I think everyone should choose for himself. And their choice should be RESPECTED. Stop making fun/arguing about religion. A person can be good or bad regardless of his religion.<br /><br /><b>open your eyes and look at the facts. They are making fun of us. they live to mock and ridicule Christians. There's a lot more going on there, don't be so naive. Atheism is a movement, it contains a hate group, and a larger movement based upon hating Christians.<br /><br />see my other blog:</b><br /><br /><a href="http://atheistwatch.blogspot.com/" rel="nofollow"><b>Atheistwatch</b></a><br /><br />P.S: You can't say christians are all the same. It's just not true.<br /><br /><b>I don't say atheists are all the same, but a huge portion of them are brain washed.</b><br /><br />Oh and another thing... I do not believe in god, despite the fact that my grandfather (and his father, and his father and so on) was a priest, my family is religious, and I understand, and studyed christianity's process, and beliefs(which isn't really necessary to form an opinion.)<br /><br /><b>Priests aren't supposed to marry, how could your father and grand father both be priests?</b><br /><br />I would really appreciate an answer, and if your interested, I would even tell you arguments to support my decision. I think I could tell you facts, that would "shake your spiritual world".<br /><br /><b>OK sure I'd be glad to discuss your arguments. But could you make them on my message board.</b><br /><br /><a href="http://www.doxa.ws/forum/" rel="nofollow">Doxa Froums</a><br /><br /><b>or on the front kpage of Metacorck's blog in the comment section. this page is like several years old.</b>Joseph Hinman (Metacrock)https://www.blogger.com/profile/06957529748541493998noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11516215.post-39163839546144837882010-11-29T08:36:45.051-08:002010-11-29T08:36:45.051-08:00Isn't it wrong to say "atheists" ? T...Isn't it wrong to say "atheists" ? They are individuals, who have different characteristics. The only common thing in them is that they do not believe in god... I think everyone should choose for himself. And their choice should be RESPECTED. Stop making fun/arguing about religion. A person can be good or bad regardless of his religion. <br /><br />P.S: You can't say christians are all the same. It's just not true.<br /><br />Oh and another thing... I do not believe in god, despite the fact that my grandfather (and his father, and his father and so on) was a priest, my family is religious, and I understand, and studyed christianity's process, and beliefs(which isn't really necessary to form an opinion.)<br /><br />I would really appreciate an answer, and if your interested, I would even tell you arguments to support my decision. I think I could tell you facts, that would "shake your spiritual world".Eltrekhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05836383453778676484noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11516215.post-45150525938595410922010-10-06T03:41:17.103-07:002010-10-06T03:41:17.103-07:00Thanks for your comment Cats. I was a debater too....Thanks for your comment Cats. I was a debater too. I would love to hear about your experiences in debate.<br /><br />The high school topic this year seems like a pretty tough one in my opinion. I'm speaking of the NFL topic.<br /><br />thanks again, take care.Joseph Hinman (Metacrock)https://www.blogger.com/profile/06957529748541493998noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11516215.post-64110404000993586042010-10-06T03:37:16.879-07:002010-10-06T03:37:16.879-07:00Hello I'm nearly 16 so I'm probably about ...Hello I'm nearly 16 so I'm probably about Alice Rose's age. Let me just say that I know lots of girls like her who are, shall we say, a bit dim in the head, and in a few years they all grow up. I completely support your post; I'm a debator so I know about the straw man arguements. They are easy to use, but will never win you a debate. Thanks for taking the time to reply to her post anyway; lots of people just ignore what teenagers say.CatShttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17702509563099331970noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11516215.post-40989090689709177662010-01-17T19:13:02.933-08:002010-01-17T19:13:02.933-08:00Eric I am going to answer both your comments in th...Eric I am going to answer both your comments in the main blog feature (hope page) for today. I think it deserves a good answer and it's important enough to be seen as it's on post.<br /><br /><a href="http://metacrock.blogspot.com/" rel="nofollow">The home page is here</a><br /><br />I'll get it up latter tonight.Joseph Hinman (Metacrock)https://www.blogger.com/profile/06957529748541493998noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11516215.post-88510007886778012702010-01-05T05:06:06.000-08:002010-01-05T05:06:06.000-08:00this whole post is ignorant and hypocritical. a lo...this whole post is ignorant and hypocritical. a lot of hateful comments from so called peace lovers.you shouldnt try to push your beliefs on people with your critism and assumptions, you should accept people for who they are and what they believe in. when you generalise people into groups, such as "athiests" and "christians" then your the ones causing the hate and prejudice.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11516215.post-31822831895372183792008-08-23T00:29:00.000-07:002008-08-23T00:29:00.000-07:00Atheists aren't all evil.They are just lying swine...Atheists aren't all evil.<BR/><BR/>They are just lying swine who would put us in Gulags, torture and kill us if they had the power.<BR/><BR/>Just like they did to my grandparents and tried to do to my parents.<BR/><BR/>I, among many others, will NEVER SUBMIT TO ATHEIST RULE!!!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11516215.post-16594298589797002012008-08-01T18:59:00.000-07:002008-08-01T18:59:00.000-07:00ME:I think you are refusing to fairly study or und...ME:I think you are refusing to fairly study or understand religion. You want to criticize it because that's what's cool, thats' in, but it's not fair and it's wrong. You should study the best and most sophisticated version of it before you claim to know what's wrong with it.<BR/><BR/>Him:<BR/>Great example of The Courtier's Reply!<BR/><BR/><B>Him</B>Issues of "sophistication" aside, when you boil it down to it's most basic components, Christian-flavored theists believe that a magical man in the sky made it all with magic.<BR/><BR/><BR/><B>Me</B>wrong sorry. you don't know anything about christianity. you only know about fundamentalism which is a small part of Christianity.<BR/><BR/>Process theology sees God as bipolar, consequent pole that changes with creation, a potential pole and is never chaning.<BR/><BR/>Tillich saw God as Being itself.<BR/><BR/>Schweitzer saw God as the life force.<BR/><BR/>Augustine saw God as a mind that continaed the realm of the forms of Plato.<BR/><BR/>Christian mystics see God as indescribable mystery beyond our understanding.<BR/><BR/>That's just off the top of my head. There are many many more. My own view is a synthesis of Tillich and the mystics.<BR/><BR/><B>Him</B>C'mon, c'mon - try and deny it. You can't. You may take issue with the names I have given to your sacred mythological concepts, but it is an accurate - if irreverent - representation of the core beliefs of most religions.<BR/><BR/><B>me</B>your ignorance is showing.<BR/><BR/><B>Him</B>Which are just laughably silly when you really think about them in light of everything we now know about our universe.<BR/><BR/><BR/><B>me</B>Ok put up your duke dumb dub. let's debate. I'll tear you apart. you are ignorant, unread unlearned foolish and unwilling to learn. you don't know anything about it.<BR/><BR/>have you ever read a single page written by any major theologians? can you even name a theologian? you probably think Jerrry Fallwell is one right?<BR/><BR/>put up your dukes know it all! put your money where your ignorant mouth is. just tell me the name of one theologian you know about.<BR/><BR/><B>dumb dumb</B>I don't need a degree in "sophisticated" theological nonsense to recognize that it is indeed nonsense.<BR/><BR/><B>Me</B>you need an iq transplant<BR/><BR/><B>him</B>I respect your right to hold silly, irrational beliefs. However, that also means that I have the right to call them silly.<BR/><BR/><B>Me</B>you do not.don't be a phony. you don't respect a God damn thing. You obviously don't respect knowledge. You don't have the slighest ideas what theology is about. you are willing to judge it knwong absoltuely nothing about it..Joseph Hinman (Metacrock)https://www.blogger.com/profile/06957529748541493998noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11516215.post-28011006882011484902008-08-01T18:36:00.000-07:002008-08-01T18:36:00.000-07:00but he atheists love logic! they wont read it. the...but he atheists love logic! they wont read it. they wont use it in assess God arguments. but they love it. they love so much they think it can't tell us a goddamn thing.Joseph Hinman (Metacrock)https://www.blogger.com/profile/06957529748541493998noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11516215.post-19853571027640497312008-08-01T18:35:00.000-07:002008-08-01T18:35:00.000-07:00the little hate mongers who attack Christianity wi...the little hate mongers who attack Christianity with their little know nothing nonsese about "O it's big sky daddy" are nothing more than fools trapped in sin longerng to be free from the guilt but too trapped to understand why they hate God so.<BR/><BR/>they don't read. that guy does not read. he doesn't know shit from fucking shinola abotu thoelogy . look at at waht he said "it's so igrnoant such crap.'<BR/><BR/>well you read it?<BR/><BR/>I can't have to read it, it's just crap.<BR/><BR/>who says?<BR/>'<BR/>dawkins<BR/><BR/>have you read dawkins?<BR/><BR/>a page or two<BR/><BR/>do you know he's not a scientsit? do you realize he has read theology either?<BR/><BR/>but he doesn't have to casue it's nonesne.<BR/><BR/>how do you know it nonesne<BR/><BR/>because it's about big sky daddy<BR/><BR/>but it's not<BR/><BR/>yes it is<BR/><BR/>but you have read it so how do you know?<BR/><BR/>dawkins says so<BR/><BR/>be hasn't read it.Joseph Hinman (Metacrock)https://www.blogger.com/profile/06957529748541493998noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11516215.post-70732593961949319372008-08-01T18:29:00.001-07:002008-08-01T18:29:00.001-07:00"Fritz Von Erich: Master of the iron claw."OK, tha..."Fritz Von Erich: Master of the iron claw."<BR/><BR/>OK, that would kick ass! ;-)<BR/><BR/>Tetsu no Tsume!<BR/><BR/>(Of course I had no idea who he was until I looked him up.)Mike aka MonolithTMAhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08385705390882035829noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11516215.post-42018685168523396032008-08-01T18:21:00.000-07:002008-08-01T18:21:00.000-07:00Mike Watch! I like it!You do realize that if your ...Mike Watch! I like it!<BR/><BR/>You do realize that if your screen name was Mr. MeanyPants that would totally disarm those who attack you. How could you attack someone with such a cute name? ;-)<BR/><BR/>7:48 AM<BR/><BR/><BR/>No it wouldn't. I think I'm going to cahnge my screen name to Fritz Von Erich: Master of the iron claw.Joseph Hinman (Metacrock)https://www.blogger.com/profile/06957529748541493998noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11516215.post-26608144222455048252008-08-01T18:20:00.000-07:002008-08-01T18:20:00.000-07:00A Hermit, that's totally unfair, Joe would never w...A Hermit, that's totally unfair, Joe would never write an "atheists are evil Nazis who don't know how to think" post. Sheesh!<BR/><BR/>He'd write an "atheists are all child raping, baby seal bludgeoning, infant eating, wastes of the very dna they are made of" posts. Come on! Get it right!Mike aka MonolithTMAhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08385705390882035829noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11516215.post-850516347156614272008-08-01T12:07:00.000-07:002008-08-01T12:07:00.000-07:00It would help to have the post in question so we c...It would help to have the post in question so we can have some idea of what she was responding to. If it was one of your old "atheists are evil Nazis who don't know how to think" rants I'd say she was remarkably restrained...;-)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11516215.post-12961371940683806212008-08-01T10:41:00.000-07:002008-08-01T10:41:00.000-07:00Heheh...I think you are refusing to fairly study o...Heheh...<BR/><BR/><I>I think you are refusing to fairly study or understand religion. You want to criticize it because that's what's cool, thats' in, but it's not fair and it's wrong. You should study the best and most sophisticated version of it before you claim to know what's wrong with it.</I><BR/><BR/>Great example of <A HREF="http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2006/12/the_courtiers_reply.php" REL="nofollow">The Courtier's Reply</A>!<BR/><BR/>Issues of "sophistication" aside, when you boil it down to it's most basic components, Christian-flavored theists believe that a magical man in the sky made it all with magic.<BR/><BR/>C'mon, c'mon - try and deny it. You can't. You may take issue with the <I>names</I> I have given to your sacred mythological concepts, but it is an accurate - if irreverent - representation of the core beliefs of most religions.<BR/><BR/>Which are just laughably silly when you really think about them in light of everything we now know about our universe.<BR/><BR/>I don't need a degree in "sophisticated" theological nonsense to recognize that it is indeed nonsense.<BR/><BR/>I respect your right to hold silly, irrational beliefs. However, that also means that I have the right to call them silly.Brent Rasmussenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08094892018474087261noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11516215.post-91875236913719914472008-08-01T07:48:00.000-07:002008-08-01T07:48:00.000-07:00Mike Watch! I like it!You do realize that if your ...Mike Watch! I like it!<BR/><BR/>You do realize that if your screen name was Mr. MeanyPants that would totally disarm those who attack you. How could you attack someone with such a cute name? ;-)Mike aka MonolithTMAhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08385705390882035829noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11516215.post-22490743188097572922008-08-01T07:41:00.000-07:002008-08-01T07:41:00.000-07:00you call me that and I'll put up a Mike watch" sit...you call me that and I'll put up a Mike watch" site! ;-)<BR/><BR/>good post, I mean the one you link to. thanks for the comments.Joseph Hinman (Metacrock)https://www.blogger.com/profile/06957529748541493998noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11516215.post-22577314772540753952008-08-01T07:03:00.000-07:002008-08-01T07:03:00.000-07:00I'm totally going to call you Mr. MeanyPants from ...I'm totally going to call you Mr. MeanyPants from now on. ;-)<BR/><BR/>Ok, maybe not.<BR/><BR/>Good answers.<BR/><BR/>I really don't like when atheists use titles like bearded sky daddy or invisible friend. To me, it's disrespectful.<BR/><BR/>I did a post about it here: http://atheists-and-christians.blogspot.com/2008/07/invisible-friends.htmlMike aka MonolithTMAhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08385705390882035829noreply@blogger.com