As for all ted’s other points, my fellow mods have addressed them more than sufficiently.

No…only the ones like yourself who try to impose your delusional beliefs on us, and try to make everyone cater to your personal god beliefs.

I get that.

I don’t think you do.

So, can we get past the spew and talk?

If you want to talk about and have something to contribute to the subject of the post you are commenting on.

I am not going to talk down to you or berate you.

How so very self-righteous of you.

You forget you are a guest here at our atheist site, and so you play by our rules, not the other way around.

Now that we are past the angry spew, let me ask you a serious question?
Would you go down to New Orleans and rebuild someone’s house?

Many of us have…you are implying that atheists do not help in a time of crisis?
Again, these are the ignorant assumptions by xians that piss us off.

Are any of you doctors?

Uh…DUH…WHAT KIND OF QUESTION IS THAT! (a stupid one) OF COURSE THERE ARE ATHEIST DOCTORS..AND HINDU AND MUSLIM AND ALL SORTS OF OTHERS WHO DO AND DO NOT HOLD SKY DADDY BELIEFS.

We need people who will go overseas or places in this country for a couple weeks to give out free vaccines or medical treatment.

Duh…REALLY? You piss us off when you insult our intelligence. Of course ALL KINDS of people come together in times of crisis. It seems you are EXTREMELY IGNORANT about atheism in general. If a person helps, his personal beliefs should be set aside…too many god botherers will only help with the stipulation that people hear about their god beliefs. Their “mission” first is to spread the news of their imaginary friend. Then the food comes with the propaganda, maybe even after like at the homeless shelters where people are not fed till they attend a xian mythology service.

Did you go to where the Tsunami hit the hardest and stay there for weeks on end helping?

Did YOU? We have a huge readership, and I am certain some of those who read DID help in the situations you mentioned. People from everywhere, all walks of life, rich or poor, all amazingly come together to help in times of crisis BECAUSE NO SKY DADDY IS GOING TO FLOAT OUT OF THE SKY AND DO IT (funny how measly humans are the only ones who can get things done…doesn’t that tell you something?) Your imaginary friend seems very powerless to stop these catastrophes from happening, and if this god were real and allows it, he is a prick.

Christians do not have the monopoly on humanism and kindness.

Many many Christians I know did and do these things routinely.

And so do many, many atheists. The difference is that god believers do it because they believe they are going to be rewarded for it, and they love to praise themselves for it.

They were working with Muslims in Phuket, Thailand because people needed help.

No shit. I don’t think that you understand that you are “lecturing” a blog which is run and supported by older educated adults, many of whom do more volunteer work and are more concerned about people than you will ever be.

I challenge you now to reach out to those in need with a Christian.

YOU, challenge US? HA! There you go with the self-righteous shit again, like xians are the only good people (what about the ones who kill their husband and kids, have sex with little boys and have affairs with married members of their congregations?) Just because someone calls themselves a xians, doesn’t mean they are an upstanding member of society.

When people come together to help out in times of need, what the next guy’s sky daddy beliefs are is the last thing we are thinking about…

If you tell them you don’t want to hear “the Gospel”, they will respect you and not talk about it.

Bullshit. We told you already, and you keep coming back. Christians tell that lie all the time.

These are the Christians that I know. Not pushy.

Not pushy…just like you mr troll ted?

They just want to make this world better for as long as we have breath.

But you xians hate this world and are longing to be dead in the sky with your Jeebus…you contradict yourselves. You hate everything in this world, but want to save it, but can’t wait to leave it and are focused on a hoped-for afterlife somewhere over the rainbow. Don’t you see how schizo that is?

I somehow suspect you will still ridicule me and other Christians, but that is okay. I expect that.

Because you Christians have a persecution complex and like to play the martyr even though you make up the majority of the population. Your little “pity me” crap won’t work here.

And I get the message, I really do. But where can I get some good, unblemish sacrificial animals? And can I really kill anyone who doesn’t worship Yahweh like Moses and Joshua and the Israelites did? Will Yahweh send out female bears to kill children who taunt me because I’m bald? Please tell me he will, because I don’t like being teased about my baldness, and they’re only children, after all.

Oh, but there’s no Jesus in the Old Testament, the book of laws Yahweh says are for all time. So why should we listen to this Jesus upstart anyway? Isn’t Jesus a bastard because Yahweh wasn’t married to Mary? Doesn’t that mean Jesus should have been put to death anyway?

So many questions, no answers…

Fucktard.