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Edited by
wouldee
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Fri 05/30/08 05:27 PM
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yup, a part time vocation indeed. 
Let me guess...... no one has ever insulted a believer yet, until this professor did? right? how many insults can be hurled? How many temptations and taunts can be hurled with impunity? seventy times seven? innumerable, is my guess. 
carry on defending the athiest. he is just one guy and oddly mistaken for being a stereotypical hater. Such assumptive retribution by the Marine is despicable, right? So much for fear. Doesn't the athiest have every right to exploit the believers? Why shouldn't he? He doesn't believe in God at all. Let him taunt, I say. Every day and all day. May his class be full and overflowing with likeminded students. I am sure the institutions of higher education wouldn't mind a bit as long as paying customers are treated with extracurricular and off topic tests of manners all in the name of fun. Yes, we should be tolerant of that, yes indeed. Wwe should all applaud his right to taunt anything. Who are we to judge his liberties? Who are we to even be offended by such ridicule? On the other hand..... It is absurd to taunt God that has given no indication of ever intervening in the life of any that chooses not to believe.
God doesn't taunt or tempt any man, but men tempt and taunt God out of the same heart that accredits God with man's attributes. Yeah, right. get a clue.   
Maybe god was testing the marine by "taunting" him with the atheist. Maybe god was using the atheist as a tool to see if the marine would defend his faith without violence... Jesus never preached violence... although the old testament is certainly chock full of it... and taunting the athiest's mind with the word of God? Not. pencils down.
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I must admit that people who publicly admit to being atheist catch a lot of flack
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maybe he was there for the simple reason as to knock him off the stool after all the guy did open the opportunity for it to happen (and he obviously thought that is why he was there so hey it happened)
just a thought (and a possibility) This is all we need,... for Christians to start thinking that God wants them to go around punching non-believers in the face. Hasn't Christianity done enough of that already over the ages? Standing up for ones beliefs is not a bad thing. You are right--standing up for a personal belief (including religion) is not a bad thing. But the right to stand up ends where physical violence begins. God did not send the Marine in this story to punch the professor--that was an uninspired and felonious human decision and action. But the scariest part is the thought that God might have. If so, what a weak and feeble God we would then be dealing with. A perfect powerful God being so upset by the rantings of one man that he motivated someone to hit him. But then I guess the virtue of turning the other cheek really is only a part time vocation, right? -Drew did not god send the troops to jerico and does that make god weak and feeble Well, if you believe God sent the troops to Jericho to do His will then I guess the answer would be no, in that he approved of it. I don't but then I don't look to the bible for moral direction. My point was simply that an all-powerful God should not need to use man to commit violence in his name or for his honor. I think that those who are reduced to violence in the name of God are weak and feeble. Nothing like an excuse, and never in history has there been a better one than "God" for the justification to commit violence. That said, I am not a pacifist. I have a right and responsibility to protect and defend myself. If someone breaks in to my house at 2:00 AM and I shoot them I'll feel bad but only to the extent that I'll wish they had not put me in that position. What I would not do is punch someone in the face because they made fun of something. That sounds an awful lot like something five year olds do--and those that defend such actions along the same lines don't sound much older. -Drew |
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