Battle of the Chambersburg billboards

You have got to be kidding me. Great one-sided reporting Mr Barnes. Isn't the basic idea of journalism that you present both sides of a story?

Where are the facts to support Bishop Hate-Monger's claims?
Many people went to the FFRF's website and saw no examples that back up these allegations.
There were, however, many examples of violence inciting propaganda on IGWT's website.
Lovely bunch of God's people these folks are.
If there is a hell, I bet they'll be there.

This article did NOT seem at ALL balanced.

Careful, your bias is showing.

Only in religion can a man live inside a whale's belly for three days or have a man with magical hair that gives him super strength. Only in religion can world wide genocide be seen as righteous. Only in religion is it acceptable to talk to children about mass murder, sex, torture, and war and then turn around and threaten them if they don't accept all of it no matter how crazy it sounds even to a child.

There never was a magic contest between Moses and the Pharaohs wizards changing sticks into snakes or a foot race going right through a parted Red Sea.

How do these myths stay alive when they are based on things that loads of historical evidence and mountains of scientific evidence refute? Well people are raised with an emotional attachment to whatever faith they cling to and will simply deny logic and reason. The fundamentalists flirt with mental illness. Most followers are not so stupid or prone to dogmatic group think as them. The main method of evidence dodging, besides ignorance, is excuse making or rationalizations. They use the "Says Vs Means" excuse for most things including basic math like how plants animals and stars can be made in only days,(days make up years) and yet plenty of Biblical people can live to be well past 200 years old. They will call slaves indentured servants (as if that was OK either) even though we know that both kinds of slaves existed. The Bible even gives rules on how to beat them and how to buy and sell them. Pointless things like animal sacrifice are no longer in style even though books like Leviticus go over it in great detail.

An Atheist doesn't have to know where the earth originated etc. They only have to know where it did not. And it sure wasn't from the Lotus growing from belly of Brahman or a magical garden or sitting on a giant turtle etc..........

If there is no God, why do you work do hard to rally against Him and His followers?

I am betting my life there IS a God. You certainly have the respected right to disagree.
If you are right I lose nothing. If I am right you lose eternity.

I have prayed for those who will certainly arrive on this forum with their predictable animosity.

typo alert: "so" not "do"

All we Christians need to do is pray...God will take care of all the procrastioners in his own way. Believe me God is alive and well. I'm happy the Church is here for all of us...We don't need to arouse a lot of arguments. God works in mysterious ways....Pray Pray Pray...............

I would have to agree 100% with Festus' comment "If you are right, I lose nothing. If I am right, you lose eternity." Well Said!

The "atheists hate Christians" billboard is one of the reason people are just sick & tired of you religious zealots trying to shove your religion down everyone's throat.

There are a lot old people who hold their religion as a private matter. They are not atheists but they would agree with the separation of church & state.

Instead of upholding this American viewpoint, the zealots try to push religion into our schools and into our government.

You think it is so bad that we don't have the children recite the Lords Prayer in School anymore even though 90% of the kids don't have a clue on what they are saying or why - "Our Father who art in heaven, Harold be thy name"

These religious right organizations and their leaders are scary people. They don't believe in evolution. They don't believe in Global Warming.

Why can't you just practice your religion in YOUR homes and YOUR churches.

Keep your religion out of our schools & government and all will be OK.

As a suggestion, the religious right has become an intergral part of the Republican Party. Other than their stance on abortion (assuming you equate abortion with murder), the Republican party is against every other Christian stance. The Republican Party is the party of the rich (reference that camel & eye of needle thing), against helping the poor & needy, favors going to war to prevent a man who might have weapons from maybe attacking us sometime in the future, and persecute segments of the population.

For a group of people who CLAIM to be Christians, you belong to a polical party that certainly violates almost every teaching Of Jesus Christ.

Maybe it all about the hipocracy.

People have tried to discredit the Word of God, the Bible, for centuries. Voltaire claimed that he would live to see the Bible a relic found only in museums. One hundred years later his house was a Bible distribution center [God does have a sense of humor]. The evolutionist have repeatedly twisted results of their studies to support the evolutionary theory. Like the pig toothe that was suppost to be some pre-historic man. The list could go on and on. But science and anthropology has always over time supported the Bible. Christofer Columbus against all conventional wisdom believed the earth was round. Why? He read Isaiah 40:22 that refers to the circle of the earth. Many thought he was crazy. Who was crazy? Many more examples could be used.
The most compelling arguement is the changed lives of those that have put their faith and trust in Jesus Christ. No other "religion" or lack thereof has seen an instant change in a person that has truly been born again. Why to I believe in God and the Bible. Because 17yrs ago I had an encounter with God and my life was instantly changed. My motivations, my desires, my dreams, my vises, my attitudes, etc.. where all changed in one moment of time

"Atheists hate America" is just more slogan-mongering from the far right. "Liberals hate America". "Liberals want to lose the war". "Liberals hate God". Just how did you folks acquire your mind reading abilities ?

If you believe there is no God, you are a fool.

Atheists know there is a God but they hate him because he requires holiness. God has standards the atheist is unwilling to submit to.

So they will spend eternity in hell along with Stalin, Hitler and many others.

Sure it's sad. But not only is God a God of love he is also a judge and he will hand out the appropriate sentence.

I am with you Dave. This country was not founded on religion, it was founded on freedom from religion. In God We Trust did not appear on $ until 1956 due to McCarthyism. Praying is a cop out to helping yourself and others.

And by the way, how can a Christian support any war that kills people? Is that what Jesus would do?

As a side note, Dave says Christians don't believe in global warming. You're right, most thinking Christians don't believe it.

Even if it were true do you think we could do anything about it?

Our wonderful politicians on both sides can't even fix the Social Security problem and that is man made. How could they ever fix a global problem.

We humans think we are so important and powerful, such arrogance.

God never changes.

In the Old Testament not only did the nation of Israel fight, but at times God told them to kill everything, the men, women, children and animals.

God also said to rescue those unjustly being put to death.

So yes, I do believe God allows for war. Remember in the New Testament God Himself killed 2 people for lying.

You uneducated biblical illerates try to use the Bible as your offense to prove there is no God and it only proves your stupidity.

Dave is pushing his religion of Secular Humanism on us and that is OK. Was the US founded by those practicing SH or by those respecting God? Separation of church and state will not be found anywhere in the Constitution or Federalist Papers. Tell us Dave, what has happened in schools since God was removed? He is right that we don't believe in evolution and global warming. Still searching for that missing link eh?

A recent example of how extreme Liberals rise to the top of religous denominations is the Archbishop of Canterbury who said that the United Kingdom ought to allow Islamic Sharia law. Look what Liberals in the Episcopal church have done regarding Bishop Robinson and the United Methodists who have equally Liberal leaders at the top and there are other examples. A common thread is that the religous leadership is willing, eager to compromise the beliefs of their members. Liberals, like the Archbishop of Canterbury, tend to be weak, rollover easy people who abandon principles in a blink of the eye.

jtb wrote:

If you believe there is no God, you are a fool.
Atheists know there is a God but they hate him because he requires holiness. God has standards the atheist is unwilling to submit to.
So they will spend eternity in hell along with Stalin, Hitler and many others.
Sure it's sad. But not only is God a God of love he is also a judge and he will hand out the appropriate sentence.

Please stop. Your criticism and judgmentalism are what is preventing people from seeing the love, mercy, and forgiveness of Jesus. You create an atmosphere where people are LESS likely to know him.

Polly wrote:

A recent example of how extreme Liberals rise to the top of religous denominations is the Archbishop of Canterbury who said that the United Kingdom ought to allow Islamic Sharia law. Look what Liberals in the Episcopal church have done regarding Bishop Robinson and the United Methodists who have equally Liberal leaders at the top and there are other examples. A common thread is that the religous leadership is willing, eager to compromise the beliefs of their members. Liberals, like the Archbishop of Canterbury, tend to be weak, rollover easy people who abandon principles in a blink of the eye.

Please stop. Christianity is not liberal or conservative. Jesus way is a third way - one that agrees with positions on both sides of the liberal/conservative debate. Your polarization creates an atmosphere where it is harder for people to find out who Jesus is.

Patty Wack wrote:

Only in religion can a man live inside a whale's belly for three days or have a man with magical hair that gives him super strength. Only in religion can world wide genocide be seen as righteous. Only in religion is it acceptable to talk to children about mass murder, sex, torture, and war and then turn around and threaten them if they don't accept all of it no matter how crazy it sounds even to a child.
There never was a magic contest between Moses and the Pharaohs wizards changing sticks into snakes or a foot race going right through a parted Red Sea.
How do these myths stay alive when they are based on things that loads of historical evidence and mountains of scientific evidence refute? Well people are raised with an emotional attachment to whatever faith they cling to and will simply deny logic and reason. The fundamentalists flirt with mental illness. Most followers are not so stupid or prone to dogmatic group think as them. The main method of evidence dodging, besides ignorance, is excuse making or rationalizations. They use the "Says Vs Means" excuse for most things including basic math like how plants animals and stars can be made in only days,(days make up years) and yet plenty of Biblical people can live to be well past 200 years old. They will call slaves indentured servants (as if that was OK either) even though we know that both kinds of slaves existed. The Bible even gives rules on how to beat them and how to buy and sell them. Pointless things like animal sacrifice are no longer in style even though books like Leviticus go over it in great detail.
An Atheist doesn't have to know where the earth originated etc. They only have to know where it did not. And it sure wasn't from the Lotus growing from belly of Brahman or a magical garden or sitting on a giant turtle etc..........

Well said!