[Pastor Ed Lowman]

Re: How do atheists console each other when a loved one dies?

When I die, I do not wish to be cremated or embalmed. I wish for my body to be placed in a pine box, with holes, and placed into the ground under a tree. In this manner, the nutrients which my body holds, the atoms which make up my being will be returned to the world from which they came. I do not own them. My family does not own them. I am merely borrowing them from the earth.

I rejoice in the time I have had with those who have died. I am beyond thankful for the experience of knowing them and do my best to pass on the memory of them to those I know. Their memory, their legacy will not be forgotten. I am currently breathing in molecules and atoms which they breathed. So are you. We are in the universe and the universe is in us.

Listen to yourself...your aspiration is to be buried in a box under a tree to help it grow! How sad is that?! I'm convinced atheists have the least hope of all foul sinners.

And why is it that atheists are always holding onto bad values, like recycling and saying women have power over their own bodies? The Bible is clearly against both (Matthew 6:25-33; I Corinthians 7:4).

[Dr Laurence Niles]

Re: How do atheists console each other when a loved one dies?

I rejoice in the time I have had with those who have died.

For God's sake man this is a Christian website! No one is interested in the 'times' you had with dead bodies

People like you make me sick: why would anyone defile the dead?

Shame on you, you filthy pervert!

YIC

[Missionary in Sweden]

Re: How do atheists console each other when a loved one dies?

Why would they console each other. What possible meaning in life could there be if not solely try to gain egotistical pleasure. Caring about others goes against all that atheists believe.

[ProudNonBeliever]

Re: How do atheists console each other when a loved one dies?

I am so shocked and appaled at some of the post's on this website that i has to register and leave a comment. I honestly can't decide whether you people are serious christians or just trolling. I am a proud atheist and would never dream of being so judgemental, ignorant, or hateful to another person as most of the so called "christians" on this site seem to be. Your religigion is irrational claiming to be based on love and compassion whilst at the same time preaching hatred and condoning violence. And frankly, considering that Jesus was a devout jew and believed his teachings only applied to other Jews and not the gentile pig's that we would all qualify as, if the Abrahamic god does exist we are all going to burn in hell anyway other than the chosen 12000 male jews from each of the 12 tribes who will be admitted into the heaven club. You would all do much better if you thought for yourselves for once the only evil and immoral people people i know of are religous people. Your pathetic.

[ProudNonBeliever]

Re: How do atheists console each other when a loved one dies?

You're still dancing around what's stopping you. What's stopping me having anal sex and raping people is that God tells me not to. What's stopping you?

If the only thing stopping you "having anal sex and raping people" is you belief in a barbaric, outdated religion then you have some real issues. Atheist are capable of being moral without an imaginary "God". We are intelligent enough to realise that raping people just isn't nice.

PS. there are multiple times in the Bible where god condones rape. Does Lot not offer his virgin daughter to a baying mob so the don't analy rape the 2 angels hiding in his house. How moral of him......

[Dr Laurence Niles]

Re: How do atheists console each other when a loved one dies?

I am so shocked and appaled at some of the post's on this website that i has to register and leave a comment. I honestly can't decide whether you people are serious christians or just trolling. I am a proud atheist and would never dream of being so judgemental, ignorant, or hateful to another person as most of the so called "christians" on this site seem to be. Your religigion is irrational claiming to be based on love and compassion whilst at the same time preaching hatred and condoning violence. And frankly, considering that Jesus was a devout jew and believed his teachings only applied to other Jews and not the gentile pig's that we would all qualify as, if the Abrahamic god does exist we are all going to burn in hell anyway other than the chosen 12000 male jews from each of the 12 tribes who will be admitted into the heaven club. You would all do much better if you thought for yourselves for once the only evil and immoral people people i know of are religous people. Your pathetic.

No one claims Christinity is based on love and compassion: it is based on following God's Laws. You may have been hoodwinked by so called Christians who think the Bible is just some licence agreement to tick and then you are in Club Christian but that is not how it works.

To truly Love Jesus and be a dedicated True Christian(tm) you need to actually read and follow the Bible. Not just lip service.

The message of Jesus is for all the people on Earth: even foreigners and savages and pygmies.

You might not like it Jesus is very real and is not the nancy boy you've been told about: he comes with a sword and kills errant children with bears for their temerity.

Typical atheist 'no nothing'. Maybe if you read the Bible and learnt about our cherished beleifs before hating on the Baby Jesus' crying face you might learn something.

YIC

[Dr Laurence Niles]

Re: How do atheists console each other when a loved one dies?

PS. there are multiple times in the Bible where god condones rape. Does Lot not offer his virgin daughter to a baying mob so the don't analy rape the 2 angels hiding in his house. How moral of him......

What is your point? No body here denies this. You are attacking a stawman version of Christianity that simply does not exist (except in the minds of fluffy bunny liberal types who have never read the Bible).

You're tilting at windmills.

YIC

[Billy Bob Jenkins]

Re: How do atheists console each other when a loved one dies?

If the only thing stopping you "having anal sex and raping people" is you belief in a barbaric, outdated religion then you have some real issues. Atheist are capable of being moral without an imaginary "God". We are intelligent enough to realise that raping people just isn't nice.

PS. there are multiple times in the Bible where god condones rape. Does Lot not offer his virgin daughter to a baying mob so the don't analy rape the 2 angels hiding in his house. How moral of him......

That is not a condonement of rape. It is substituting the rape of an angel with the rape of a mere woman.

THIS passage condones rape:

Judges 21:10-24
King James Version (KJV)
10 And the congregation sent thither twelve thousand men of the valiantest, and commanded them, saying, Go and smite the inhabitants of Jabeshgilead with the edge of the sword, with the women and the children.

11 And this is the thing that ye shall do, Ye shall utterly destroy every male, and every woman that hath lain by man.

12 And they found among the inhabitants of Jabeshgilead four hundred young virgins, that had known no man by lying with any male: and they brought them unto the camp to Shiloh, which is in the land of Canaan.

13 And the whole congregation sent some to speak to the children of Benjamin that were in the rock Rimmon, and to call peaceably unto them.

14 And Benjamin came again at that time; and they gave them wives which they had saved alive of the women of Jabeshgilead: and yet so they sufficed them not.

15 And the people repented them for Benjamin, because that the Lord had made a breach in the tribes of Israel.

16 Then the elders of the congregation said, How shall we do for wives for them that remain, seeing the women are destroyed out of Benjamin?

17 And they said, There must be an inheritance for them that be escaped of Benjamin, that a tribe be not destroyed out of Israel.

18 Howbeit we may not give them wives of our daughters: for the children of Israel have sworn, saying, Cursed be he that giveth a wife to Benjamin.

19 Then they said, Behold, there is a feast of the Lord in Shiloh yearly in a place which is on the north side of Bethel, on the east side of the highway that goeth up from Bethel to Shechem, and on the south of Lebonah.

20 Therefore they commanded the children of Benjamin, saying, Go and lie in wait in the vineyards;

21 And see, and, behold, if the daughters of Shiloh come out to dance in dances, then come ye out of the vineyards, and catch you every man his wife of the daughters of Shiloh, and go to the land of Benjamin.

22 And it shall be, when their fathers or their brethren come unto us to complain, that we will say unto them, Be favourable unto them for our sakes: because we reserved not to each man his wife in the war: for ye did not give unto them at this time, that ye should be guilty.

23 And the children of Benjamin did so, and took them wives, according to their number, of them that danced, whom they caught: and they went and returned unto their inheritance, and repaired the cities, and dwelt in them.

24 And the children of Israel departed thence at that time, every man to his tribe and to his family, and they went out from thence every man to his inheritance.

[MitzaLizalor]

Re: How do atheists console each other when a loved one dies?

. . we are all going to burn in hell anyway other than the chosen 12000 male jews from each of the 12 tribes who will be admitted into the heaven club.

Rather than post the entire chapter, I'll move right on to the next verse:

9 After this I beheld, and, lo, a great multitude, which no man could number, of all nations, and kindreds, and people, and tongues, stood before the throne, and before the Lamb, clothed with white robes, and palms in their hands;
KJV look up

Who are these people, in your "heaven"?

[Pastor Ezekiel]

Re: How do atheists console each other when a loved one dies?

I am so shocked and appaled at some of the post's on this website that i has to register and leave a comment. I honestly can't decide whether you people are serious christians or just trolling. I am a proud atheist and would never dream of being so judgemental, ignorant, or hateful to another person as most of the so called "christians" on this site seem to be. Your religigion is irrational claiming to be based on love and compassion whilst at the same time preaching hatred and condoning violence. And frankly, considering that Jesus was a devout jew and believed his teachings only applied to other Jews and not the gentile pig's that we would all qualify as, if the Abrahamic god does exist we are all going to burn in hell anyway other than the chosen 12000 male jews from each of the 12 tribes who will be admitted into the heaven club. You would all do much better if you thought for yourselves for once the only evil and immoral people people i know of are religous people. Your pathetic.

Jesus is NOT a damned hook-nosed joo! This is a historical fact! Read THIS, then apologize to Christ for calling Him a kike.

[Pastor Ed Lowman]

Re: How do atheists console each other when a loved one dies?

I am so shocked and appaled at some of the post's on this website that i has to register and leave a comment.

You hated us so much you had to invade our fellowship to promote your godless philosophy.

I honestly can't decide whether you people are serious christians or just trolling.

Oh yes, like I want to waste my time mocking idiots who won't learn!

I am a proud atheist and would never dream of being so judgemental, ignorant, or hateful to another person as most of the so called "christians" on this site seem to be.

Well, we choose to follow the Lord as He commands us to judge (see John 7:24). I'm sure you understand.

Your religigion is irrational claiming to be based on love and compassion whilst at the same time preaching hatred and condoning violence.

Our religion is rational if you are among the Enlightened™ (I Corinthians 2:11)

God is the one who condones hatred and violence (Proverbs 6:16; Romans 9:13; Exodus 22:18)

Joshua 1:18...

"Whosoever he be that doth rebel against thy commandment, and will not hearken unto thy words in all that thou commandest him, he shall be put to death: only be strong and of a good courage."

And frankly, considering that Jesus was a devout jew and believed his teachings only applied to other Jews and not the gentile pig's that we would all qualify

First, Jesus was not a Jew! Second, you are wrong...

"Jesus saith unto her, Woman, believe me, the hour cometh, when ye shall neither in this mountain, nor yet at Jerusalem, worship the Father." (John 4:21)

if the Abrahamic god does exist we are all going to burn in hell anyway other than the chosen 12000 male jews from each of the 12 tribes who will be admitted into the heaven club.

Huh?

You would all do much better if you thought for yourselves for once the only evil and immoral people people i know of are religous people.

Thinking for ourselves results in evil: "Trust in the LORD with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding." (Proverbs 3:5)

Your pathetic.

Your pathetic what? Oh, you mean "you're pathetic." Atheists just can't communicate very well. I see.

Pastor Ed

[Hatchet the Jap]

Re: How do atheists console each other when a loved one dies?

Your pathetic what? Oh, you mean "you're pathetic." Atheists just can't communicate very well. I see.

Pastor Ed

It's just something many people on the Internet always do, usually happening in Facebook posts and YouTube comments.
I myself suffer from Grammatical Pedantry Syndrome. This means that I hate grammatical errors made by others so much that I can't resist correcting them.
In fact, how well we communicate has nothing to do with our religion.

[Mary Thompson]

Re: How do atheists console each other when a loved one dies?

In fact, how well we communicate has nothing to do with our religion.

Then why would the Bible be so important then? The Bible is God communicating with us and telling us his word.
And grammar can be important, for example I think it is open disrespect for someone to not even bother capitalizing God or Jesus. Instead they say (Lord forgive me) god or jesus. The shift key is here for a reason.
And it shows your stupidity that you make such simple grammar mistakes at the age of fifteen.

[Hatchet the Jap]

Re: How do atheists console each other when a loved one dies?

And it shows your stupidity that you make such simple grammar mistakes at the age of fifteen.

*AHEM* Have I now? *AHEM*
I said that I can't help correcting other's grammatical mistakes. I didn't say anything about me making grammatical mistakes.

[Dr Laurence Niles]

Re: How do atheists console each other when a loved one dies?

And it shows your stupidity that you make such simple grammar mistakes at the age of fifteen.

To be fair he has shown how he knows how to use a colon.

YIC