If you are atheist, I recommend just leaving now, You may not find this tasteful to yourself. Me, myself? I love it.

haha thats pretty funny

I love that one...my brother emailed it to me last year...I'd REALLY love to hear that it was a true story. <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/patriot.gif" alt="" />

Ha Ha that is funny. What's funnier is that there is no God and you church going suckers are wasting a perfectly good Sunday in Church when you could be out wheeling with the rest of us heathens <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/evil.gif" alt="" />

Joe there is no reason to insult other peoples beliefs. If you don't believe in God that is great for you, but I don't recall any one asking for your opinion on what their personal beliefs on God.

Let's see here, isn't joking about sucker punching an Atheist insulting someones beliefs? I think so. If you don't like what I said then too bad, delete it or skip over it <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/nana.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/patriot.gif" alt="" />

He did give you advanced warning... I read it and got a kick out of it. Hey, who says you can't belong to a religion and offroad instead of church on sundays?

I'm a Marine, currently serving civilian duty <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

Anyways not to turn this into a thread locker religion debate as everyone has their views. As for me I grew up Baptist, church on sundays, good food afterwards. Baptist private school, Baptist stampted on my dog tags. I used to rub the raised letters on the tags at night, long nights looking down the barrel of a M249 SAW.

Anyways I'm the last person to get offended at Joe's atheist comments, he will come around someday. Until then I offer up this little clip I found on the internet. You can
call it bunk if you want, wont matter to them one bit <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/cheers.gif" alt="" />

"When I was in my 20's, I went to visit a friend at St. Anne's Nursing Home. We were seated in the activities room when the staff began wheeling in some of the other residents. These people were pitiable, all confined to reclining wheelchairs, their arms and legs grotesquely bent at odd and unimaginable angles. I had the thought that if I ever found myself in a state as deplorable as theirs, I would rather be dead.

Most were unable to speak or even move their heads, and I was curious to see in what activity these six patients had been assembled to participate. A nurse saw my curiosity, and giving a weak smile said, "They have church every week." The program director introduced a Baptist choir and, as they sang 'Amazing Grace', I watched those men and women in the crippled audience and I was shocked and unsettled to see peace and happiness take over their expressions. Some sat there with frozen smiles while others silently mouthed the words of the hymn, but there was victory in their eyes. At the time, I recall having thought that these people were already in heaven, despite being confined to an earthly hell.

After the choir left, I half-heartedly spoke to the one patient who could still verbalize. "How are you doing?" I asked. She was completely paralyzed and couldn't even turn her face to see me, but she was glowing.

"Wonderful!" she replied and continued smiling as a nurse wheeled her back to her room.

How could these people be happy? What allowed them to be this way in their tragic affliction while I could barely manage a smile in all my good fortune? "

LRJ4X4: You said it all. God Bless those people. They are stonger then me.
Conner

It is funny even from a Atheists point of view.

I doubt it to be real. I am a Atheist and I dont think it would be in his place to make such a statement infront of a class or any group and he should have known better. Unless the group or class was their for religion reasons and lectures he should get in some kind of trouble with the school he teaches. As for the Marine he should get in just as much trouble as any student striking a teacher for saying something that went against his beliefs.

If this did happen he is like no other Atheist I have met. Most tend to avoid the subject and avoid it to keep out of ridicule and persecution but tell the truth about it when asked. They also tend to know what it is like to be preached to and made fun of so they would not want to do the same back to a group of believers. In other words respect for others beliefs.

Then there are the vast majority of the people I have heard claim to be Atheist that do it for the Shock factor and attention. These people end up mocking there own beliefs and hurting Atheists by calling unwanted attention to them in a negative light. They do this by trying to look rebelious and getting into trouble then people say ooh ya that is a Atheist. These people do not know or understand their own religion good enough and need alot of education in their own back ground. They should under their own rules repent, get saved or whatever their version of it is. They will severly regret it later in life when they "wise up" and try to practice their born/learned religion.