Did you ever think that saying you love God in front of athiests can have a similiar effect?

I personally have no problem with Christians – or any other religion for that matter – but I sometimes find that the Christians I know can be ignorant. If they get annoyed at a science teacher for talking about the Big Bang and start rambling on about Creationism and ignoring a proven theory, it can get really, REALLY annoying.

My basic idea for this is – Don’t shove religion down my throat and I won’t shove athiesm down yours. =]

First time to your blog, you can probably guess what side of the fence I'm on from my pseudonym.

Christians are not alone in having websites hacked, I know of at least one atheist blog which was hacked and taken over by a 'christian' (yes that is in quotes, because I know one of you will say "but he's not a 'real christian'") who also stole his email ID and promptly started defaming the poor guy throughout the blogoshpere, by posting untruths in his name.

I have also read a few reports of DoS attacks on atheist blogs.

Now, I don't condone any of these attacks, including the one on crosswalk, I'm just trying to point out, whilst what Finnish boy did was wrong, you are not alone.

I see the link to 'Christian Website Hacked By Atheist' and thought "that's rude, better read about that" and after reading the story, what's the first comment I see?

windyblue's rant about going to "HELL WHEN HE DIES" – and you wonder why sometimes atheists think you christians aren't being very 'christian'.

John, I had to laugh at your response, and the one to Lori on the open-letter page

By the way – atheists don't believe in hell, so no point threatening us with it.

JP

I don't know any atheist who 'fears they might not be right'; christians yes, agnostics maybe, atheists no.

Apart from twits like Finnish boy, most atheists only fear what might happen if their country gets turned into a theocracy and therefore try (usually in a polite and constructive way) to diminish the impact religion has on ALL our lives.

see comment No 62, from Damon, on John's Olive Branch post, for some examples.

Tim

I'm not sure if this is a sarcastic comment or not, It should be:

Christianity under attack? Shocking — say it ain’t so!

Robert (on open-letter)

Atheists don't hate god (how can one hate something they don't think exists) they just don't like some of the things some religious people do 'in the name of god'.

It's *still* not working at my end. And yes, I've reloaded the page, checked the different sections of crosswalk, etc., but it ain't workin, bruthu. Apart from crosswalkradio.com, that is.

Cool post.

You folks are Christians, I’m not. I don’t see any reason that means we can’t be friends, or at least civil to each other.