tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4764946987133813099.post8752976411558584035..comments2024-01-29T01:22:14.621-08:00Comments on Makarios: Oprah’s atheist promoThesauroshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13305052511095551483noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4764946987133813099.post-39558461211791621202009-05-14T12:46:00.000-07:002009-05-14T12:46:00.000-07:00yeah well i'm an american who lives and works in e...yeah well i'm an american who lives and works in europe and america and believe me i was tired of being asked "how could you people have voted for an idiot twice?" in the pubs. i tried to keep my passport hidden but the accent gave me away.dbhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16802513796174789730noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4764946987133813099.post-63781565572084439072009-05-14T10:58:00.000-07:002009-05-14T10:58:00.000-07:00In reference to Oprah's remark that as long as “yo...In reference to Oprah's remark that as long as “your heart is right (God will welcome you with open arms," I'm wondering how she knows this is true?<br /><br />Jesus spoke of Sons of God and Sons of the Devil. Whatever was He talking about?Jeff Carterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04502136139528025066noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4764946987133813099.post-27417029431537518792009-05-14T10:05:00.000-07:002009-05-14T10:05:00.000-07:00Sorry dorian, I didn't scroll down far enough to s...Sorry dorian, I didn't scroll down far enough to see your reply. Ya that would have been a scary duo. Honestly? I didn't think Americans had the mojo to elect someone based on intelligence. For so long now there has been a string of Presidents each one dumber than the one before. This was like a breath of fresh air for those of us living elsewhere and looking in.Thesauroshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13305052511095551483noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4764946987133813099.post-15581326280539351272009-05-14T10:01:00.000-07:002009-05-14T10:01:00.000-07:00Ya, I understand what you're saying, and technical...Ya, I understand what you're saying, and technically I agree with you. However, for all intents and purposes, functional atheists don't have any beliefs / thoughts about God either. In fact I would offer that functional atheists think less about God than do "true" atheists. Nevertheless, can you see that the behaviours of "true" atheists and those of <br />"funcational" atheists would be essentially the same? Except perhaps that functional atheists wouldn't blog about how God doesn't exist or about how stupid people are for believing in God. They'd just go to Starbucks.Thesauroshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13305052511095551483noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4764946987133813099.post-7648084653586072562009-05-14T09:59:00.000-07:002009-05-14T09:59:00.000-07:00i don't watch oprah but if she did have that much ...i don't watch oprah but if she did have that much influence in defeating the republican candidates then i'm grateful to her. i can't imagine a government run by gi joe mccain and 17th century inquisitor palin.<br /><br />dorian<br />http://tothewire.wordpress.comdbhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16802513796174789730noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4764946987133813099.post-67480813369784058032009-05-14T09:42:00.000-07:002009-05-14T09:42:00.000-07:00by your definition, "functional atheists" are not ...by your definition, "functional atheists" are not atheists. atheists have no god belief. what you are describing is agnostics/deists/unaffiliateds.<br /><br />this does explain how you, and everyone you knew, were atheists 20 years ago, at a time when about 1% of the US was an atheist.PersonalFailurehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03034292023591747601noreply@blogger.com