Nice article.
God is overrated.

Nice article, great read :)

lol I was about to TL;DR the OP when I decided to just check out a random line, next thing I knew I had read the whole thing XP

I'm an atheist,and I approve of this article.

Being Christian isn't just about believing in a god. It's a small part. It gives you a moral compass and makes being good easier because there's someone helping you along the way. I personally don't believe in a god as such but there's some good lessons to be learned by combining christian teachings with common sense and adapting it to a spiritual progression as you go through life. Spiritual = NOT religious in the classical media impossed version of "religion".

Ricky simplifies it way too much, but if it works for him then that's great. If you want to do the best and do it the easiest way it's worth looking into some philosophy based christan books, you don't have to believe in god to get a lot from them and actually understand that the negative press about Christianity is not the true core of it, it's simply what the vast majority follow. You know, the useless old farts who go on a sunday when they retire, THAT is not religion and they are a stain on the whole idea.

Don't even get me started on islam. That's simply disgusting and abhorent in nearly all ways, from it's core to it's people. I'm not just being racist, after doing a fair bit of reading on it. It's a religion that is doomed to destruction by it's own doing.

Crikey I sound religious and I'm 100% not though.

??? It's the central part. If you don't believe in God but still call yourself a Christian then God won't like you (although you shouldn't care since you don't believe in him, but then you also shouldn't call yourself a Christian!).

I have, and do think it was well written.  I've also seen many other well-written articles  that were written by people of faith ;).

That being said, don't fully agree with it, but it did make some decent points.  

I do think his mother was a poor defender, seeing as how if someone questioned my beliefs (actually some of my good friends who are Atheists/Agnostics have questioned me, and we have had intelligent discussions, which involved no name-calling ;) ), I would not say "shut up."

I also don't say nor think that Christianity "owns" good virtues, and I don't believe Atheism, Islam, Judaism, etc own it either, but to say that it can't contriubte, I think is just ludicrous.

I do question why you single out Christians though :?.

Hmm... You should check out the link in my signature. It is one of the reasons to why I stopped being a Christian a couple of years ago (unlike my hardcore-Christian family). It should be an interesting read :)

Did, and it doesn't do anything for me to change my faith, but it is a good question, and my answer to it would be he would go to heaven, in my view.  I also don't see how that could change anyone's belief, regardless of faith.

Mother fucker stole my joke!

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