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'godless atheist' is redundant.

Just 'atheist' will suffice.

This museum was built by godless atheists who want to profit from true believers!

I can see from the other comments that I'm not the only one thinking it. ;) I'm just trying to imagine what the routine will be.

"Bears are godless killing machines. We know from documentaries like Terminator that robots can be godless killing machines. Don't be fooled by movies like Short Circuit, Johnny Five is just the cuddly cute teddy bear version of a killer robot to get you to lower your guard. And now our government wants to combine the godless killing power of a robot with a teddy bearbot? What, as if the left isn't already dangerous enough, now you've got to give them another weapon? They're trying to fool us with the teddy bear head but real Americans won't fall for it! I'm working on my own plan to counteract this weapon, something involving a bald eagle with a shark taped to it's head. We're still working out the aerodynamic kinks on that one but mark my words, these picnic basket-raiding cybernetic terrors must be stopped!"

Hmm... it's ok but I think Colbert will be even better. Looking forward to it!

I am a Colbert, and I am having a fit as I type. Godless Killing Machine indeed!

Why would I put my life in the hands of a Godless killing machine without a soul?

He may not be a man of science, but he is a man of God and his religious faith was enough to tell him sacrificing all those poor babies to allow a few godless heathens to avoid going to hell for a few months is a bad idea.

I'm not sure, is that sarcasm? Since it's not obvious, I'll assume it's not.

You must be kidding. "Poor babies"? They are clumps of 180 cells. You throw away more every time you flick a booger. It's not a baby. It's not even a growth because it wouldn't have implanted yet. Every time a fertility clinic does an in-vitro procedure, afterward it throws away thousands of similar clumps of cells, just flushes them down the drain.

Y'know, I just reread your message, and now I'm sure -- it must have been a joke...

Is it really a troll though? I think our President was right to stick to his guns and veto short term morally questionable hacks like embryonic stem cells. He may not be a man of science, but he is a man of God and his religious faith was enough to tell him sacrificing all those poor babies to allow a few godless heathens to avoid going to hell for a few months is a bad idea. If they were good Christians they would know that the Lord will reward them with eternity in paradise after they die.

Oh wait, nevermind.

"Hollywood will be able to say anything they want, whenever they want"

If I concentrate on my hate hard enough, will "Republican FCC Chairman" Kevin Martin fall over dead? Because I'd be willing to try...

You're preaching to the deaf. All the rational arguments in the world aren't going to convince the $400-volume-knob crowd that the godless computers aren't ripping the color, warmth, texture, flavour, and smell out of their wax-cylinder and vacuum tube audio.

After all, just look at this chart: you can clearly see how digital audio is ultimately a series of ugly, jagged, sharp steps, while analogue audio is infinitely variable...

since society benefits the individual evolution ought to favor traits that help form and maintain societies. For instance: faith and altruism.
The problem with that idea is that as soon as a selfish person comes along, he immediately has an advantage over the rest of the altruistic "suckers" and has a selective advantage. His "selfishness" genes get passed onto his children while yours are less likely. Eventually altruism will get out-competed. There has to be additional factors for it to work, such as kin-selection in small populations.

The idea of selection for religious faith is an interesting one as well. It often makes me wonder if it's not a case of the "tail wagging the dog". For the last thousands of years there has been huge selective pressure to conform to various religious beliefs...think of the the Dark ages, the Inquisition, countless slaughters of godless heathens. Back in the day you'd better be in church on Sundays or you'd find yourself over a pile of kindling or at the bottom of the river tied to a large rock.

yeah, pretty much the only people who'd follow Jesus if he were alive today would be godless hippies and new-age freaks.

The theory of gravity, which has been pushed on our children by evil secular godless atheist heathens, still remains unproven. We should be teaching Intelligent Falling, which states that Go... er, an intelligent faller pushes all of humanity down to the ground whenever they jump up.

Just remember: not everyone who partakes in Christianity (big C or little c) believes the world was created 4,000 years ago. Some of us actually believe in evolution.

Do you know what double think is? You saying you believe in God, yet you believe in evolution. This is conflict of terms if you understood fully both sides. Simply put, how can you say you believe the Bible, when you don't doubt the first verse? Are you lacking the faith in the Bible or cowardly trying to appease both side of the issues?

To find the truth, we must want to follow the truth, not our friends. If what they teach us in school is true, why do we find T-Rex bones with flexible veins? Cave painting of dinosaurs? Figures of dinosaurs? Tracks of humans and dinosaurs? Why does the Bible speak of in Job? Why do we find dinosaurs bones above horses, pig, human tools, and other things? And there are many others. You just have to go searching for them.

Also, the theory of evolution was loved by materialists to promote materialism (the belief that physical matter is the only reality). Marx loved the Darwin and the theory of evolution. He credited Darwin work in providing a basis for his ideas. His godless ideas brought the death of millions. Darwin himself was very out spoken about God. The basis of macro evolution is based on the lowest levels of proof.

Yup! Goes to show what happens when you let Godless athiests establish the curriculum in schools.

I thought Hitler and the Nazis were devout christians ( fair enough they may not have justified their actions in terms of religion )

It's arguable as to whether Hitler himself was "actually" a Christian, but the Nazi ideology was explicitly, militantly, and absolutely Christian.

The holocaust followed step by step the plan laid out by Martin Luther, father of protestantism, in his book, "The Jews and Their Lies". Hell, Kristallnacht was on his birthday.
Hitler was absolutely a huge promoter of Christianity since he was absolutely opposed to the "godless commies".

So, yeah, the OP is either completely ignorant of the entire history of anti-semitism in Christianity or just a liar.

Christians are quite eager to deny the role their religion played in a couple thousand years of slow roasting jews alive, which the holocaust was merely the culmination of. In that respect they're even worse than the holocaust deniers.

He's a member of the old guard of lawyers, the fast-talking, slam-dunking moralizers. He doesn't care about the facts, facts have a godless liberal bias. It was proven that Cho Seung-Hui did NOT play any video games, much less trained on them- but that didn't stop Ol'Jack from jumping in the minute the first VT student's body hit the floor to claim that he was a GTA maniac.

The worst part is that he actually got airtime to say this complete fabricatio`on national television

So sad...

I will not be happy until every last video game is banned. Video games are the cause of all of society's problems. Stop creating them, you godless hackers.

"Neal mix"?

*shudder*

I don't think I what to know what goes into that, but I'm sure a very large blender must be involved.

It's all good. Lewis and Nietzsche: the one argues for God the other against. I must say, of all dead philosophers and thinkers of old, nietzsche is the best read. /digress.

Lewis's point, I believe, is that morality has always consisted of a basic belief in a higher being to which we must answer -- a higher thing if you will. He uses The Tao to emphasize this. Without it, morality, quite simply, doesn't exist. Fire cannot burn without fuel if you will (my analogy). He mentions castration and then a demanding that the gelding bear fruit.

If you will: once God is gone, people design their own morality and/or, no morality. It may be called morality, but it really isn't.

I would like to list examples, but that's risky. I could explain ww2 germany (nietzsche's influence) stalinism or pol pot (sic?), but again, those are risky, and most folks tend to try and label religion as just as bloody and humanless, but I beleive this isn't the case under examination (more than anything, religion has always tended to right itself, whereas godless systems haven't shown that as of yet).

In any event, lewis's book, Abolition of Man, needs to be read in whole. I believe I mislead you by posting only that chapter which is just part of the whole. His emphasis there -- regarding nature -- is, in part, to simply point out the flawed thinking in believing our growing understanding of the universe justifies the death of The Tao, of God....

Good discussion none-the-less, and I always enjoy a mature person on /.....