I am a firm believer! But I do know when to back off. You should respect others beliefs and demand their respect as well! Now "Atheists" dude. What's with the attitude man! Back off! And another thing missionaries are just trying to be nice and help people so stop being so hateful! Did you know that some Chinese officers found a secret church and said that anyone who still wanted to believe in Jesus was to stay in the circle. Well guess what only some got out. They shot the rest including the children! Do you think that's funny?! Well do ya?!

My dear Christian friends.  Let's start by examining what it means to be atheist:  first off, you don't believe in god.  If you don't believe in god, then either you don't know about god, or satan implanted the seeds of confusion in your brain.

 Agree so far?  Good.

Logically, since satan is present, Atheists must be in league with him.  Aye?  So Atheists are really just satanists.

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not at all, you religious fools.  Pardon me for not spouting about jesus.  As I recall, it says 'people of all backgrounds'. 

Learning about jesus, to anyone other than a christian, is exactly like learning about a flying speghetti monster.  I doubt this is the first time you've heard it.

It's sad really, when you want to put prayer in schools.  Did you know 'under god' was ADDED to the pledge of allegiance?

It was.  Or, your holiday.  Christmas.  Let me tell you something:  early christians petitioned the ruling powers to erect a holiday for their messiahs' birth.  They were denied.  So what did they do?  They celebrated on an already celebrated holiday:  THe winter solstice!

Easter is just ther vernal equinox...come on people, use your brains, not your liver.

I'm just saying if you step back and look at what you believe logically, it's rather ignorant and stupid.

Let's accept, for a minute, that there is an all knowing, all powerfull, and all benevolent diety in the sky.  Why in hell would he kill little children?  so they can go straight to heaven?  What about being 'born a sinner'?

Don't be stupid, folks.  There is no entity in the sky, watching your every move.  Morals for the wrong reasons are a lot more dangerious for no morals at all.

That Jesus is not Christian is easy to explain.  A christian is 'one who belongs to the party of Christ'.  His followers are the christians not Him, See Acts 11:26  Anyone who acknowledges Jesus as the Christ, as the Son of the living God, and follows Him will also be called a christian.  A great honor indeed.

Jesus claimed that He was fully God and fully man.  This is made clear in the first chapter of the gospel of John.  Jesus allowed himself to be killed so that the punishment meant for you and me would be transferred to Himself by His death on the cross. Jesus proved He was God by rising from the dead three days later.

The disciples testified through their own deaths that the resurrection was true.  Everyone except John and Judas died a painful death.  Every one of them could have escaped death if they would have testified that the resurrection of Jesus was a hoax.  Think about it, no man would die for something that didn’t happen and under the penalty of death most men would deny the truth.  The martyrdom of the disciples is a very powerful and compelling testimony.

I strongly believe that we should all respect each other's religious beliefs; in retrospect, we are all worshiping the same one god even if we call him/her by a different name.  It is the individual's responsibility to not become a fanatic and to not be a thorn in the religion.  To express and expose the positive acts and not the negative fanatical ones, as we so clearly see almost daily.  And, finally, to continue to search for the truth; not the truth that we want to hear but the founded documented truth as best can be found.

I wish you all the many blessings the universe has to offer and infinite bright returns of the day.