I have to agree to this, as from Gospel music sprang Blues, then Rock and Roll.
agreed. 
i prefer the atmosphere to more conservative (white) churches.
This is what I found absolutely hilarious about the “Religious Right’s (white churches)” objections to Elvis Presley, being as Gospel music made up the largest sum of his musical releases No it doesn’t escape me that their objections were mostly to his stage antics, particularly with the gyrations, but still.
In some parts of the US it is very true, mainly in the south. Especially in small towns which are often very Christian, atheists are not welcome in the community.
Lets not forget that America is a Christian nation, and as such you may notice that all US media and politicians lean towards a Christian stance in order to appeal to the predominant patriotic, white, christian denominator. Take a dollar out of your wallet and on the back you’ll find “In God We Trust”.
God is institutionalised and in your face if you’re in America. It’s like ideology got stuck in 1950.
Most of that force-fed religious garbage came out of the red scare as a way of saying “we can have religion and you can’t.”
Many of the founding fathers were atheists.
Where did you hear/learn that?
Atheists or Freemasons, have a pick.
you’ll find out when god returns and your buring in hell heed this warning.
Before saying this, I hope any arguments can stay friendly and not become a flame war. If you disagree with me, post a reasonably response, or ignore my post and I will do the same.
I am atheist. I find the idea of religion to be ridiculous. There is no evidence to support it. Catholicism and Christianity have been wrong time and time again. They believed that the heart was the center of emotions, all it does is pump blood. They believed that the Earth was the center of the universe, and threatened the man who discovered otherwise. Biggest of all, they believed (and some still do; Sarah Palin) that the earth was 6,000 years old, carbon dating has smashed this belief. Science and evolution is based off evidence and reason, while religion is based off “Faith.” Evolution has staggering evidence supporting it; we have seen the evolution of viruses from year to year, we have studied fossils of human-like primates, and we have “vestigial structures” (appendix), organs that serve no purpose, that suggest that we once used them, but evolved to no longer need them.
America is not a christian nation. Also in god we trust was only the motto since 1956, which totally sucks compared to e pluribus unum. The forefathers were either atheists, or just extremely adamant about keeping religion and politics separate, because the main reason the pilgrims left england was to escape religion related persecution.
In fact, the Jeffersonian bible is actually pretty interesting. Shows that it’s a good enough story without all the fantastic shit.
Tell your god to go fuck himself. He’s an asshole anyway, sending people to hell for having a free will that he gave them.
It’s cliches like this that don’t help your cause at all, especially when one considers that if a so called God is so petty that it condemns people to eternal damnation for merely not believing in “it” or even worse, for not believing in a specific vision of “it” then it isn’t even worthy of the thought that gives it existence.
^ this.
I’m invoking Godwin’s law.
If there was a god I don’t think he would be so full of himself as to need worship, or, any acknowledgment for that matter.
Godwins Law:
As a Usenet discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches 1
I’m a total christian who goes to church weekly, believes in God, and tries to live a “Christian lifestyle”, and I officially hate you for saying that. That isn’t the way to “convert people”, it just makes people angry for being told to more or less “go to hell”.
I somewhat agree with intooblivion. Mostly because you can’t have the kind and generous “christian God” and then have him condemning people to hell. It just can’t possibly work that way.
They should have waited a few hundred years, the UK is secular and has been for a long time, whilst America has some way to go before true secularity is reached.
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I love how everyone’s pwning conservative Christians but liberal Christians escape every bit of logic here