I’m right there with you.

I am an atheist and one of my dearest friends is a retired Canon Reverend Anglican Priest. We have had many a lively discussion of religion(s) and the only thing we have killed together is a bottle of wine. I love him as a humanist, who truly does follow the teachings of Jesus and I respect him regardless of how he got there. I know that it is through his belief in the teachings of Jesus, that he loves and respects me as an atheist humanitarian. When you take away the man made fabrications of religions and follow the teachings of Christ, there is no conflicts between a man of God and an atheist.

There are many many people who have our humanity and never heard of Jesus or a god. I didn't need to read a two thousand year old story to learn to love my neighbor regardless of color or culture. It came naturally intuitively to me and many others. Question, my cousin a lifelong bible thumper, had never heard that jesus threatens people with torture forever for not believing in him. Apparently pastors never have their flocks turn to that page. How could that be? Maybe you can ask your friend?

@@dennislurvey3235 Humans have existed on our planet for around 300,000 years. They soon learned that we are stronger, smarter and more likely to survive, if we live and work together. Rules and ethics (morals) of some form must exist in every social tribe for the tribe to grow and flourish. Jesus reminded us of what we already knew for 299, 998 years.

"I'm an atheist and I'm such a great person! Now watch me tell ridiculous lies about Christianity and the "bible thumpers" who believe in it....."

LOL. its right there! in B&W! is this not also the third book of the Torah aka the Third book of Moses? Geez peeps, RTFM!

@@belgoblax1596 RTFM? Read The F***ing Manual?

Show one religious person that does this

I believe this is one of those verses that Christians like to ignore. If you point it out to them they will find some reason and some way or some verse to disqualify it

@@shadowreveled5107 Oy! Or should I ask: "You rang?"

about the same as Colbert pretending to be conservative. as an objectivist he has points as an American he also has many WRONG points.

Would you care to outline those? I presume you mean regarding religion, given the context, but line up your criticisms. @@Calvaryscout

He of all people doesn't care for that psychotic, archaic babble.

I'll give him a RAMEN 🍜

Christian fundamentalists really love Satan and his teachings but they're afraid to come out of the closet

If churches refrain from engaging in political rhetoric and activities, they can keep their tax-free status, but otherwise TAX THE HELL OUT OF THEM.

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RIP to an awesome, wise curmudgeon

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George said he worshipped the sun and prayed to Joe Pesci.

Is that why I once had a nightmare that a dozen stereotypical Viking warriors were marching up on my high-pitched roof, and when I came outside to see what was the matter, they started throwing blazing porcelain toilets at me - which magically disappeared just before landing. (I'm only 2nd-gen Irish American, from the Dublin area. Vikings founded that city. I had just retired to a tiny town in the blood red bible belt; not friendly territory for a hard left pagan Christian.)

They get to hide behind the claim of being Christian, because everyone else continues to play along with them, despite their obvious, blatant ANTI-Christian actions & beliefs. They are SELF-PROCLAIMED Christians, which, by that definition, means that all the other more-truthful atheists have just as much claim to calling themselves Christians as the average American self-proclaimed maga "Christian" does. Like their "lord & savior", trump, they are delusional FRAUDS!

I'm so far beyond sadness, and moved into the realm of rage.

@@bryanhill1406 I'm at the rage stage as well.

@@bryanhill1406 Been close to there...but resist it. What they say and do is sad and wrong...but we have to hang on to our love...or else we become like them. 😕

He is a fundamentalist How can the direct word of jesus not be the fundamentals The super church prosperity gospel nonsense is the heretical addition

By all means share it over and over again maybe it will hit a nerve to some of the counterfeit christians.

Their festering confirmation bias would fine it totally abhorrent.

Share it with all you know.

@@northleedspoppa ; There is NO 'direct' word of this fictional character jesus, it is just preposterous lies from people that use this to control others. The church was notorious for keeping the minions under thumb!

"It is easier for a Camel to go through a needle than it is for a rich man to go to heaven." Matthew 23

The problem is so many bring bad beliefs with them. As if their own self righteousness saved them.

@@casperkasparov302 Psalm 137:9 Happy shall he be, that taketh and dasheth thy little ones against the stones. Love always, Jesus.

Check out the Jefferson Bible

I’ve been a good scientist and adult since I was four years old. I became a confirmed Methodist. I read the kids Mark without the miracles. Three other gospels are copied from his. The data shows that our DNA created us from a fertilized egg, and in just 4 nucleotides and 23 pairs of chromosomes, She/He says develop, be born successfully, survive famine, warfare, and disease, have children that have children. Then it’s OK for you to get sick and die they can have your farm. We’ve been doing this for 12,000 years. You are able to tell your DNA that you want to live longer with good function and more knowledge. that was the intellect telling the Inner Child to limit the carbohydrates, take your medicines, do you screening. My colonoscopy is due this year.

Same! Not always easy to find something so true and funny all at once

AMEN!!!

I respect their faith unless it endorses awful things.

I don't respect faith. Faith is the excuse you give when you don't have evidence or reason, because if you have evidence and reason, you don't appeal to faith. Faith = gullibility.

@@mcollins476 Right. I suppose, the right word for me is ... I'll tolerate their faith unless […]

@t0dd000 having blind faith without evidence is irrational and a way to deceive yourself into believing things that are not true. People make decisions based on what they believe, and when those beliefs don't match reality, this becomes an issue.

Absolutely!!!

He's new to me. Love him already!

🎉❤ welcome!!! ✊🏼🇺🇸 And just like the so-called Xtians using foot soldiers, we need people to help spread the message of sanity and empathy!!! Jesus, and most other religious leaders were radicals! Jesus was a socialist! Jesus loved EVERYONE and would be ashamed at what his teachings have become!!! Just curious, what helped you come out of the Xtian radicalization and most importantly, to leave republicanism? We need to encourage ALL registered voters to #VOTE to stop the authoritarian and fascist leaning #Project2025 and vote out those that are pushing the vile antichrist Mango Mussolini to become AmeriKKKa’s Orange sH!tler. ✊🏼✊🏽✊🏻⚖️🗽🇺🇸

Great joke, dude!

Thank you for being human and Welcome to our human club.😊

Thank you.. ex Republican and will never support or comprehend the blatant heresy behind the political manipulation of Christianity and the Bible by many in Evangelical circles. Never!

He absolutely nails the hypocrisy of the fake "religious" reich-wing.

Real christianity is an oxymoron.

😂​@@Double_Elle

it's all fake .

MAGA really love Satan and his teachings but they don't want to come out of the closet

Many are called but few are chosen. Thats not about salvation but about preaching the truth about the living God.

If you consider yourself an atheist, you might know that this means you're convinced that gods do not exist. They do not even if you follow Jesus of Nazareth's basic teachings in the same way as you believe in any philosopher's opinion.

But the devil in a choke with gods words

This ain't the truth.

Don't knock it 'til you've tried it.

"The words in red." That is the solid distinction between a genuine charismatic evangelical, like Jimmy Carter, and a proselytizing evilgelical, like Jerry Fall-well. The fundamentalist reads the Old Testament laws, and the letters of Paul. He only quotes Jesus in two places. "I am the Way and the Truth and the Life. Nobody comes to the Father but by Me," and "I am the Resurrection and the Life. He who believes in Me will never die." But the quote is misused. Jesus meant, live via His path (the _way;_ _by_ me). The fundamentalist treats it like a gate guarded by a bouncer: you have to get by me. The context and impact are wrong. It says a lot that Paul, who never met Jesus, broke from Peter, whon Jesus taught, because Paul claimed Peter was not following the will of Jesus! There are actually extremist Paul followers who say Peter betrayed Jesus and is not to be followed. Peter got on his knees and called himself a sinner, when Jesus picked him. Peter wept after deserting Jesus. Jesus forgave him, reasserted his mission, and sent the Holy Spirit into Peter, who ministered in person, not by letters, just as Jesus did. The biggest thing lacking in fundamentalists is, humility. Jesus had it, Peter had it, Moses did not, Paul did not. I remembet Billy Graham being always humble, and I remember him doing a spot on Johnny Cash's show. Every line he said began with "Jesus said..." and that was his morivation. He preached the Gospel. Many "Bible-teaching" people like Jerry Falwell hardly have a word about Jesus. They dwell in old law and in Paul--who was a pharisee! Jesus said, peoplr sin because of the law. I thought it meant you will slip and break rules if there are many. But now, I see what He meant, that people begin to think they control the law, and not Jesus. It is a shame. If they would just read the red words, they would wake up. But Paul and Leviticus supports their view, so they stay blind and deaf. They tithe, but have no love.

I think the whole 50's and 60's thing came from kids who were told young that the red words were actually Jesus speaking, so we read them. Children still feel the spirit and hear Jesus' words ring in their heart. The division that resulted wasn't them' it was the fear of their parents in their reaction to the awakening that was only visible to them in the commercial manifestations and media. More to come.

They gave out pocket New Testament copies to kids in public school when I was about 8. It was never on/in our curriculum but our separate school neighbors kids had to learn what was in it. Ammunition for us I guess.

Bible Thumper?

@AlbertHess-xy7ky Nope. I respect others' right to have their own beliefs. I just practice the love others part primarily.

Muslim beliefs? Pedos?@@stevenanthonycomedy

@@AlbertHess-xy7ky Since when was being a pedo a belief??? Jeeez!

Some people believe in sex with children. It is popular with the scream about Jesus crowd. @@Valfodr_jr

Me too. I am also a fan of Frank Schaffer's Truths as well. So glad I found HIM...today😉😊

Jackson, MS? 😁

Incorrect. It is not considered a sin. It simply made you ritually unclean and not permitted into the Temple or the Mosaic Tent of Meeting and had to do a purification ritual.

That doesn't mean what you think it does. People don't go to church because charlatans like this and the globalist Democrats, globalist mainstream media and social media platforms.

What is the Al Franken Minefield?

Yep. That's what happens, if you eat the wrong mushrooms.

I can't doubt your vision, it's OK to share.

Not always. I have chosen Christianity and go to church occasionally & find it therapeutic -- and I DO NOT endorse the hate that some self-proclaimed "Christians" like to spread and promote. People who ACTUALLY PRACTICE WHAT JESUS TAUGHT won't engage in that hate, which does not have a rightful place in churches. Churches have a duty to FIGHT hate! I SUPPORT THE SEPARATION OF CHURCH AND HATE.

@@glennhecker4422 I don’t doubt that you mean well but our experiences differ greatly. Churches openly advocate war, violence, division, bigotry and hatred. They encourage bigotry and primitive ignorance. They refer to my wife and me as “morally evil individuals”, simply because we love each other and our young daughters.Hitler was a creation of the christian church. He was strongly religious. The first treaty ever signed by nazi Germany was with the catholic church which celebrated his birthday from every pulpit until after his death. Christian churches promote and encourage the rape of innocent young children and other heinous crimes against them. For about 6 months of the year, I spend the majority of my professional life as a Crown Prosecutor, prosecuting christian clergy on charges of child rape and other heinous crimes. My first task in each trial is to have the defendant’s bail revoked, meaning that they will spend each night of their trial, secured in a prison cell, where they can destroy the lives of no more innocent children. The law disagrees with their myopic view of right and wrong and those who love to preach their superiority over the rest of us leave court in a prison van, via the cells in the basement to get acquainted with their new home. Meanwhile, the supposedly “morally evil individual” leaves court by the front steps and drives home to her family.in common with the other 10,000 or so gods, there is absolutely no evidence for the existence of your invisible sky fairy. Your bible promotes slavery and the ownership of women by men. No wonder the vast majority in my country and our neighbouring countries choose to be atheists. We much prefer to be without “ christian love”. Our young daughters understand that churches are dark and dangerous places and clearly understand that if any member of the christian clergy ever approaches them or tries to talk to them that they should create a scene in an effort to draw the attention of any passing police patrol, call 112 on their phones for urgent police assistance

Churches have a DUTY to fight hate. Hate has NO LEGITIMATE PLACE in a church. I belong to a church, and I want to fight against hate. There are others in churches who think this way -- we DO exist. Please do not give up on us! Perfect is one thing I'm NOT... but I will NOT use religion as an excuse for hate. Hate is a CONTRADICTION of the actual teachings of Jesus Christ.

Yes, he did. Can't remember which book in the Bible, but it is mentioned in 1 of the first 4.

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