This is a standard character assassination ploy. Obviously those non believers are only driven by the baser motivations, like showing people how smart they are, and whatnot.
I suppose it comes as a shock to you that anyone could take a look a religion, and decide that they don't believe in it out of logic and reason.
Funny. assuming the commentary of this forum by many is representative of the world of atheist, it's not any character assassination ploys. It's an observation. And, it is a shocker that folks are actually using their "logic" and "reason" and comment as they do when discussing God, Jesus, and Christianity.
huh? Remind me again where people said they don't believe in god because they believe god strong arms those who believe?
Take a peek at some other threads and posts... seem pretty readily available.
wouldn't they have to believe god exists to believe he was strong arming?
I don't recall where anyone said this, but I do recall that people didn't want state decisions made by religion or religious special interest groups attempting to force specific religious values on other people.
What? We have a seperation of Church and State in this country, unlike most muslim countries. Because our country was founded on certain Judeo-Christian values, of course our current laws will have those same themes. However, the attack on Christianity goes much deeper now, and one is blind if you don't see it. The new social progressive agenda has been very clear on this point.
An athiest usually believes that religion is a product of man, not that they think god is too tough with his followers.