However, I think it’s an understandable response to 40+ years of escalating Arab / Muslim terrorism, culminating in 9/11 and the Islamization by intimidation which has overtaken much of Europe. This guy believes that Islam is a threat to the West, and he’s angry about it. It is, and he should be. In my opinion he is not nearly as factually ignorant or morally abtuse as the people who argue that all cultures and civilizations are equal.

1. No one in England or the US would have been offended, in 1943, by a bumper sticker that said that “the only good German is a dead German.” Was it true, in 1943, that “the only good German is a dead German”? Of course not. We can certainly see, 65 years later, that such a sentiment would have been “hateful” as applied to Germans who heroically opposed the Nazis, to innocent German children, to loyal Americans of German descent, etc. And of course, there were Nazi collaborators who were not ethnically German.

But did countless millions of perfectly decent people, confronted by the onslaught of Nazism, have moments (or years) of feeling, and saying, that the only good German was a dead German? Certainly. (If you doubt this, I suspect you aren’t old enough to have family members that lived through the war.) Did that level of un-nuanced rage and “hate” help to defeat Nazism? Certainly. Could our parents and grandparents have won the Second World War if their hands and psyches had been tied by 21st century fears of being “jingoistic” or “zenophobic”? I doubt it.

1. So how do you, as an atheist, feel about the rest of this guy’s bumper stickers?

However, I think it’s an understandable response to 40+ years of escalating Arab / Muslim terrorism, culminating in 9/11 and the Islamization by intimidation which has overtaken much of Europe. This guy believes that Islam is a threat to the West, and he’s angry about it. It is, and he should be. In my opinion he is not nearly as factually ignorant or morally abtuse as the people who argue that all cultures and civilizations are equal.

1. No one in England or the US would have been offended, in 1943, by a bumper sticker that said that “the only good German is a dead German.” Was it true, in 1943, that “the only good German is a dead German”? Of course not. We can certainly see, 65 years later, that such a sentiment would have been “hateful” as applied to Germans who heroically opposed the Nazis, to innocent German children, to loyal Americans of German descent, etc. And of course, there were Nazi collaborators who were not ethnically German.

But did countless millions of perfectly decent people, confronted by the onslaught of Nazism, have moments (or years) of feeling, and saying, that the only good German was a dead German? Certainly. (If you doubt this, I suspect you aren’t old enough to have family members that lived through the war.) Did that level of un-nuanced rage and “hate” help to defeat Nazism? Certainly. Could our parents and grandparents have won the Second World War if their hands and psyches had been tied by 21st century fears of being “jingoistic” or “zenophobic”? I doubt it.

1. So how do you, as an atheist, feel about the rest of this guy’s bumper stickers?

Soon all we that follow the supreme talking monkey will inherit all the nice 4000 square foot houses and pick up trucks of you infidels ( after we chop off your head of course ).

But maybe we will spare your infidel women in order to practice for that day when we will go to heaven and receive our 78 virgins. Until that time, 78 soiled and fat infidel American women will just have to do.

Praise Allah and praise the supreme talking monkey…

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Soon all we that follow the supreme talking monkey will inherit all the nice 4000 square foot houses and pick up trucks of you infidels ( after we chop off your head of course ).

But maybe we will spare your infidel women in order to practice for that day when we will go to heaven and receive our 78 virgins. Until that time, 78 soiled and fat infidel American women will just have to do.

Praise Allah and praise the supreme talking monkey…

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I hate him for the same reason I hate the guy who wants to blow up a bus full of school children so that he can get 70 virgins. If you believe it’s wrong for me hate such a person because “he just has another point of view” then you subscribe to a moral relativism that I cannot respect.

Child molesters don’t have a different but equal view of childrens’ rights than I do. Hitler didn’t have a different but equal view of how to treat Jews than I do. These groups are just wrong. And so is a man who puts “the only good arab is a dead arab” on his truck.

As far as you being a good Christian, I respectfully disagree. I think you’re very likely a good person, but I don’t think you’re a Christian. I think you, and all other moderates, have invented your own religions.

God specifically said that gays are to be killed. God specifically said that people who work on Sunday should die. Not be punished. Not have to repent. No. They should be stoned to death. Adultery. Disrespecting your parents. All these things are punishable by death.

This is not some atheist talking. This is the word of God, and there is no “update” provided by Jesus on these points either (which would make no sense to begin with). The fact is that God himself, via the Bible, has ordered all these things, but you, Jonathan have chosen not to believe in them.

Check out this text: http://www.evilbible.com/ten_commandments.htm And then go look up the referenced sections in your own Bible. You’ll find that they are all there. Unchanged. Lasting. Demanding. And God specifically says that you’re not to change them.

“You shall not add to the word which I am commanding you, nor take away from it, that you may keep the commandments of the LORD your God which I command you. — Deuteronomy 4:2″

But you did take away from it. You think that MAN’s time and MAN’s law has some bearing on whether you should listen to what God specifically told you about how to live your life. So God didn’t know that the year 2008 would come? God didn’t know that it would be wrong to follow His word exactly in 2008? Of course he did. He knew exactly the choice you’d have to make between his law and the law of man, and you choose not to believe in many parts of His. You just pick out the nice parts.

Again, what you’ve done is make your own religion. You can’t pick and choose, my friend. Either you believe what the Bible says, and you follow it exactly, or you’re doing your own thing.

Anyway, I’m glad you’re doing your own thing; you’re a better person for it. I’m just saying, you can’t point to yourself as a good Christian, because you’re good precisely because you aren’t one.

The way to be a good christian is to petition governments all over the world, especially your own, to embrace the law given to us by God, as per the Holy Book. And to try as hard as you can to live up to it exactly.

Moderates don’t do that. Fundamentalists do. And that’s what makes them the real Christians.

Anyway, I’m not trying to be offensive here, and I hope I haven’t been. I’m just trying to raise awareness regarding what the Bible really says. Most who profess to be Christians aren’t even aware of the commandments or what God says the punishments for violating them are.

And when you ask them why they don’t still stand today the answer is…”Well, that’s just crazy…that was a long time ago…”

Really? Was it a long time ago for God? What part of “Don’t take away from these commandments” don’t you understand? If you’re a true Christian, and either God’s word or man’s laws were to be wrong over time, which would it be?

Man’s laws, right? Not God, right? Right. So go check this out and see if you can (or should be trying to) live up to them:

http://www.evilbible.com/ten_commandments.htm

Cheers,

-Daniel

I hate him for the same reason I hate the guy who wants to blow up a bus full of school children so that he can get 70 virgins. If you believe it’s wrong for me hate such a person because “he just has another point of view” then you subscribe to a moral relativism that I cannot respect.

Child molesters don’t have a different but equal view of childrens’ rights than I do. Hitler didn’t have a different but equal view of how to treat Jews than I do. These groups are just wrong. And so is a man who puts “the only good arab is a dead arab” on his truck.

As far as you being a good Christian, I respectfully disagree. I think you’re very likely a good person, but I don’t think you’re a Christian. I think you, and all other moderates, have invented your own religions.

God specifically said that gays are to be killed. God specifically said that people who work on Sunday should die. Not be punished. Not have to repent. No. They should be stoned to death. Adultery. Disrespecting your parents. All these things are punishable by death.

This is not some atheist talking. This is the word of God, and there is no “update” provided by Jesus on these points either (which would make no sense to begin with). The fact is that God himself, via the Bible, has ordered all these things, but you, Jonathan have chosen not to believe in them.

Check out this text: http://www.evilbible.com/ten_commandments.htm And then go look up the referenced sections in your own Bible. You’ll find that they are all there. Unchanged. Lasting. Demanding. And God specifically says that you’re not to change them.

“You shall not add to the word which I am commanding you, nor take away from it, that you may keep the commandments of the LORD your God which I command you. — Deuteronomy 4:2″

But you did take away from it. You think that MAN’s time and MAN’s law has some bearing on whether you should listen to what God specifically told you about how to live your life. So God didn’t know that the year 2008 would come? God didn’t know that it would be wrong to follow His word exactly in 2008? Of course he did. He knew exactly the choice you’d have to make between his law and the law of man, and you choose not to believe in many parts of His. You just pick out the nice parts.

Again, what you’ve done is make your own religion. You can’t pick and choose, my friend. Either you believe what the Bible says, and you follow it exactly, or you’re doing your own thing.

Anyway, I’m glad you’re doing your own thing; you’re a better person for it. I’m just saying, you can’t point to yourself as a good Christian, because you’re good precisely because you aren’t one.

The way to be a good christian is to petition governments all over the world, especially your own, to embrace the law given to us by God, as per the Holy Book. And to try as hard as you can to live up to it exactly.

Moderates don’t do that. Fundamentalists do. And that’s what makes them the real Christians.

Anyway, I’m not trying to be offensive here, and I hope I haven’t been. I’m just trying to raise awareness regarding what the Bible really says. Most who profess to be Christians aren’t even aware of the commandments or what God says the punishments for violating them are.

And when you ask them why they don’t still stand today the answer is…”Well, that’s just crazy…that was a long time ago…”

Really? Was it a long time ago for God? What part of “Don’t take away from these commandments” don’t you understand? If you’re a true Christian, and either God’s word or man’s laws were to be wrong over time, which would it be?

Man’s laws, right? Not God, right? Right. So go check this out and see if you can (or should be trying to) live up to them:

http://www.evilbible.com/ten_commandments.htm

Cheers,

-Daniel

And you know what? Maybe he claims to BE a Christian, but actually isn’t one. Isn’t it society that keeps telling us all Muslims aren’t radicals or extremists? That Islam isn’t actually about the violent teachings in the Koran? If that statement is true, how can you stoop to this guy’s level and generalize Christianity?

I’ve always figured you for a pretty level headed guy, but here lately, you have been bashing Christians left and right. Not that I mind, as I can take criticism and I realize you’re entitled to your opinion. I just think it’s pretty close minded of you to generalize all Christians in a lump category. I am a Bible believing Christian and I think you’d be suprised at what I do believe and don’t believe.

I don’t agree with his bumper stickers at all, but wow Daniel, who pissed in your cornflakes lately?

And you know what? Maybe he claims to BE a Christian, but actually isn’t one. Isn’t it society that keeps telling us all Muslims aren’t radicals or extremists? That Islam isn’t actually about the violent teachings in the Koran? If that statement is true, how can you stoop to this guy’s level and generalize Christianity?

I’ve always figured you for a pretty level headed guy, but here lately, you have been bashing Christians left and right. Not that I mind, as I can take criticism and I realize you’re entitled to your opinion. I just think it’s pretty close minded of you to generalize all Christians in a lump category. I am a Bible believing Christian and I think you’d be suprised at what I do believe and don’t believe.

I don’t agree with his bumper stickers at all, but wow Daniel, who pissed in your cornflakes lately?