Tell me if this girl'career was impacted by being a Christian. You actually sound to me just like the atheists portrayed in "God is Not dead".
I do not act anything like the atheists in the movie. I do feel love and compassion for others (unlike the businessman), I don't demand Christians stop believing in God (like the prof.), I don't hate God, I don't force others from talking about God, etc.
I'll address the video you linked later on in my post.
Maybe not all atheist behave in the way the professor was portrayed - some certainly do! I've encountered them, heard them and read their comments. Their opinion is the correct opinion, they are angry (at a God they say doesn't exist) rude and abusive. At least many new age atheists - the ones who follow the Richard Dawkins type stance behave in this way.
You bring up an interesting point that contains some truth, but allow me to start off with a few corrections first.
You claim many of these atheists are angry at a God they say doesn't exist. This just isn't true. Many atheists are angry at the idea behind Christianity. They aren't angry at God, but at how people can worship something that seems so made up. You'll also find many atheists, myself included, who will sometimes speak as if God does exist. For example, an atheist might say, "How can you worship a God who demands the death of children?" It's easy to see how such a question might hint that someone is referring to a God they know exists. Indeed, it might be more productive to add "
Assuming God is real, how can you worship a God who demands the death of children?", because this is what atheists are doing when they word questions in such a particular way - they're
assuming God is real only for sake of argument. Christians will do this too when they're referring to atheism saying things like, "Alright, God isn't real. Now tell me, what purpose is there to live now?" Obviously, a Christian who says this didn't just decide God isn't real, it should be clear from their position that they're assuming only for sake of argument.
The professor in the movie said he was mad at God for not saving his mother. It was clear that he wasn't assuming God was real for sake of argument, but legitimately believed there was a God who didn't help his mom. The student in the movie said, "How can you hate something that doesn't exist?" which was the only thing he said that actually made sense. I'm going to digress for a moment and let you know that anger towards God can allow someone to question his existence, and allow them to conclude there was never a God in the first place - but this is much more different than believing God is real, being mad him, and denying his existence despite what they actually believe.
I hope that makes sense to you. I can try to clarify if there's any confusion.
Tell me if this girl'career was impacted by being a Christian.
[video=youtube;54Sn3hLvLQk]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=54Sn3hLvLQk[/video]
I claimed Christian students aren't being forced to reject God in order to pass their classes. This just doesn't happen in the U.S. But even if it did, they would receive not only harsh criticism from Christians but secularist atheists as well. I never said Christians were never persecuted or discriminated against, but I'll address your link anyway.
First, I'd like to state that since she was applying for a private sector job and not a government one, I believe it was her employers right to use whatever reason he wanted not to hire her. The same is true when employers refuse to hire homosexuals, even if I disagree with their decision. It is their right, regardless as to whether I agree or disagree.
The employer didn't hire Bethany because she came from a university that expelled homosexual students. The employer may have been acting hypocritical by not hiring Bethany, but he was simply treating a student from the university the same way the university treated homosexuals - a group of people the employer obviously felt were being wrongfully discriminated against.
Reading some of the other things the employer wrote, it sounds as if he may not hire anyone who's a Christian, though it's possible he was simply mad that a person from Trinity Western applied for the job.
Many Christians argue that employers should be able to hire whomever they want and reject whomever they want based on their religious views. If this is true, then the same must also be said for this particular company as well.
All of that said, it differs from university which should remain secular. But, as you can tell from the above story you brought up, some universities do discriminate against homosexuals - and I'm sure atheists too (but why would an atheist want to join a deeply Christian university anyway?).
Even if we concluded that the company was entirely wrong to discriminate, their discrimination was simply a way of responded to the discrimination presented by the University. So it's obviously not a black and white issue.
Dawkins [
contrived] position at Oxford didn't require much teaching, of course, but how'd you like to have been a Christian in one of his classes?
LOL, I don't care if you've been a straight A student from kindergarten until the day you walked into one of his lectures: good luck getting an A in the class of a "professor" who advocates mocking Christians with contempt.
The portion of Conservapedia you linked quoted a reverend, but it didn't actually reference anything that proved his claims to be true. This is probably because Conservapedia is run by some of the most idiotic people I have ever witnessed. This is the same website that concluded volcanos fired animals through the air, back to their homelands, after the great flood. : |
But I've never heard of anyone such as Richard Dawkin's failing students who refused to admit there was no God. In fact, I'm not sure he even mocked God during his scientific lectures. Dawkins would, however, often speak openly against God - but he never required students to attend those speeches.
And if anyone is under the impression that atheists are never discriminated against, you'd be quite surprised. One example that comes to mind is a YouTuber who goes by the name GrapplingIgnorance. Even though he never brought up religion to his students, videos he posted questioning the validity of his job resulted in him losing his position, while also receiving much hate from students and faculty. He obtained a new teaching position but created a new YouTube account where he now hides his identity to protect himself as a teacher.