if you were the last atheist standing, would you state your belief under the threat of execution?

Answer 1

Since I refuse to be enslaved the answer is yes. I have of course never had to state my case in an environment that hostile,but I have been in some environments that were pretty hostile to me and I refuse to back down. I'm not to be a slave to their delusions just because they may have at the moment some power over me. The US Army tried that crap and I wouldn't even back down on what they put on my dog tags,wish I could find them now, they were one of the first sets of dog tags printed in Europe that said Atheist rather than No Preference.

Answer 2

Since when do all atheists have beliefs?

You clearly don't understand the meaning of the word atheist, so let's make it real simple...
The phrase "I believe that God exists" can be negated in 2 ways:
1) "I DO NOT believe that God exists."
2) "I believe that God DOES NOT exist."

If you can't see the difference between those two, you are not intelligent enough to participate in this discussion.

Both are atheism -- but the first is a LACK of belief. It's the same as saying "I'm not convinced" or "I don't care"... etc. The second is a positive belief, and only in this case is the atheist required to give evidence to back up his positive claim.

Therefore, asking all atheists to state their beliefs "under threat of execution" is assuming they have a belief to state.

Newsflash: they might not.

Cheers.

Answer 3

I'm imagining this incredibly romantic scene. Our atheist hero kneels, bound before the executioner, the wind gently stirring a few strands of hair free of the blindfold. The Grand Inquisitor holds his head at the prisoner's ear level, pleading: "All you have to do is sign the profession and let them pour some water over you. It doesn't mean anything!" Solemnly, the prisoner shakes a weary head. "I can't betray my disbelief. How could I live with the knowledge that I had turned by back on secular humanism, even in jest? I couldn't do that, not in front of the children!" Sighing, the Inquisitor assumes his full height, straightening his robes and adjusting his headgear, then steps to the platform to pronounce sentence.

Another martyr for godlessness! It brings a tear to the eye! Could I be as brave?

Answer 4

How typical that the first thought of the religious is to torture and kill non-believers. That is the precise reason America’s Founding Fathers excluded any mention of God, Jesus, or Christianity in the US Constitution and made the government of the United States 100 percent secular. There is no difference between fundamentalist Christians and Muslims.


By unanimous vote of the 1797 US Congress:

“As the government of the United States of America is not in any sense founded on the Christian Religion”

http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/diplomacy/barbary/bar1796t.htm

JAMES MADISON: Christianity neither is, nor ever was apart of the common law. Feb. 10, 1814

•The establishment of the chaplainship to Cong[res]s is a palpable violation of equal rights, as well as of Constitutional principles: The tenets of the chaplains elected [by the majority] shut the door of worship agst the members whose creeds & consciences forbid a participation in that of the majority.”

JOHN TYLER: “The United States have adventured upon a great and noble experiment, which is believed to have been hazarded in the absence of all previous precedent -- that of total separation of Church and State.

ULYSSES S. GRANT: Leave the matter of religion to the family altar, the church and the private school supported entirely by private contributions. Keep the church and state forever separate.” (Address to the Army of the Tennessee, Des Moines, Iowa, September 25, 1875)

JOHN ADAMS: “How has it happened that millions of myths, fables, legends and tales have been blended with Jewish and Christian fables and myths and have made them the most bloody religion that has ever existed? Filled with the sordid and detestable purposes of superstition and fraud?” (Letters to F.A. Van Der Kamp 1809-1816)

THOMAS JEFFERSON: “I have recently been examining all the known superstitions of the world, and do not find in our particular superstition [Christianity] one redeeming feature. They are all alike, founded upon fables and mythologies.”

ABRAHAM LINCOLN: “My earlier views of the unsoundness of the Christian scheme of salvationand the human origin of the scriptures, have become clearer and stronger with advancing years and I see no reason for thinking I shall ever change them.” (to Judge JS. Wakefield, after Willie Lincoln's death)

Answer 5

I already stated my beliefs

1 I am an atheist.

2 Religions lead to prejudice and hate

Answer 6

Absolutely

Answer 7

If you were the last atheist standing, would it even matter whether to state your belief or not. I mean, you're the last one so would it matter.

Answer 8

Good question that makes me think. One side of me say I would, one side of me say I won't.

arguement from one side.

I will stay low and then put down all the evidences and argument I have against religion. Will try to persuate the people one by one and start a cult and to wake people up.

The other side of me will say I will rather die that to listen to all these crap people are saying. Consider it will be sort of hopeless when everyone is just brainwashed.

Tough question.

Answer 9

i'm not an atheist, but I would think that since atheists do not believe that there is a heaven or any reward for living a good life after death, this life is all they have. Therefore I would think an atheist would rightly say anything that would save his own butt.

ok seriously what could i have possibly said to offend anyone enough to get a thumbs down..i think my answer is right

Answer 10

I'm stating my belief now with no threat whatsoever. Are you saying that atheists should begin to fear for our lives from Christians?