Jesus rocks. I love my God. He’s given me strength in the toughest of times. His burden is light.
Well good for you! No, seriously. I'm glad that you draw strength from your faith. Everyone should have a source of inner strength. Mine is my wife, believe it or not.
As for my atheist friends. It’s interesting that your belief in “nothing” manifests itself in the same way that anothers belief in something does, that is proselytizing it.
Erm. Um, no. See, we're not out to convert you. While I would very much love for you to start thinking critically, and to take your religious hands off of my secular government, I really couldn't care less if you became an atheist.
Yet when I or other religions do it you get pissed off and say that people are pushing their religion on you, yet you are doing the same thing.
Slight difference here. I'm assuming you're talking about the whole bus thing. Countless buses and advertisements have shown the theistic side of things. In fact, do you remember a few years back, that billboard campaign that was nothing but supposed messages from God? And it's fine. As far as I'm concerned, you guys are welcome to pay for advertising as much as any other group. That isn't proselytizing. Trying to make the laws of a secular nation reflect Biblical Christianity, or trying to force schools to teach Biblical Creation instead of scientific facts-that I object to.
There probably is a God, so talk to him, you and the world would be better for it
You know, that's entirely possible. The vast majority of people who believe in any form of god are usually pretty decent folks who use their religion, like you do, as a source of strength. For the most part, they tend to follow the nice stuff, like, "Don't judge," and "Do unto others". Unfortunately, there's an extremely vocal minority that believes that it would be really cool if everyone believed as they did-or else.
And a sidenote. I know alot of Atheists
Somehow I doubt it, especially based on your next comment.
and though they will protest a great deal about the next statement, I’ve always seen it to be true. I’ve never met a happy atheist. Never.
You must have an extremely weird definition of the word "happy" then. Most atheists that I know tend to be fairly content with their lives. What things they aren't content about, they tend to try to fix.
