Speaking as a believer, I think you are misinterpreting this. The passage does not say that all atheists are fools, it says all fools are atheists.
The term 'Fool' probably means someone who is mentally retarded, as it did when Jesus was alive. The only people who would think that there is no God would have been mentally retarded, and then other atheists simply followed.
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"Speaking as a believer, I think you are misinterpreting this. The passage does not say that all atheists are fools, it says all fools are atheists."Speaking as a person who can read and think his way out of a wet, paper sack, I think you have it backwards.
Of course, Matt 5:22 says that anyone calling others fools is in danger of being sent to hell.
If we use your interpretation, in I Cor 3:18 Paul says that smart people should become retards so that they will believe Xian theology.
"The only people who would think that there is no God would have been mentally retarded, and then other atheists simply followed."
It seems unlikely persons who could reason well enough to not believe Xian theology would follow a retarded person.
Well, there you go making statements without a bit of basis to back it up. This is just another example of a fundie making shit up so as to make it fit the way you want it to. The dead giveaway is when you state "The term 'Fool' probably means..." Don't gives us a bunch of "probably means," give us facts. Oh, and BTW, quoting from the Babble does not constitute facts that will be accepted here.
Armchair linguistics AND armchair psychology/history, both dead wrong.
C'mon guys, OF COURSE only mentally retarded people wouldn't believe such sane stories as ufo's, talking animals and unicorns. I mean, what's with you people? You'd have to be CRAZY not to think that the entire world was flooded and an old drunk managed to wrangle 50,000,000 species of animals, insects, bacteria, plants and dinosaurs on board! Of COURSE a man could live inside the belly of a whale! I mean you'd have to be DEFICIENT not to believe that when jesus was crucified that hundreds of saints rose from their graves and began milling about the townspeople!
I don't know, FundamentalunderscoreH; I had some minor mental problems when I was 9 years old, and I was a theist at the time. I didn't become an atheist until I got better. (Of course, I wasn't retarded , so he'll be able to jump through the loophole there.)
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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