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- Liam76, on 10/10/2007, -78/+817If this was on a Koran it would be a hate crime.
- kingoftonga, on 10/10/2007, -144/+443Digg should come with a disclaimer. A disclaimer that holier-than-thou non-Christians will stereotype a faith of 2 billion people based on the actions and beliefs of a few.
- RanIntoTheDevil, on 10/10/2007, -138/+406Mom, look! I am being anti-religion on Digg! Am I cool yet? Am intellectually superior?
I mean, I am not Christian or a member of any religion, nor do I believe in the medieval "God", but this is just stupid. The bible has some great philosophy in it, and just because some nut-jobs decide to take the thing literally doesn't mean you have to write the whole thing off as stupid and useless. - JonnyTrombone, on 10/10/2007, -86/+322So I guess all of the freedoms in the Bill of Rights are good except Freedom of Religion, right?
- shichiaikan, on 10/10/2007, -31/+209Problem: People use the Bible to do all kinds of stupid, silly, or blatantly violent things...
Solution: Christians should actually start READING the bible instead of just listening to what some Zealot told them it says. :P - blobzorz, on 10/10/2007, -130/+257So wait, you hate it when we push our religion on you, yet, your going to push atheism on us? Wow.
- facelesscoward, on 10/10/2007, -85/+198This is stupid. Even if you're not a Christian, the Bible is very often used as a secular historical text that can be weighed against other evidence from the past. Sure, there may be stuff in it that is not true, but that doesn't make the whole thing a work of fiction.
- scfcats, on 10/10/2007, -25/+133As a Bible believing Christian, I half to apologize for those of us that suck. This kind of stuff doesn't offend me so much because of all the crazy things people have done in Christ's name. I think we deserve it, but not Christ. Christ commands us to love and care for people, something I struggle with daily. So my initial reaction isn't anger, but shame and hurt for those who have been negatively effected by those who come in Christ's name. We (Christians) need to do a better job.
- cusoman, on 10/10/2007, -27/+1161 John 3:13 - Do not be surprised, my brothers, if the world hates you.
- Prophet1013, on 10/10/2007, -54/+142Jeez, we get it already, ok? People on Digg aren't big on Christianity. But for goodness sakes, grow up a little bit and stop digging intolerant crap like this. A little respect will take you a long way in life, even if you don't agree with what other people might believe.
- Skitzzo, on 10/10/2007, -23/+110Christians get slammed on Digg for being closed minded and bigoted. I guess this is "enlightened"...
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -17/+83Sadly, most people don't have decent cognitive and objective reasoning abilities. It is like someone came along and wiped out the critical thinking ability of most of the world.
- 0ddity, on 10/10/2007, -25/+89Apparently Blobzorz has never read the bible. Everything the sticker says it contains, it does in fact contain. How is that pushing an atheistic agenda?
- KraftDinner101, on 10/10/2007, -31/+93How do you know they're Atheist?
- Skitzzo, on 10/10/2007, -44/+105"Main Entry: big·ot
Pronunciation: 'bi-g&t
Function: noun
: a person obstinately or intolerantly devoted to his or her own opinions and prejudices; especially : one who regards or treats the members of a group (as a racial or ethnic group) with hatred and intolerance"
Seems to me this pic pretty much defines bigotry... - funderbolt, on 10/10/2007, -10/+70The Freedom of Religion is great. I love Freedom of Religion. However, the Freedom of Religion does not include respecting other people's religion. This message falls under the category of Freedom of Speech.
Which one do you value more Freedom of Speech or censoring people critical of a religion? - aefven, on 10/10/2007, -26/+84I can't get on Digg over the last few months without seeing this sorta stuff almost immediately. It is hate. I am personally not bothered by this picture, it's just one of those things. But i am truly troubled by the increase in this sort of story. I log in and i see clearly written insults about Christians or belief in creation. Digg is on the verge of being a Christian hate site and i would love to see this issue addressed. My faith is not knocked by this.... it does not change the truth of the reality of Christ. It does not doom the submitter to eternal damnation.... it just makes coming to Digg unpleasant for me. I wanna see this discussed on Digg-nation and hear the founders opinion on closed minded atheists using this site to be worse than the people they joke about.
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -15/+71@ skitzzo Christians are the only group you can bash like this. I love this kind of stuff because Jesus was the first revolutionary man to really say equality is a good thing. Don't stone the street whore because you're no better yourself. Christians get bashed because they turn the other cheek. Muslims would burn an embassy if this were a Koran. Don't believe me? Remember those stupid cartoons of the profit Muhammad?
- GeneralFailure0, on 10/10/2007, -43/+98It's a joke, relax. You're hardly the persecuted minority.
- ByronT, on 10/10/2007, -17/+72Yeah, except for Jesus, but who cares about him these days?
- murch33, on 10/10/2007, -14/+66I've never had to tell an atheist to go ***** himself because he knocked on my door at 8:00 on a Saturday morning.
- burrosk, on 10/10/2007, -47/+98This is immature and ignorant at best. Yes, some people take the Bible absolutely literally, but I'm pretty sure you will find many educated Christians who understand that the Bible should be taken in context and that many of the stories serve as allegory. You are treating Christians as poorly as most Americans treat Muslims - by believing the extremists are the majority.
- zeroMPHfallover, on 10/10/2007, -25/+74How is this pushing atheism on you?
- teh_techie, on 10/10/2007, -2/+49yeah... I hate when the bookstore throws a 30% off sticker on my books! Dammit, those don't come off!
- KatieBee, on 10/11/2007, -67/+112
digg has sunk to a new low.
disappointing. - psyjoniz, on 10/10/2007, -9/+53"just because some nut-jobs decide to take the thing literally doesn't mean you have to write the whole thing off as stupid and useless"
umm, you do realize thats pretty much the case with all warning labels? some moron did something that required a label. - bpmdub, on 10/10/2007, -13/+56You mean like how my CD collection has been vandalized with "Tipper Stickers" by the Christians that find them "Morally Offensive"?
- thepuma77, on 10/10/2007, -40/+83So much our religious freedoms have turned into a circus of arrogance.
- cusoman, on 10/10/2007, -17/+57The picture in question is not questioning the religion, it is outright denying it and leaving no room for rational discussion. This digg "story" was made as flame-bait, nothing more, nothing less. It should come as no surprise that Christians who come to Digg are responding this way.
- Anachronus, on 10/10/2007, -21/+59Defacing any books with permenant stickers is offensive.
- JonnyTrombone, on 10/10/2007, -0/+38Are we looking at the same 1st Amendment? Because I see this: "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof". That last part is what people are talking about when they mean "Freedom of Religion".
- veilrap, on 10/10/2007, -26/+64Sad, but true.
- HiddenCanuck, on 10/10/2007, -34/+71I'm actually encouraged to see the tide of negative comments to this.
It's not clever. - Skod, on 10/10/2007, -19/+55buried as being older than the dinosaurs that weren't mentioned
- gerran, on 10/10/2007, -12/+47The constitution provides freedom of speech and freedom of religion. If you profess your beliefs, I'm free to speak my mind and remind you how absurd your beliefs are. If your belief can't withstand a photoshopped image, you should think really hard about what you believe.
- weizbox, on 10/10/2007, -16/+51How would this be pushing atheism? It's a warning label that has creditable statements. This would be pushing the knowledge of safety onto others, just as cigarettes have warnings... but not pushing atheism by any means since it is only on one book that is even interrupted many different ways within the religion. Some of those ways already do take into account that it is no literal, which already clears a good bit of the warning out of the way.
- arbulus, on 10/10/2007, -29/+63I absolutely hate the "persecuted christians" *****. Christians act like their world is falling down around them and how everyone in the world hates them and they are so afraid because of their faith.
but:
How about being afraid to tell someone that you're an atheist because you're afraid of what might happen.
How about deciding that you no longer want to go to a particular church, and then find out that your family will no longer speak to you because of it. How about being afraid that you wife may leave you because of that family pressure?
How about being part of one of the statistically most hated demographics of people, just because you choose no religion?
You want to talk about persecution? This country is a borderline theocracy. Christians are not in anyway persecuted. - ilkeryoldas, on 10/10/2007, -223/+257Can anyone sell us some of these stickers (ones that are almost impossible to remove) so that we could go around all bibles and stick them on?
- AndrewJC, on 10/10/2007, -20/+53So that makes it okay, just like how black people can tell white jokes, or women can tell jokes about men?
It's not right in EITHER direction. - muledoggie, on 10/10/2007, -20/+51If that was the Koran, you'd be dead now ....
- ChazHollywood, on 10/10/2007, -37/+68Buried for being disrespectful of others' beliefs.
- OneHine, on 10/10/2007, -27/+58I suspected that Liam76 was a troll at first, but then I saw all the Christians in this thread who acted as the existence of this picture itself was a hate-crime, and I realized that Liam was completely correct. Why is it perfectly acceptable to hate and discriminate against other people if you rationalize it with religion, but the second you question that religion it's a hate-crime?
- sremick, on 10/10/2007, -4/+35Look, I don't care if you're Christian or whatever, but when you offend the English language, you've gone too far.
- DiggsOnlyNeoCon, on 10/10/2007, -14/+44Hey generalization boy.... your powers are needed on youtube forums.
- OneHine, on 10/10/2007, -29/+58You're absolutely right. The belief that a cosmic Jewish zombie who was his own father can make you live forever if you symbolically eat his flesh and telepathically tell him you accept him as your master, so he can remove an evil force from your soul that is present in humanity because a rib-woman was convinced by a talking snake to eat from a magical tree is completely valid and true. I just hope all these skeptics realize that they'd better accept God's unconditional love before he tortures them forever.
- KatieBee, on 10/10/2007, -67/+94wow. people actually advocating committing a crime against people who read the Bible. it's called vandalism and destruction of property.
hey, yeah, let's put offensive stickers that won't come off on someones property because we don't agree with them! what a great idea!!
genius. - InsomniaSlim, on 10/10/2007, -4/+27(1) Child's Superman Costume
Warning: Do not attempt to fly. - Cyber_Akuma, on 10/10/2007, -14/+37Digg definitely seems to hate us...
- OneHine, on 10/10/2007, -9/+32So what happens if they read Leviticus? The Bible is a mixed bag, with a great deal of hatred and evil in there. Trying to pretend it's all roses and love and that all the hate was made up by Falwell and Dobson just isn't realistic, sadly.
- KraftDinner101, on 10/10/2007, -5/+27No one said an Atheist made this. Everyone is just assuming. Assuming makes an ass out of you and me!
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