It, just like the Flying Spaghetti monster, serves a purpose. The first is to put examples up of other people doing it so those who follow the mob mentality can easily get out of their religion.

Secondly, it pokes fun at the whole thing. What omnibenevalent omnipotent being would not forgive someone who isn't omnibenevalent or omnipotent and was created to make mistakes?

Since it seems every word leveled in your argument could come down to poor definitions, I thought I'd note the definition of antitheism.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antitheism

An antitheist is defined by the Oxford English Dictionary as "One opposed to belief in the existence of a God." The earliest citation given for this meaning is from 1833. Furthermore, an antitheist may be opposed to belief in the existence of any god or gods, and not merely one in particular.

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First of all, I apologize for any offense this thread instilled. It was not intended to be an arguement or insult, merely a suggestion.

Ok, I don't want to get into a debate about atheism vs agnosticism, vs agnostic atheism. I call myself an agnostic. If that means by your standard that I am an agnostic atheist, then whatever. It wasn't the point of what I said. I was just introducing that I wasn't entirely sure what the board defined as theism.

Funny question. Other than that, I agree.

That wasn't the point I was trying to make. But whatever.

It wasn't a dictionary. In my personal experience, most atheists I have spoken with, and myself included, tell me they hate when christians preach to them. And why must atheism always be "prove the christians wrong"? Why not be content with the knowledge or belief that they are wrong? And these aren't christian arguements. If I was argueing for christianity A) I'd be kicked out of here B) I wouldn't be agnostic (or whatever you want to call me) and C) I probably wouldn't be on this forum in the first place.

And yes, preaching and evangilizing (sorry spelling is not my strong suit) is a perfectly ingenius method of perpetuating its existance. And I also agree that without furthering knowledge, we would end up in the dark ages again.

I can easily see that you're antitheist. And yes, I'll admit, I happened to stumble across the youtube video this morning, and have been watching and reading about it since. But no, I don't know all you're arguements. This was ment to be offered as constructive critisism, but I in no way intended to change the whole mission of the site/movement. Just a couple thoughts on it. Pardon my capitalization of atheism. I have a bad habit of capitalizing things. Sorry.

I suspect many don't mind the conversation as much as they feel uncomfortable of the ludicrous subject matter being presented as fact. Nevertheless, there are plenty of people that don't "hate" christians preaching.

That's not atheism, that's respect for humanity.

There are plenty of atheists who are too clueless to realize they need to speak up. *cough*

Because I'm not willing to take it up the ass when all it takes is saying "no." If I knew they were wrong, as I watched them base important decisions in life on their wrong beliefs and I didn't speak up, I would want to be considered immoral, disrespectful, and/or hateful.

This post is a smidgeon better, trust me, your arguments have been submitted by Christians right here on this site.

Nope look around there are plenty of Christians on this site.

Nope, there are plenty of agnostic Christians. In fact I'd wager the majority of them are.

Like I said, there are plenty of theists here.

 By the way, Welcome to the forums, Weristgott!

 We're glad you're here.

    Some i suspect take the blasphemy challege because they are able to show that they are against religion and it's ideas of how life must be lived, religion does in many parts of the world  dominate society, States, Finland, various latin american countries, various countries in Africa and the middle east. As such atheists or thoses without religious beliefs should and do have the right (human rights) to speak up and voice their opinions, they shouldn't be forced to live under conditions based on superstition and religous authority which does nothing more than control the population based on a book.

    I myself have no problem with people believing in god, i do however have a problem when religion starts to tell the rest of society how to live, what laws should be passed and what legistation should pass or not pass. As we have seen recently in history (umm last 5 years) religion is the reasoning and the logic used by many, even the president of the USA invoked god as his reason for war in Iraq and basically dismissed all evidence contrary to his reasoning (UN stated there were no weapons of mass destruction.....and there WERE no WMD.) Why should we as a society live under religious and superstitious beliefs? Do we as Atheists do not have a right to be heard? Those of a religous beliefs have a voice so should those without it. 

Maybe this will help you.  These were the early/raw notes for the concept of The Blasphemy Challenge.

The Blasphemy Contest

Goals: Provoke conversation about the religious indoctrination of children. Erode the credibility of Christian talking heads by forcing them to defend some of their their weakest ground -- the "rules" of salvation and the idea of Hell. Make Christian belief an object of ridicule. Cause Christian parents to reexamine what they teach their children and why.

Method: A stunt that appears to be dooming children to Hell. The Rational Response Squad will launch a contest in which people are invited to submit videos of themselves courageously denying Jesus, God and the Holy Spirit on church property -- thus dooming themselves to Hell forever. The contest will offer special rewards to young people and will be framed largely as a promotion for people under 18.

ANTICIPATED REACTION...

The WorldNet Daily treatment...

(this is an example of what a story about the stunt might look like in a conservative publication)

Atheists bribing children to deny God

A national atheist organization is offering rewards to schoolchildren who videotape themselves on church property denying the existence of God.

Every child who creates a video receives a free DVD of the atheist-propaganda movie "The God Who Wasn't There," and the winner of "Best Blasphemous Video" will receive $1000. Adults are also allowed to participate but receive fewer rewards.

On the contest's official website, children are instructed to make a video that includes a shot of the child in a church saying, "I deny that Jesus, God and the Holy Spirit are real. It's all just pretend."

The Rational Response Squad, a grassroots atheist organization that claims over X,000 operatives, asserts that the child bribes amount to "de-indoctrination."

"Religion hurts a lot of people, but children are victimized the most by it," says Brian Sapient, the leader of the Rational Response Squad. "We're just giving children the opportunity to state the obvious -- that these mythological tales are no more real than Santa Claus. This could be a liberating moment for a lot of young people who are currently oppressed by bizarre religious ideas that have been forced on them."

"These children are playing with their eternal souls," says [Christian theological expert]. "If they are young enough they may be forgiven, but older teens are certainly at risk. Blasphemy against the Holy Spirit is unforgivable. This is a sick, despicable contest with deep theological implications."

Etc....

yea, these are good ideas, from what I gather in the "goals" section. But I still hold that the Blasphemy Challenge, will do nothing but sour most christians against us. Yes it got us publicity, yes there are probably a couple more kids thinking about it (thats awesome), and maybe theres a couple christians who started thinking about it. But it's still a shock factor. Just because Punks have mohawks and have publicity because of it, doesn't mean its good publicity. Let's face it, we're not a well loved group of society. There are those among us, that are simply the "Boo god, fck the xians" angry types. But thats all they see. If you ask Jon Doe on the street what he knows about atheism, he will likely point you towards the angry atheist stereotype. But we're not all ignorant angry people. Most of us know more scripture than xians, most of us have actually thought about religion, most of us apply logic rather than faith to things. Finding a way of making that side public would be amazing. And I sincerely hope something like that is possible. I just don't think this "blasphemy challenge" piss off the xians, is the right way to do it.

Sorry, but atheists tried "live and let live" and respect and keeping politely quiet for the last thirty years or more and our reward has been anti-abortion killings, restriction of stem cell research, pedophile priests, 9/11, restriction of condom use in Africa and South America, Terry Schiavo, kids not getting medical care, the Ten Commandments in public buildings and attempts to force intelligent design into public schools. We are pissed, and for good reason, and if Christians don't like us that way they can take their fairy tales back into the church where they belong.

The Blasphemy Challenge is about saying "here we are, this is what we don't believe in and that's OK." When you cower in the face of Christian indignation, all you do is buy into their paradigm that denying the Holy Spirit actually means something. It doesn't, and we shouldn't care that they think it does because it is what WE believe that dictates our actions, not what THEY believe.

I'll repeat that: it is what WE believe that dictates our actions, not what THEY believe. This is the undeserved political victory that Christians have won in the last decades. They have this entire nation, founded on secular principles, acting in response to Christian beliefs and principles. It's gone on long enough and sitting home, staying quiet and being respectful is not going to change it. 

DITTO.