Atheist Prof Mocks Dinesh D’Souza’s Christian Faith After Guilty Plea
Prior to becoming a filmmaker, Dinesh D’Souza worked in academia. I can’t imagine him saying such mean things about a fellow academic if the situation was reversed.
Jennifer Kabbany of The College Fix reports.
Atheist Professor Mocks D’Souza’s Christian Faith In Wake of Guilty Plea
Conservative pundit Dinesh D’Souza plead guilty Tuesday to breaking federal campaign finance laws.
Cue rude comments from the Left.
“I guess his faith didn’t help him, for according to New York’s Daily News, Dinesh D’Souza pleaded guilty to felony violations of campaign finance laws (he was originally charged with making false statements, but those charges were apparently dropped in the plea bargain),” Professor Jerry Coyne, a renown University of Chicago atheist, wrote on his popular Why Evolution Is True blog.
No surprise Coyne just couldn’t pass up the snide remark.
D’Souza served as a columnist for Christianity Today for about one year in 2009 and wrote What’s So Great about Christianity, which endeared him to conservative Christians, both Catholic and evangelical, Christianity Today reports.
What Coyne misses is that having “faith” doesn’t mean Christians don’t face tough times – some by their own making and others thrust upon them. And actually, it’s their “faith” that helps them through both kinds.
Atheist Professor Mocks D’Souza’s Christian Faith In Wake of Guilty Plea (The College Fix)
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How can you tell when an atheist is lying? Just ask him.
Please. “Atheist” simply means “without a god”. Saying all atheists are alike is like saying all monotheists are alike. (Recall that Moslems, Christians, and Jews are all monotheists.)
Muslims are nit to be classed with Jews and Christians because they are syncretistic pagans, Allah being the moon god.
They have one god, making them “monotheistic”. It’s what “monotheistic” means. (“All poodles are dogs, not all dogs are poodles.”)
“Pagan” and “heathen” are classes of religions, and have nothing to do with the number of gods.
The difference between the atheist and Dinesh is that Dinesh can repent and be forgiven by his God for his sin. The atheist, however, lacking God and unrepentant, carries around the weight of his accumulated sins wherever he goes. Dinesh is a free man, even in jail. The atheist? A prisoner, a beast of burden even though he is outside the jail.
Of the two, Dinesh’s situation is more preferable.
That is a burden that I, as an atheistic pagan, do not feel.
Although, our beliefs are very like Buddhism and Christianity.
That which cannot be proven by empirical methods is just not relevant to why a person should behave in a morally correct fashion, and simply believing in a god or son of god does not excuse behaving in a truly foul fashion, as is taught in some Christian churches (which I attended before converting out of Christianity).