Why do some atheists display a crucifix or images of Jesus in their house?

[Anonymous]

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They probably do profane rituals in front of it. Atheism is demented satanic movement that rose out of the French Revolution as the Cult of Reason which was driven by Islamic Freemasonry. They directly attacked the Catholic Church and created the first modern police state and genocide. They burnt nuns in ovens by the dozens to render fat to make soap for atheists to bath in. They skewered babies on bayonets and sometimes juggled them between bayonets for amusement. They skinned Christians alive to make clothing and bags from human skin like Buffalo Bill in The Silence of the Lambs. It rubs the lotion on the skin... They are a group of sick fucks.

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@Lliam I directly quoted a couple enlightenment era authors that are looked to by atheists movements. Those authors are often referenced by atheists academics. Anyone can read their books and see that I told the truth and that you are a classless lying lowlife.

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@Lliam As to details on the French Genocide by Atheists people can reference French Historian Reynald Secher's works on the War in the Vendée. He documents methods of execution in A French Genocide: The Vendée. There more like putting people in ovens and cooking them alive, filling boats with people and then sinking them to drown people in mass and so on. The Atheists are sick fucks. It's well documented history. But people like you will lie to try to hide it.

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@Lliam One example in the historic record is on page 134 of the aforementioned book and I quote:

"Testimony about atrocities committed is plentiful. In Clisson, mutilated corpses and still living people were thrown into a well of the castle; fortyone people were drowned in Bourgneuf-en-Retz. In Angers, the skin of the victims was tanned, to make riding breeches for superior officers. “The man named Pecquel, surgeon-major of the 4th Battalion of the Ardennes,” explained a witness, Claude-Jean Humeau, in a declaration to the tribunal o f Angers on November 6,1794, “skinned thirty-two of them. He tried to force Alexis Lemonier, a leather worker in Ponts-de-Cé, to tan them. The skins were transported to the house o f a man named Langlais, a tanner, where a soldier worked them. These skins are at the home of Prud’homme, a sleeve maker.. .”

I have the recipes. You just have propaganda.

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@Lliam We can continue on page 112

"The procedure was simple: the human cargo was piled into an old fishing boat fitted with scuttles; once the boat was out in the water, the scuttles were shattered with ax blows, water flowed in from every direction, and in a few moments all the prisoners were drowned. Those who escaped were
immediately put to the sword (hence the term sabrades, coined by Grandmaison) by the executioners watching the spectacle from their light ships. A witness at the trial of Carrier, Guillaume François Lahennec, testified as follows:

At first, the drownings were done at night, but the revolutionary committee soon became familiar with crime; it only became more cruel, and from then on drownings were done in daylight. . . First, individuals were drowned with their clothes on; but later the committee, led by greed as much as by a refined sense of cruelty, stripped the clothes from those it wanted to immolate to the different passions driving it. I must also speak to you of “Republican marriage,” which consisted of tying
together, naked, under the armpits, a young man and a young woman and throwing them into the water. . .

A woman named Pichot, the twenty-fifth witness, who lived at la Sècherie in Nantes— that is, just opposite the drowning place— declared that on 2 brumaire she had seen carpenters make holes in a barge; the next day she learned that they had drowned “a large number of women, several of whom had children in their arms,” and that another day sixty prisoners were found dead, suffocated in a fishing boat; they had been “forgotten” for fortyeight hours. Carrier boasted to the inspector of the army, Martin Naudelle, “of having put two thousand eight hundred brigands through it,” in what he called “vertical deportation in the national bathtub,” “the large glass of the churchgoers,” or “patriotic baptism.” In fact, 4,800 people were swallowed by the Loire, “that revolutionary tor****,” in the course of the autumn of 1793 alone..."

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@Lliam Atheists are sick fucks and you should be ashamed of defending their genocide of Catholics.

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@Lliam At the bottom of page 134 it continues:

"In Clisson again, on April 5,1794, soldiers o f General Crouzat burned 150 women to extract fat from them. “We made holes in the ground,” one of them testified, “to place cauldrons to catch what fell; we had put iron bars above and set the women on top. . . then above them was the fire. . . Two of my comrades were with me for this affair. I sent ten casks of it to Nantes. It was like embalming fluid; it was used in hospitals.”

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@Lliam There is hundreds of pages of this sort of malicious barbarous cruel and inhumane evil activity documented. Atheism is a sick religion.

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@Lliam We continue on page 124

The president o f the district expressed his surprise on January 25: “Your
soldiers, who call themselves Republicans, indulge in debauchery, dilapida­
tion, and all the horrors o f which even cannibals are incapable.” Captain
Dupuy o f the “Liberté” battalion sent two equally explicit letters to his sis­
ter on 17 and 26 nivôse (January 1794):
Down dreadful roads our soldiers cross the drear deserts o f the Ven­
dée. . . Everywhere we go we bring fire and death. Neither age, nor sex,
nor anything else is respected. Yesterday, one o f our detachments burned
a village. A volunteer killed three women with his bare hands. It is hor­
rible, but the safety o f the Republic urgently requires i t. . . W hat a war!
Every person we see, we shoot. Everywhere the earth is littered with
corpses; everywhere flames have brought their devastation. . .
“Offenses are not limited to pillage,” wrote Lequenio.
Rape and the most outrageous barbarity show up at every turn. W e have
seen Republican soldiers rape rebel women on stones piled on the sides
o f the main roads and then shoot and stab them when they leave their
embraces; we have seen others carrying nursing babies on the point o f
a bayonet or a pike that had run through mother and child in a single
stroke.
And a surgeon named Thomas wrote: T have seen women and men
burnt. I have seen one hundred fifty soldiers mistreat and rape women, girls
o f fourteen and fifteen, and then massacre them, and toss from bayonet
to bayonet tender infants left next to their mothers stretched out on the
ground.”

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@Lliam You see I gave you the kid friendly version of events in the revolution. The genocide is far worse than I initially described it, but since you wanted to be a lying shit stain I'll rub the gory details in just to expose how evil you are.

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@Lliam continuing on page 251

Maignen called for “striking without distinction: stop using small measures that suggest lack of resolution.” The holocaust was coupled with the total ruin of the region. For Barère, “it is a matter of sweeping the soil of the Vendée with cannon and purifying it with fire.” “Patriotic” fire, was
Lequinio’s ironic comment. The reprisals were thus not frightful but inevitable acts that occur in the heat of battle in a long and atrocious war, but indeed premeditated, organized, planned massacres, which were committed in cold blood, and were massive and systematic, with the conscious and explicit intention of destroying a well-defined region and exterminating an entire people, women and children first, in order to eradicate a “cursed race” considered ideologically beyond redemption...

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@Lliam That's what you stand up to defend... Now everyone knows what you Atheists are.

[Lliam]

No idea. I didn't know they did.
Atheists don't believe in gods, supernatural beings, Heaven, Hell, or afterlife. They believe in science and reason, not ancient mythology.

But maybe some like Jesus morality and the way of treating people that he exemplified without believing that he was actually God.

[contentious]

Yet they look to figures like Diderot for their spiritual guidance who said atheism is "the opinion of those who deny the existence of God in the world. The simple ignorance of God doesn't constitute atheism. To be charged with the odious title of atheism one must have the notion of God and reject it". This means atheists have to know God and then turn their back on God rejecting God's law in favor of Sin. Another figure they look to in history is Voltaire who stated that he wanted to live long enough to "see the last king strangled by the entrails of the last priest". Atheism is a violent movement that sees the God of Israel as it's enemy.

[Lliam]

@contentious. You are stereotyping based on bullshit. You are also, obviously hostile toward anyone who doesn't believe in the Bible.
Go try to prove your point somewhere else.

[contentious]

Lying and trying to image cheapen isn't a counter argument to well documented facts.

[Lliam]

@contentious. Trying to "image cheapen"? What does that even mean?
Well documented facts. LOL. More like spin from some Bible thumper.
If you believe the Bible then you wouldn't know a fact if it bit you in the ass.
You are the one believes in God, Satan, and all that mythological nonsense. Atheists don't. No atheist give a fuck about the words of philosophers, either.

[Entertained_Adult]

@Lliam "mythological nonsense" is the exact bullshit that blinds bible thumpers.

If you learn that all ancient mythology is perfectly symbolic of truth, you'd automatically realize that the bible is not meant to be interpeted literally, for the most part.

[Lliam]

@Entertained_Adult. You're right. All cultures have their creation myths and hero legends. The same was true of the Judeans who wrote down the book of Hebrew mythology.

I don't know if they are perfectly symbolic truth, but they attempt to explain things that people don't understand, and they create social order, unity, and cultural identity.

Every civilization in the world, all the way back to the first humans, created myths. It could be said that those myths were the products of the earliest "philosophers" - the wise men, priests and elders. And, when we study them now, they do contain wisdom and truths about human nature.
Joseph Campbell thought myths are very insightful and I agree.

The problem is when true believers take those myths literally.

[Gwendoline]

Family history or art. I've never known an atheist to do so.

[Shiprex]

The crucifix was actually appropriated as the Christian cult long ago and just represents a vertical cross which is found in engineering and other structural pieces as well as art works for design purposes. It's like the swastika being robbed by the Nazis and their current representatives from Asian cultures who liked the style of it.

[genericname85]

you don't have to believe in god to have memorable experience or postive views of the christian church and their religious doctrin. it's like if you read the bible entirely as anekdotal story not believing even one thing in it is actually true, then it's still a good story right? so what's wrong with decorating your house with that? people buy harry potter or lord of the rings decorations for their house too.

[genericname85]

and i think the overwhelming majority of people do not thing that the lord of the rings stuff or harry potter actually exist xD

[MrChinaski]

Niels Bohr, physicist, legendarily hung a horseshoe above his door. When asked 'Niels, I didn't think you would believe in that?' he responded 'I don't. But they tell me it works anyway.' Same-same.

[AviatorTom]

Perhaps at one time they weren't atheists?

Or maybe they are agnostics, not sure if there is a god, so why not show a crucifix?

Or maybe non-atheists live in the house too?

[DryGermanGuy]

Maybe they just like the artwork. I like to visit churches on a vacation, but to see the architecture and decorations not as a religious person.

[slatyb]

Seems odd. Almost all my friends are atheists, and none of them do that.

[Anonymous]

Do they? In my 30 years of life I have literally never seen or heard that.

[Anonymous]

I'm not religious and I've never seen an atheist with religious symbols.

[exitseven]

They are keeping vampires away

[SmokinAces2000]

I would assume for decoration

[DrPepper12]

That's not a crucifix. Its bungee jump in Jesus™

[Pohjolan]

Probably a family heirloom.

[Agape93]

I've never seen that