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Belief Follows Truth: Why do the Skeptics make futile attempts to make fun of those who believe?

Why do they make fun of us? Is it because they think we don’t understand that they’re hurting and they’re lashing out at God? Let the reader know that we hurt also and we tend to get angry with God at times because we do not understand His ways. Yet, we believe that God reassures us in due time and that we will understand and be comforted.

Let the reader also know that there is a difference between getting angry and getting hateful. Anger does not distort the mind but hatred does distort the mind. As God’s Word says, “Be angry, and do not sin”: do not let the sun go down on your wrath. Ephesians 4:26 His Word also says, But they have done this to fulfill the word that is written in their Law, ‘They hated Me without a cause.’ John 15:25 And, His Word also says in John 15:18: “If the world hates you, you know that it hated Me before it hated you. Through their hatred toward God and toward us, they have ridiculed, mocked, and insulted us in vain. They think that by not believing in God that they can’t hate Him which is a lie. The truth is, that their non-belief toward God is a testimony to their hatred toward Him. They may beg to differ but they can't change the truth.

18For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who suppress the truth in unrighteousness, 19because what may be known of God is manifest in them, for God has shown it to them. 20For since the creation of the world His invisible attributes are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even His eternal power and Godhead, so that they are without excuse. Romans 1:18-21

And, 1Only fools say in their hearts, “There is no God.” They are corrupt, and their actions are evil; not one of them does good! Psalm 14:1

Their futile mocking includes their ignorant knowledge of God’s Word and they arrogantly display that ignorance in their attempt to discredit Him. They also try to fit the one true God, Yahweh, into their agenda of false gods, including those they’ve made up themselves thinking that this will somehow justify their non-belief in Him. To their frustration, they find that it is impossible to do. Disbelief in God doesn't mean that He's not there.

5 I am the Lord, and there is no other; There is no God besides Me. I will gird you, though you have not known Me, 6That they may know from the rising of the sun to its setting That there is none besides Me. I am the Lord, and there is no other;
7I form the light and create darkness, I make peace and create calamity; I, the Lord, do all these things.’ Isaiah 45:5-7

Skeptics have nothing to support what they believe, and yet, they still make fun of us who believe. Dejection,They’re like filthy pirates on a sinking ship mocking those who sank them. Will they ever learn the Truth?
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badminton · 61-69, MVIP
I never knock another person's religion. I just demand that they respect the Constitutional separation of Church and State, that they respect the religious freedom of others, including atheists, and that they acknowledge our public institutions are secular.
GodSpeed63 · 61-69, M
@badminton
Constitutional separation of Church and State,

Just to set record, straight, Separation of Church and State cannot be found anywhere in the The American Constitution. It was written by Thomas Jefferson to a Baptist Church promising them that the government will not interfere with their religious practices.
badminton · 61-69, MVIP
@GodSpeed63 That is the term commonly used for the First Amendment's protection of religious freedom. The first Amendment reads:

"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof"
GodSpeed63 · 61-69, M
@badminton
"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof"

Doesn't say anything about Separation of Church and State.
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Roadsterrider · 56-60, M
@badminton True, there is no mention of the separation of church and state in the constitution.
Diotrephes · 70-79, M
@DocSavage And the amazing thing is that the dummies were too dumb to realize that those were not the real Ten Commandments.
DocSavage · M
@Diotrephes
You don’t expect them to actually read the bible, do you ?
Diotrephes · 70-79, M
@DocSavage
You don’t expect them to actually read the bible, do you ?

Not really. After all, not one person has ever had enough faith to do what the Jesus character said such a person can easily do. They get all of their religious information from silly Hollywood movies and conmen prosperity preachers.
Graylight · 51-55, F
@DocSavage et al.
The First Amendment contains two clauses that prescribe the government's relationship with religion. In the first instance, the Establishment Clause states that "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion." In the strictest reading, the Establishment Clause proscribes any adoption of an official religion by the federal government. More broadly, the phrase functions as a way of assuring that the federal government will not adopt any stance in favor of or against any religion. However, the Supreme Court has tolerated a certain degree of government involvement in religion. For instance, the Court has allowed government funding to go to private religious schools and prayers to begin certain legislative meetings, as in Town of Greece v. Galloway. In that case, the Court ruled that a town hall meeting that began with prayers, predominantly given by members of different denominations of Christianity, was not a violation of the Establishment Clause, in part because legislative prayers are for the legislators and not for the public.

The second clause of the First Amendment that deals with religion immediately follows the Establishment Clause: "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the exercise thereof." Where the first clause prohibits Congress from adopting any particular religion, the second clause prohibits Congress from interfering with an individual's exercise of religion. This second clause is called the Free Exercise Clause. The Free Exercise Clause protects an individual's right not only to believe what he or she would like but also to practice it. The clause protects individuals from laws that would expressly inhibit them from engaging in religious practices.
Legal Information Institute, Cornell Law

The US Federal government may, however legislate and enforce the way in which certain religious beliefs are expressed, such as polygamy and animal sacrifice.

This is all the Constitution allows for. Everything is a court's interpretation of the text.