Does God Exist?

My heart is heavy over the debate between Christians and atheists in our society. When I see atheists denouncing religion, most of it is blasphemous or hate speech against Christianity. I really see no one stepping up to the plate and saying "I am an Atheist. I denounce ALL Gods....the God of the Bible, Allah, the various Hindu Gods, Mayan Gods, Buddha, etc. etc."

It seems to be ALWAYS Christianity. Is this because these people feel so persecuted and demonized that they must lash out at Christians only and single them out so often for these attacks?

I pose this question purely for arguments sake: Could this be characterized as discrimination against Christians? And, if so, would we have a reason to take them to court and sue for damages? Or would that be considered "absolutely preposterous" and "a waste of time" and "Hell no, I'm not going to use MY tax dollars just so YOU can get some relief and prop up your egos. Get a life!" Hmm. Does any of this sound vaguely familiar?

So what exactly IS an atheist? I pulled this definition from wikipedia:

Atheism, as a philosophical view, is the position that either affirms the nonexistence of gods[1] or rejects theism.[2] When defined more broadly, atheism is the absence of belief in deities,[3] alternatively called nontheism.[

Notice that it says god(s) and deity(s).

Now there are variations on atheism, just as there are branches and variations of Christianity. But the above is the best, well rounded definition I will use for my argument.

The author of the book, Atheist Universe, David Mills, took the blasphemy challenge on youtube recently and posted a video using pages from the Bible to pick up dog feces in his home while his young daughter (presumably) filmed the entire thing. In it he uses the f work against God, Jesus and the Holy Spirit. I'm sure that in its own context it was intended to be a blasphemous, humorous video, and no doubt many of his friends and followers got a good laugh out of it.

The video can be found here. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yFve5PaKoco

Here are some examples of actual responses from his camp:

"Hilarious!!!! 5 stars and favorited."
"wonderful. a good example of how the whole ridiculous mess should be treated."
"God created the excretory system....he should deal with it."
"LMFAOhahaha haha h ah ha hha ha omg that was the best video ever. "
"Since God and Jesus don't exist, I see no problem wiping up dog doo with fictional characters.If it upsets you: good. You are deluded."

But on a more serious note, what it really does is put him on a childish, immature and selfish level and even more so, reduces his credibility as an author, public speaker and role model.
He claims to be a proud supporter of the "Rational Response Squad." Well his actions are anything but rational. Here are some responses to support my point:

"Ok... Denouncing a religion is one thing. Im all for it. But totally trashing someone elses beliefs by picking up feces with their bible is fucked up. Its not educational. Its childish taunting and such. This guy David Mills can go fuck himself. Put Nick Gisburne back. He knew how to do it right. PS - it sounded like there was a kid holding that camera. Good language to teach you kids. Maybe you should take a few lessons from the Bible. Forget the fucking unicorns. Teach him some fucking manners. And potty train your dog. "
"First time viewers will be directed to RationalResponse's channel, and will make their opinion of the channel from it. This video will cause an immediate loss of credibility to the channel, and to anyone who is noticed to be a subscriber. This video is in direct conflict to even the name of the channel, much less the goals of the channel. RationalResponse needs to remove this video under their own free will of reason."
"Bet it felt good making this video. Surely it will be praised by the followers of Malcolm X, but it also most certainly will cause theists to become more entrenched in their prejudices, and less likely to listen to, or respect the opinions of others. My response is that this video is not a rational response. "

I could go on and on. I will be posting my own article on "Christian Televangelists" soon and what I think about them, so this is not like I'm just picking on one thing here.

I located an interesting link called "Does God Exist?"
http://www.doesgodexist.org

On this website you will find a link entitled "Why I left Atheism" by John M. Clayton. It's a brilliant read; a firsthand account of one man's journey. No doubt it will be waved off by traditional atheists, however. They don't want to read or see anything like this, yet Christians are forced to endure stories about "Why I'm not a Christian anymore and became an atheist" and so on and so forth.