As a fervent non-theist, I will use the bible that Republicans cherish so much...

[Gravitycollapse]

To demonstrate exactly why they actually despise it.

Is not this the kind of fasting I have chosen: to loose the chains of injustice and untie the cords of the yoke, to set the oppressed free and break every yoke? Is it not to share your food with the hungry and to provide the poor wanderer with shelter-- when you see the naked, to clothe him, and not to turn away from your own flesh and blood? ...and if you spend yourselves in behalf of the hungry and satisfy the needs of the oppressed, then your light will rise in the darkness, and your night will become like the noonday.

Isaiah 58:6-7;10

Then he will say to those on his left, 'Depart from me, you who are cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels. For I was hungry and you gave me nothing to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me nothing to drink, I was a stranger and you did not invite me in, I needed clothes and you did not clothe me, I was sick and in prison and you did not look after me.' They also will answer, 'Lord, when did we see you hungry or thirsty or a stranger or needing clothes or sick or in prison, and did not help you?' He will reply, 'I tell you the truth, whatever you did not do for one of the least among you, you did not do for me.'

Matthew 25:41-45

If there is a poor man among your brothers in any of the towns of the land that the LORD your God is giving you, do not be hardhearted or tightfisted toward your poor brother. There will always be poor people in the land. Therefore I command you to be openhanded toward your brothers and toward the poor and needy in your land.

Deuteronomy 15: 7, 11

One man gives freely, yet gains even more; another withholds unduly, but comes to poverty. A generous man will prosper; he who refreshes others will himself be refreshed.

Proverbs 11:24-25

[TxDemChem]

1. I'm joining your club

I don't mind religious people who keep their church out of our government business, but they deserve to have the bible thrown right back in their faces. These Teabaggers are the most un-Christianly people I have ever had the displeasure to see.

[malokvale77]

2. I'm right there with you.

[NuclearDem]

3. The attempts to mold Christianity and capitalism would be laughable if it wasn't so sad.

You can be one or the other, but not both.

[truebluegreen]

5. I know a guy who claims to be a devout Catholic

and who also talks about "2000 years of revelation" and reveres Ayn Rand.

I kid you not.

[randome]

4. How can you be fervent about being nothing?

Just kidding! But rub their faces in it all you want and you might peel off one or two. The rest are too comfortable with cognitive disconnect.
[hr][font color="blue"][center]Stop looking for heroes. BE one.[/center][/font][hr]

[NuclearDem]

6. In all seriousness (though I know you were joking) I get that a lot when I say I'm an atheist.

People think because atheists are sometimes in a position to argue against a claim that a deity exists that they're militant or actively spend their time trying to disprove deities.

In reality, it's just a reaction to people making the claims in the first place.