Atheist parents, do you despair of the moral rectitude of today's Christian youth? What should we do about it?

Question

Fellow atheists, every day we learn that Christians have more and more trouble keeping their trousers or panties up while atheist children are taught to respect their bodies and to take all necessary precaution against things like STIs and unwanted pregnancy. It seems you can't even find a vice-presidential Christian candidate these days who can't teach her children proper restraint, and we can only hope that the same hypothetical vice-presidential Christian candidate isn't also guilty of bearing false witness - to say nothing of bearing anything else.

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What can we do to halt this moral decline among America's leadership contenders?

Answer 1

Just get them a drug store ring when they are about 9... if they can't get it off , they'll remain virgins forever.

Answer 2

describe a period in human history where there was no religious influence, and that meant that everybody just went around all day holding hands with mutual respect and understanding.

Answer 3

Re-introduce atheism in churches, obviously!

Answer 4

It's hardly their moral rectitude one objects to!  I have no quarrel with xians.  I'm sure (well, not "sure" sure, but you know willing-to-entertain-the-notion sure) that most are good intentioned, honest people of faith.  But when they are not content to live their lives in concert with their fellow believers and allow the same respect to others--that's when I think they are exceeding their bounds.

Answer 5

This entire thread is a joke. What right do you so-called atheists (yes, so-called) have to make a generalization about all Christians in a society? Saying that all Christians are hypocrites because they condemn pre-marital s*x yet ALL partake in it is as ignorant as my stating that all atheists have three thumbs and smell bad. It is just as ignorant for you to state that ALL atheists are shining examples of perfection to society.

As for you, Gelfling: the only people that have been killed by the God you think you are referring to have directly incurred God's wrath. Secondly, the Jews are God's chosen people, he has never hurt them. Get your facts straight. As for your sources, you only give parts of verses and you even use those out of context. Half of these were spoken by people other than God, anyway. That's like me saying that John 3:16 says "the world...should perish...". If you want me to explain this to you further or if you just want to argue your weak point with me, don't hesitate to email me -- its provided.

You disgust me.

And to whoever called The Bible pornographic, just shut up. You don't have any idea what you are talking about, you just think you're pretty funny saying something so absurd.

If you are going to post something on this site, get your facts right before you type -- spare us all of your ignorance.

I cannot hate any of you, nor can I judge you, I leave the judging up to God. The Bible instructs me to love the sinner, hate the sin. All I can say to you (and I hate to say it) is that you are on your way to h**l, and unless you change your ways, that is where you WILL end up. I can try only to help you by educating you in the teachings of MY Lord and Savior Jesus Christ and hoping that you will listen before it's too late.  

Answer 6

Instead of humans, we should have robots. That should fix it.

Answer 7

Yes, it disturbs me that so many of the Christian youth can´t keep their pants on. Oh, the humanity!

Answer 8

Education.

Answer 9

I couldn't help but remember all the claims that teen pregnancy wasn't a problem before "God was kicked out of the schools."  Oh, yeah, and all the claims that teen pregnancy was out of control solely because of pleasure-seeking atheists.  If a Democratic candidate's teenage daughter were pregnant it would be proof that liberalism was evil and immoral, but since it's a Republican, it's just a family issue that could happen to anyone.

Ah, the smell of hypocrisy in the afternoon...

Answer 10

Well real s*x education would probably help.

Answer 11

it seems like many christians don't see why it's hypocritical to preach one thing and do another but they'll justify anything regardless

Answer 12

Pray for Christ return to come quickly.  Let God sat up His Government and put Satan in his place.

God is letting man kind prove to themselves that we can't govern ourselves.  It is just a matter of time before we come to a head of destroying this earth, but thank God right before we do that will be the time He stops us.

No matter where you live, China, Israel, U.S.A, Britain, it don't matter, Satan is the ruler of this world as the Bible tells us.  So until God returns this whole world is going to #^%^.

Have a Blessed Day.  

Answer 13

I just have to laugh.  Overwhelming irony.

Try and think of this scenario,  Chelsea Clinton gets pregnant.  What do you think the right wing pundits would do with that?  But since it is their gal's kid it's a "family matter"

The only one I feel bad for is this girl.  She is 17 and now is a national media story that will not go way any time soon

Answer 14

They are real good at saying=== ''Do as I say, DON"T do as I do!!''

Double standard hypocrites!

My family does have ''family values''!

My daughter did NOT ''get pregnant'' out of wedlock!

But, if she had, I would have loved her anyway, and I would NOT have kicked her out, like many good christian parents do!

You know the ones? They don't want any sexual scandals touching their little lives!!

Answer 15

You are so funny! I love this posting.

I think all you can do is to ban that pornographic book, called the Bible. That is where they get all these evil ideas from!  

Answer 16

Wow, what judgement.  I guess that isnt in your *morality handbook*

Wow

Answer 17

Be gone Obamite!

Vote for the Hero not the....

Answer 18

Children who have been brainwashed into believing that a sadistic, bloodthirsty, killer Jesus-God who drowned, plagued, and slaughtered millions (more than Hitler); conspired to have his own kid/self brutally beaten and killed; hardened hearts so he could torture people; repeatedly COMMANDED his followers to kidnap, rape, hurt, and kill others; and created an eternal concentration camp for torturing Jews and others with the 'wrong' beliefs; is 'love' can't really be helped.  It's not their fault that their morals are askew.  All we atheists can do is be sure to let OUR children know that NONE of that is moral or excusable, and hope that the other children will catch on.

One must assume that since Mrs. Palin's spokespeople claim that pregnancy is a private family matter that she considers OTHER WOMEN'S PREGNANCIES to be THEIR private matter, as well, and NOT one for politicians to butt their noses into.  I heartily agree.  If her daughter's pregnancy and choice are nobody else's business, nobody else's pregnancy or choice are HER business.

Answer 19

We can get rid of religious superstition and nonsense, for starters. Religion is the greatest detriment to morality in our history.