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Atheists are wrong

Dear Editor:

As I was walking past Morris Library Monday morning I noticed the phrase "God caused 9-11" chalked onto the sidewalk. Underneath these phrases was more chalk about the SIU Atheist Club. In the past month I have seen more atheism graffiti on the sidewalks all over campus than I have ever before, and while Americans are entitled to religious freedom, I take serious offense to the atheists' negative message.

The doctrine of atheism is that there is no belief. An atheist, as a rule, does not believe in a God or gods. The SIU Atheist Club has promoted itself using reason as its guiding principle. To be specific on the definitions however, a person who has reasoned that there is no God or gods would be an agnostic. Atheists simply do not believe.

Besides mislabeling what they are, the Atheist Club's guiding doctrine directly interferes with the statement "God caused 9-11" in many ways. First of all, if you do not believe in God, then clearly he could not have caused anything. The statements outside of Morris were made out of hate to anger people. If whoever wrote this was angry at Christians for any reason, I apologize. The way we evangelize is through love and respect, not through angrily condemning another person.

Clubs and organizations are formed because of a common passion, a common, unifying belief that all of the club's members share. This passion is usually positive. Any club that is formed out of a hate should not be. By writing hateful messages on this campus' sidewalks, the SIU Atheists have forever tarnished their name and associated themselves with other clubs based on hate and misinterpretation˜Nazi's, the KKK and al Qaeda, to name a few.

Brad Pietruszka

sophomore, biological sciences

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