I have been married to a Christian lady for twenty years. I was a Atheist when we married. I told her I was not a Christian. Granted we disagree on religious issues but relationships are not about religion! Oh, crap did I write that out loud?

If there is a devil, he is even embarrassed at the bigotry of Pat Robertson.

1) Pat is “correct” based on his narrow interpretation of a biblical passage. He (ironically) follows the lead of the mythological Belial he references by quoting scripture to his own purpose.

His claims that “no fellowship [can exist] between an atheist and a believer in God” and that atheists “serve the devil” are inflammatory and would be enormously destructive to human society if taken seriously by any meaningful fraction of the population.

2) You offer no support for your claim that marriage “work[s] better” between “committed Christian[s] who [love] God with all their heart, mind and strength” or “If your relationship with God through Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit suffers, your marriage will suffer” beyond simple assertion and appeal to an authority which any non-Christian will reject.

3) With regard to any of the above declarations being “common sense”, I fail to see how they can be, when Christians represent a minority of the world’s population. (Take a minute. Think it through.)

4) The objective here is not to slander Christians. The objective is to expose people who (regardless of their reasons) accuse atheists collectively of “having no moral barometer”, of “serving the devil”, of not being able to “have fellowship” with non-atheists, of being “phony”, and of any number of other negative qualities or behaviours. If we don’t accept these kinds of public attacks on other communities, we shouldn’t accept them when they’re made on atheists either.

5) No person or group should have to “tolerate” slander or libel.