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Originally Posted by OrangeCrate  I wonder if there is a tiny voice inside their head, telling them that they're wrong, and they just can't shake the voice. |
Nah, just my concious mind
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Originally Posted by Rasczak BTW, why don't atheists hate Muslims like they hate Christians? |
Atheists dont hate muslims because muslims arent personally pushing their own religiously based opinions on most of us with any real power. We dont care if xxxxx group wants to enforce sharia law in our country of origin, because we know they dont have the numbers. Christian groups on the other hand do, so when they tell us that evolution is wrong/ID should be taught in schools, or gays are an evil scourge, or that women shouldnt have a right to abort a fetus based on religious grounds. We voice our opinion against them. Both sides of the argument are likely as feisty as each other given a level playing field.
We dont hate christians either, btw, we just argue with them more. And when there becomes a statistically significant number of muslims wherever we live, we'll probably face off with them to. Its not that we agree with them in any way, its that christians are the ones we live with.
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Originally Posted by Jellicletrb Another 2 cents worth (I have about 68 cents worth of 2 cent'ers) We could probably come up with several categories to put Atheists into, but I don't have names for all the categories. In my case, no religious upbringing, read articles like the one in the OP for an occasional laugh, don't hate anyone, and think that everyone of EVERY religion is probably just seeking some kind of purpose or rationale to life. Then we have the one's like the guy that wrote the article, who is very insistent on his views and has to consider himself right, and is probably a true atheist. Then there would be the atheists that used to have faith, who probably still aren't really too sure. And of course, there are the ones who claim to be atheists to 1)tick off the parents, or 2)the hot kid they want to date is an atheist, or 3)no one wants to sit by atheists on the bus, or 4)yada yada yada. Zillions of reasons. |
My two cents, your post is baseless, and i dont agree with your groupings :P
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Originally Posted by Jellicletrb I have no need of hate, nor any need to try to convince people they're wrong...but there are a lot out there that do. |
Nor do most people when the wrong opinion is benign.