Many people are hesitant to identify as atheists because of the social stigma they may face, making it hard to pinpoint connections and differences among this group.
Aaaaand there we have yet another religious projectionist.
“Maybe if those atheists would stop giving valid criticisms and became religious instead, they’d feel more comfortable being in the open”
Maybe ask atheists in the middle east why they don’t come out? Nah, they don’t want to die
Maybe ask atheists in southern and mid wesrern US states why they don’t come out? Nah, they don’t want to be ostracized by their families and friends for “being an evil baby eater”
Somebody else already posted the Wikipedia link here about state atheism. Atheists are no more innocent than other people.
Maybe it’s radical, even unfathomable; but it’s almost as if the only pathway with any chance of peace is one where enough people can come to recognize that every. single. person. has their own set of beliefs, and the only kind of accord that has any chance of working for everyone, is one that actively supports diversity of belief.
This is true (and I am an atheist). Our disability is that we have to own our shittiness instead of saying “God told me to do it”, which in the eyes in a lot of theists, is a get-out-of-jail-free card.
No, it’s not true, see my other comment to the same post you replied to. Atheist can be antagonistic at times for sure, but with a good reason. We don’t want religious people dead just because some atheist rule says so.
Aaaaand there we have yet another religious projectionist.
“Maybe if those atheists would stop giving valid criticisms and became religious instead, they’d feel more comfortable being in the open”
Maybe ask atheists in the middle east why they don’t come out? Nah, they don’t want to die
Maybe ask atheists in southern and mid wesrern US states why they don’t come out? Nah, they don’t want to be ostracized by their families and friends for “being an evil baby eater”
Somebody else already posted the Wikipedia link here about state atheism. Atheists are no more innocent than other people.
Maybe it’s radical, even unfathomable; but it’s almost as if the only pathway with any chance of peace is one where enough people can come to recognize that every. single. person. has their own set of beliefs, and the only kind of accord that has any chance of working for everyone, is one that actively supports diversity of belief.
This is true (and I am an atheist). Our disability is that we have to own our shittiness instead of saying “God told me to do it”, which in the eyes in a lot of theists, is a get-out-of-jail-free card.
No, it’s not true, see my other comment to the same post you replied to. Atheist can be antagonistic at times for sure, but with a good reason. We don’t want religious people dead just because some atheist rule says so.
Bullshit.
Show me the atheist that murdered religious people because of atheism. Show me the atheist that committed countless crimes because of atheism.
Show me the atheist that hates other religions to the point where they will harass funerals because the dead one was religious.
It doesn’t happen. You know what does happen though?