Stella_Omega
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Both want to oppress? Bullshit.Therein lies the rub. In my eyes, there is no difference between the aggressive, combative, in-your-face atheist (and I used to be one) and the aggressive in-your-face proselytizing christian/other person. There's no difference in net effect, just direction. It's like the communist and the fascist. One may be leftist and the other rightist, but both want to oppress.
Christian Proselytizers want to force you to belive in god. they threaten you with hell. And they coerce money for the masses, and use that to lobby for laws that would force their religious dogma on the schools, people's marriages, they want their religous definitions of "sin" to be the standard for legal definitions of wrongdoing.
Atheist "oppression" tries to force these people to keep their religion to themselves.
What the actual fuck.
yeah, it's self defence. I've been invited to Bible study classes in the past, on account of how the leader thought that an atheist viewpoint would be useful-- which it was not, it horrified the rest of the group and one mom wouldn't let me touch her kid afterwardsHomburg said:And to add an interesting piece of info to this portion of the discussion, there was a study that showed that christians in America were outperformed on religious knowledge by atheists. Fun fact, eh? Atheists know more about religion than christians, heh.
That was in a suburb of Philadelphia, for 'heartland' reference. I found myself there as a result of a moms-and-kids play group, and the reason I was in that group with my kids was because someone who knew I was na atheist thought that it would be a decent fit for me-- there were more religions represented in it, it wasn't solely SDA or something.
And that was true-- there was a Catholic woman (who had gotten pregnant during a drunken bar crawl and hated the baby daddy), Methodists, all kinds of sects even a jewish Christian couple.
All of them, though, had one thing in common-- they all began from the premise that Gods exist. We just avoided talking about religion. They sure talked about church a lot!
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