i can't stand people making fun of religion

Religious tolerance towards Islam in the west, why is this? Gotta keep those Oil countries happy!!

So ok then religious beliefs must be respected a lot of you are saying, does that mean pedophiles beliefs should also be respected? or rapists? just say they don't rape but they love the idea of rape and being a pedo do they deserve respect? (DON'T BE CLOSE-MINDED!)

Because some of the stuff in the Koran is just as sick, don't see why we should respect disrespectful beliefs....

 

I'll admit, attacks from both sides of the fence can be pretty annoying. Voltaire had an interesting bit to say about religion in his book, The Philosopher's Dictionary (under the heading "Atheism"):

I actually haven't finished the whole book yet; I'm up to the C's. You can get it free over at the guttenberg project though

 

I am not overly enamored with any person who feels that they need to convince me that their faith is the only answer.

Do they have the right to their beliefs, without doubt.

I also have the right to respectfully disregard their views as not something that I follow.

I do not make fun of other peoples faith and while I may not believe what they do, I do not go out of my way to make an issue of it either.

Tends to work out well.

 

I can't stand people shoving their religion down my throat, and no, I can't say I know very many Christian people who aren't apt to shove it down my throat. I don't have any issue with the sweet old customers who invite me to their church, I think that it's really thoughtful of them to want to "make sure my soul is saved," but I've been handed some really HORRIBLE pamphlets from other church members and I find that offensive as all hell. A comic book that tells children that their family and friends are all doomed to hell? Yeah, that's really loving and peaceful. I'd like to say I have no issue with organized religion, but it's not true. I will live alongside religious people peacefully, I can even be friends with them, but I will be damned if someone tells me that I'm going to go to hell for being the person that I am and feeling the way that I do. I do not agree with organized religion, but I'm not going to try to shove my beliefs on someone. I expect others to keep the same respect towards me. Witnessing isn't necessary, we all know who Jesus is!

 

i recently got over a bump in the road, i was never a religious person before but this time it helped me thru that bump in the road like nothing has before. and it's something that makes me feel at peace. i don't go to a church, but i read from the bible and it's just something that makes me get this peaceful feeling. it's a hell of a lot better then some other things some people get addicted to

 

well then don't respect it

 

Religions like Buddhism?? Since when have Buddhists had a God?!!

 

buddha called himself a teacher not a god haha

 

jesus never said he was G-d either..

 

I'm here to save you all

 

Someone trying to convert everyone and judging people for not believing, is close minded. But an athiest who refues to even give it a chance and says religions are bs, is close minded too. They're both extremes. Athiests don't know anymore then anyone else how we got here or where we go after we die.

 

It seems almost as if you're generalizing that most atheists haven't considered theism as a possibility..

 

i'm sorry to say i used to be that sort of atheist who did this to people, i'm glad i changed though

 

I love these threads, so much ground covered!

A few short years ago I thought I was a hipster with the shades of anti-religion on, and very quick to agree that the science being conducted today was absolutely honest. I was wrong and know now that at least large portions of the soothing, and often flattering rhetoric that is being pushed urgently is actually not completely reveled to us on the premise of integrity or in support of furthering pure understanding. These 'serious' seekers of truth, in the name of the one almighty science, mostly work for rather large indoctrinated institutions that in someway, some shape flow up the ladder to some agenda, flavor of the day.

Why is it somehow very important today for the mass to acknowledge the authoritarian backed religion of science? Namely global warming, or now as it's called, climate change (name changed according to the science of public relations) or the complete shut out of the possibility of a creator ?I'm not a fan of religion science either.

I'm open to anything, but choose my sources of influence very carefully.

 

I wouldn't disagree.

However being an atheist raised up in a very strictly conservative christian environment, there is a very large amount of mocking, fights, and discussion whenever it was revealed I wasn't Christian.

In a primarily Christian country most people don't get that except by a few anonymous dicks. When you're a non believer growing up in a conservative Christian environment it's a daily struggle as a kid.

It makes some people bitter and grow up to be those bitter dicks who mock others religions...

It all turns into a whose ego is bigger contest pretty quickly.

 

In other words, some times the minority feels the need to be vocal to stick up for themselves...

 

Don't worry, they are judging you on the inside even if they don't say it. And most of them do believe they are better than you. :devil:

 

Its your life, use your mind power as u wish! only you can make yourself truly happy. And in some cases ppl rely on "god" figures, like Hope, faith and what not. I believe in no god, just my higher self! my happiness means the most to me, and i accomplish that every day! i like when ppl try to "convert" me or talk about it... they end up not ever talking to me again! just ask once maybe i can get them to change there way of thinking! i just want every one to be as happy as me!

 

Personally i think the beauty of life is the mystery surrounding it, religion comes along and tries to take this mystery away with fairy tales!

 

Yep, they both work two ways. Being Christian and refusing to accept anything else, and being an atheist who not even consider the possibility of something higher.

Really, you'll always be considered to be 'close minded' unless you actively look into every possible faith and then decide on your path.