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Originally posted by ruiner,
Since the sad events of September 11th 2001 everyones priority has been quite rightly on Bin Laden, Saddam and the color coded warning system. But are we so focused on threats from abroad that we are missing a bigger threat from our own soil? I am speaking about a religion* other than Islam - atheism.
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Threat?? How is not believing in a so-called higher power a threat to anyone? Also, simply because there are organized groups of atheists in this country does not in any way constitute a religion. I suppose by your faulty logic, Parents Without Partners would be a religion, or the Kiwanis Club, or the AARP.
Further, most athiests do not belong to any organazition which features atheism as its core. Most atheists have no problemns with religion for others, it just doesn't work for them. Again, what specifically is the "problem"? Are you implying if you force a dose of good ol' religion on us, we will be "cured"?
Finally, atheists must work a little harder to form our own opinions, even though it is a lot easier to be told how to think, what is right and wrong, and how much to pity/disparage those who don't share the same mindset.