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Quote by: HelioPrime  It happens all the time.
The simple fact people place belief in something not testable by science is somehow threatening because many of your comrades (not specifically you) will use extreme example to show when faith attempts to take the place of sound science.
Those extreme examples are then universally applied by atheists as to why in your view it is follow to hold beliefs. |
Responding to something does not indicate that an atheist feels threatened by the topic at hand.
In a debate forum, you are going to get opposing responses simply because a thread is there. It doesn't matter what you are talking about. You could say "I like cheese" and you would have a slew of posts convincing you why are are wrong.
In a non-argumentative setting, you could state something like "things happen for a reason" when you find a $10 bill in the street and I am standing nearby. Regardless of whether I knew you or not, I would not make any comment about your statement. You can believe whatever you want in that non-argumentative setting and not be challenged on it. On the same note, if you had said "black people are stupid," I wouldn't challenge you either.
The only time I respond is in a debate forum setting or when one of your "beliefs" threatens something in my physical world. If your belief that evolution is an attack on creationism causes local school curriculum to change then I consider that open season to take your belief position down and make you look as unintelligent and hypocritical as possible in the process so as to make it more difficult for your position to have real world effects in the future.