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You really don't get it, Helio. Milton was dead right; atheists have been
INSTITUTIONALLY persecuted by believers throughout history. Even today, top rated, nationally televised ministers have condemned atheists to millions of our fellow Americans as the equivalent of murderers, rapists, child molesters and communists, each of us worthy of suffering intolerable agony for all eternity.
And for what?
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Quote by: Helio Prime Don't take this an insult: But non theists use that stance as "just thinking for yourself" as a way to say their not really debating, they are only promoting a perfectly innocent view. Non theists seem to have a view where if everyone thought for themselves then everyone would be an atheist, so those who still have faith have yet to use any thinking and need to be shown the truth. |
Except atheists - in general - don't proselytize. We aren't out to create a nation of non-believers, we just want people to a) quit comdemning us and b) as Isherwood's cartoon so wonderfully illustrates, quit forcing their antiquated morality down everyone's throats. We're not telling the religious to stop praying, get an abortion or invite gays over for dinner. Just to get over yourselves.
Those atheists that do make a lot of noise I'll venture do so in retaliation to a lifetime of universal condemnation. In other words, they're mad as hell and they're not going to take it any more.
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