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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?
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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And like everyone else you ignoring the facts.....
Do theists proselytize much on this forum?
Who creates more debate threads, non theists targeting theists, or theists targeting non theists.
The question at hand is why there is debate, and thats because each side refuses to accept specific terms to the debate. It's something both theists and non theists have in common.