Um most people on this planet follow one religion or another. Atheism is basically fringe in the grand scheme of things planet wide.Actually the main reason atheism isn't fun is thanks to religious people not leaving well enough alone.
Um most people on this planet follow one religion or another. Atheism is basically fringe in the grand scheme of things planet wide.Actually the main reason atheism isn't fun is thanks to religious people not leaving well enough alone.
No I am just stating the obvious.So you support tyranny of the majority then?
Don't put words in my mouth. I said I was just stating the obvious. Your group is a small group on a planet that does not share that view. It is what it is.With that statement in response to mine, it looks like you support tyranny of the majority.
Dude the world is what is. Life is not fair to anyone. People have to live with the hand they are dealt. That applies to everyone.The obvious that atheists are a minority, therefore it's okay to make their lives hell?
True, but reality often fails to live up to the ideal; oftentimes, you just have to learn to live with things as they are, rather than how they ought to be. Atheists do tend to get the short end of the stick from religious types (same goes for Agnostics like myself), but that's just par for the course in how we humans deal with outgroups.That isn't what this Republic stands for, though. I thought that was part of the point of this board even existing.
Oh yes them.................. I really really don't like Vegans. They can't shut up about the fact they are a Vegan and must remind you every damn hour sometimes less. They think if you eat some Fried Chicken you are a murderer. And they keep praddling on about Veganism even when you have said you are not interested. I love eating meat please go away. I once threatened to eat one of them if they didn't leave me alone. I can be scary when I want to.The main problem with atheism is that all too many atheists are taking it like a religion, agressivly proselytising to heathens and acting holiher than thou. That's why I don't want to have anything to do with any atheist organisation. I respect the religious feelings of other people as long as they respect the lack of mine. When they don't, I'm an asshole. Especially to vegans.
Oh yes them.................. I really really don't like Vegans. They can't shut up about the fact they are a Vegan and must remind you every damn hour sometimes less. They think if you eat some Fried Chicken you are a murderer. And they keep praddling on about Veganism even when you have said you are not interested. I love eating meat please go away. I once threatened to eat one of them if they didn't leave me alone. I can be scary when I want to.
Your "truth" is nothing more than slanderous propaganda. If all you can do is repeat it mindlessly, then I hate to break it to you, but you're just the right wing version of an NPC.
It's pretty simple actually - it's based mainly in the golden rule. This is also why libertarianism has such a draw to atheists, too, because it's essentially based on the same principles. Meanwhile, plenty of atrocities have been committed by people belonging to your "moral" religion. For example, the institution of slavery in the American south, which was justified by its proponents by passages in the Bible which pertain to slavery. And again, I'd invite everyone to look up the Sand Creek massacre and the atrocities committed there, and keep in mind that it was led by a preacher.
No, we have man's law that we can show people have violated, it's not just our personal take on the matter,
And you see that as a bad thing? Personally I should think you'd be glad that we clearly aren't the amoral monsters you claimed us to be.
I think we can all come together on our hatred of vegans.
...I feel the need to point out that Christianity itself inherits much of it's moral framework. As does Judaism and Buddhism and Hinduism and on and on and on and on and on.
It takes a long ass time to develop a coherent moral framework. Atheism hasn't been around all that long to actually figure out how morals work without the baseline assumption of "There's Gods and Souls and shit". But then, it took thousands of years for Christianity to happen to.
Which is an easy assumption to make, for anyone who isn't burdened by the prejudices inherent in being a Jew or a Christian. I mean look at the Golden Rule for example; the Jewish “That which is hateful to you, do not do to your neighbor: that is the whole of the Torah, while the rest is commentary thereon; go and learn it.” and the Christian "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.", are both basically plagiarisms of the ancient Mesopotamian "Son, that which seems evil to thee, do not to thy companion."That's an interesting claim. It seems to be operating on the assumption that Judaism and Christianity are not actually the result of direct divine revelation.