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What about Hitler?Saddam?Ahmadi Nejad(New Iranian President)?

2006-08-08 06:16:16 · 8 answers · asked by mortangle2006 2 in Society & Culture Religion & Spirituality

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He's a dirty anti american muslim

That' what some will want to say

but it will probably come out that they love him but hate his sin

Muslims have become the modern day communist.

but everybody really hates atheists

check out this study by the university of minnesota

U of M study finds atheists are least trusted
Non-believers rank at the bottom as Mosaic study gauges how views of diversity are evolving in America.

Pamela Miller, Star Tribune
For one of Minnesota's most prominent atheists, a newly released study that found atheists are the least-trusted group in the United States has created a teachable moment.

"Most people do trust atheists -- they just don't know it," said August Berkshire, the spokesman for Minnesota Atheists. "That trusted family member, friend or neighbor might very well be an atheist."

The 2003 study, spearheaded by Penny Edgell, an associate professor of sociology at the University of Minnesota, found that atheists rank below several other minority groups, including immigrants, gays and lesbians, conservative Christians, Jews and Muslims, as "least likely to share everyday Americans' vision of society," Edgell said. "They're the new outsiders."

The telephone sampling of 2,081 households nationwide also found that atheists are the minority group most Americans least want their children to marry, she said.

"We were pretty surprised by the results," Edgell said. "We thought that in the wake of 9/11, people would target Muslims. Frankly, we expected atheists to be a throwaway group."

She said the study, whose overall goal was to gauge how views of diversity are evolving, shows "Americans are becoming more tolerant of racial and religious diversity, but those who aren't religious fall outside the range of tolerance."

Ninety percent of respondents thought whites and blacks could share their vision of society. About 80 percent said the same of Hispanics, Jews and conservative Christians. More than 70 percent said it of immigrants, and 64 percent said it of Muslims. Atheists had the lowest rating at 54 percent.

Followup interviews in 2004 found that many people "believe atheists have no sense of community and promote cultural elitism and the almighty dollar," Edgell said.

Such perceptions "tell us nothing about atheists themselves," she said. Atheists account for only 3 percent of the population, "so most people don't know any," she said.

Edgell said atheists are scapegoated in ways Catholics, Jews and Communists once were -- they are perceived to be on the other side of what Americans view as a symbolic moral boundary. "They're associated with moral and social disorder," she said.

For Berkshire, the study is a call to action. "More positive, friendly atheists need to be public about their world views -- not in an attempt to convert anybody, but to be a visible part of society," he said. "That would go a long way toward dispelling stereotypes."

He disputed the report's assertion that only 3 percent of Americans are atheists, citing other studies, including one from the City University of New York, that found that 14 percent of Americans identify themselves as "nonreligious."

He emphasized the university study's finding that "the more education people have, the more accepting they were." According to Edgell, people with more education, those with more exposure to diverse populations and those from the East and West coasts expressed the highest regard for atheists.

"When I became an atheist, I decided I wanted to live in a world where people were kind to each other," Berkshire said. "For this to happen, I had to follow my natural inclinations and be a kind person myself and do my part to help make the world a better place."

Atheists, he said, do support the common good, and members of Minnesota Atheists engage in a broad range of educational and cultural activities.

"We support multiculturalism, freedom of belief and nonbelief, and separation of church and state," he said. "These are core American values."

Belief in God, he said, "is no guarantee of good behavior and is too often used to justify bad behavior."

The study was the first in a series of national studies of race, religion and diversity conducted by the American Mosaic Project, funded by the David Edelstein Family Foundation of Minneapolis.

2006-08-08 06:22:15 · answer #1 · answered by downdrain 4 · 1 0

Because Christians make up the rules to suit themselves.

For example, Pat Robertson said that Venezuela's President Chavez should be assassinated. That statement came from a man who calls himself a servant of God, and yet he advocated MURDER when the Bible clearly says, "Thou Shalt NOT Kill".

It's a case of one rule for the rich, and another for anybody else. It is also known as hypocrisy.

In the attached CNN article, notice that Robertson apologized, but only because of media pressure. Before the apology, he denied that he wanted to assassiante Chavez. Then the media got after him, so he finally admitted the truth.

Which means, Pat Robertson commited another sin that is common for a Christian preachers: LYING AND DECEIT.

And they have the nerve to tell the world that we must all believe in them and do what they tell us -- or else we will go to hell.

2006-08-08 13:28:35 · answer #2 · answered by LaRue 4 · 1 0

God said love thine enemies, but not agree with the evil done by them. The Lord himself expressed anger towards people, for instance in the temple when they where selling items, He angered and turned the tables over. It doesn't mean He didn't love them, He was trying to get them to respect the holy house of God. So back to Osama, we must love and pray for him as with the others, but we can be angered and moved by what they have done.
Hopefully this answers your question.

2006-08-08 13:24:04 · answer #3 · answered by Perhaps I love you more 4 · 1 0

Sorry, I don't love my enemies. I could walk up to Bin Laden, put a gun to his head, pull the trigger and feel no remorse or pity.

2006-08-08 13:26:58 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1 0

Because "Christians" are the biggest hypocrites around. If all the bible thumping Christians, ACTED like Christians, this world would be a beautiful place.

2006-08-08 13:21:42 · answer #5 · answered by Nunya 5 · 1 0

bin Laden is not "technically" our enemy since he is a United States CIA opperative.

2006-08-08 13:20:15 · answer #6 · answered by Ann_Tykreist 4 · 1 0

as you know not all ppl are christians.

2006-08-08 13:25:31 · answer #7 · answered by JesusFreak 2 · 1 0

we HATE him for WHAT he does, not as a person

2006-08-08 13:30:57 · answer #8 · answered by start 6-22-06 summer time Mom 6 · 1 0

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