Atheists and agnostics are blind to God and should be pitied as handicapped and not reviled and hated?

Answer 1

Handicapped people get to do whatever they want and girls feel sorry for them and feel obligated to talk to them. I'd also get to have a handicapped parking place! I think I'd like to be considered handicapped. I vote yes!

Answer 2

Well, now...I'm a Christian woman, but calling someone who doesn't (yet) know God handicapped, and saying they are to be pitied...that sounds pretty much like "reviling" to me.

Let's be doers of the word, shall we?

Answer 3

I think it's stupid to just hate someone just because of a difference like belief in something you can't prove anyway. And whoever told you that, has been living with their head up their a.ss for a long time. handicapped?

Answer 4

Atheists identified as America’s most distrusted minority, according to new U of M study
What: U of M study reveals America’s distrust of atheism
Who: Penny Edgell, associate professor of sociology
Contact: Nina Shepherd, sociology media relations, [phone]
Mark Cassutt University News Service, [phone]

MINNEAPOLIS / ST. PAUL (3/28/2006) -- American’s increasing acceptance of religious diversity doesn’t extend to those who don’t believe in a god, according to a national survey by researchers in the University of Minnesota’s department of sociology.

From a telephone sampling of more than 2,000 households, university researchers found that Americans rate atheists below Muslims, recent immigrants, gays and lesbians and other minority groups in “sharing their vision of American society.” Atheists are also the minority group most Americans are least willing to allow their children to marry.

Even though atheists are few in number, not formally organized and relatively hard to publicly identify, they are seen as a threat to the American way of life by a large portion of the American public. “Atheists, who account for about 3 percent of the U.S. population, offer a glaring exception to the rule of increasing social tolerance over the last 30 years,” says Penny Edgell, associate sociology professor and the study’s lead researcher.

Edgell also argues that today’s atheists play the role that Catholics, Jews and communists have played in the past—they offer a symbolic moral boundary to membership in American society. “It seems most Americans believe that diversity is fine, as long as every one shares a common ‘core’ of values that make them trustworthy—and in America, that ‘core’ has historically been religious,” says Edgell. Many of the study’s respondents associated atheism with an array of moral indiscretions ranging from criminal behavior to rampant materialism and cultural elitism.

Edgell believes a fear of moral decline and resulting social disorder is behind the findings. “Americans believe they share more than rules and procedures with their fellow citizens—they share an understanding of right and wrong,” she said. “Our findings seem to rest on a view of atheists as self-interested individuals who are not concerned with the common good.”

The researchers also found acceptance or rejection of atheists is related not only to personal religiosity, but also to one’s exposure to diversity, education and political orientation—with more educated, East and West Coast Americans more accepting of atheists than their Midwestern counterparts.

The study is co-authored by assistant professor Joseph Gerteis and associate professor Doug Hartmann. It’s the first in a series of national studies conducted the American Mosaic Project, a three-year project funded by the Minneapolis-based David Edelstein Family Foundation that looks at race, religion and cultural diversity in the contemporary United States

Answer 5

I don't want pity - I want respect for what I believe in.

Answer 6

Did you snip this from one of my answers from yesterday? If not that's one heck of a coincidence!! Wow.

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AjqB0pgshIip330Usl2q.0fsy6IX?qid=20060913113730AAunsUH

Answer 7

They should be applauded for standing up for what they believe without judging or condemning anyone to hell.

Answer 8

I rather enjoy being called a tool of satan. But that's just me.

Answer 9

Cool, do we get the close parking spaces then???

Answer 10

what about the satanist dont leave them out!!!!!