I mean, atheists are the innocents here, right? It is religious fanatics who are out killing.
How can we stop them?
2006-10-23 20:04:13 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Wrong, Atheists are not innocent.
How can the Christan's stop the Atheists that are
guilty?
See a little problem in your insightful logic?
2006-10-23 20:15:29 · answer #1 · answered by Red 5 · 1⤊ 2⤋
I'm not afraid of the islamists at all, since I live in a largely christian country. I'm not overly concerned about the christians either: in the unlikely situation that they'll start actively persecuting nonbelievers, they're bound to go after muslims before they go after atheists. That'll give me ample warning to skedaddle.
If I were living in a largely islamic country, then I'd worry a lot more about the islamists, and not so much about the christians. Unless I were living in one of the nations occupied or threatened by the United States, of course.
How do we stop the fanatics? Preaching the virtues of tolerance is a good way to start.
2006-10-23 20:14:26 · answer #2 · answered by Bramblyspam 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
When's the last time you heard about a Baptist blowing up a Methodist? Or a Lutheran riding into a Catholic bookstore and shooting everyone there?
How about any reports of professing Christians strapping on dynamite and taking on last subway ride.
Please don't lump Christians and Muslims into the same group. That's just silly, argumentative ignorance.
Further, Atheists are only innocent in their own eyes - not God's. But that really doesn't matter to you, does it?
2006-10-23 20:33:58 · answer #3 · answered by azar_and_bath 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't plan on having kids.
I think the religious will eventually be embarrassed into hiding their religion if not letting it go altogether. Really, whats the difference between being a christian and having an imaginary friend?
Kids raised by intelligent, responsible atheists aren't very likely to adopt christianity or islam, it's all going to look pretty silly. Nor are they going to go to war for someone who answers to an imaginary friend. If they reinstate the draft, no one's going to want an admitted atheist any more than they'd want a conscientious objector.
As far as terror attacks or burning people as heretics, the odds of that happening to someone I know are 500,000 to 1. I'm not worried.
2006-10-23 20:12:01 · answer #4 · answered by Roadpizza 4 · 3⤊ 0⤋
It is clear that education is not nearly enough. Try ridicule. It worked on the KKK.
Things are looking up though. Richard Dawkins and Sam Harris' books are high on the charts in sales. It really could all change for the better in the matter of a generation. The kids of today seem to be recognizing what is at the root of almost all the world's problems...religion.
2006-10-23 20:12:37 · answer #5 · answered by AiW 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
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2016-11-25 01:41:37 · answer #6 · answered by criselda 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I wouldn't say that we are the "victims" if we were to see ourselves as the enlightened ones in this equation. We know that most of the religious fanaticism arises from a lack of education. We also know that people who have higher levels of education (regardless of them having faith or not) are less prominent to take their ideological believes to the extremes of fanaticism. To say that we, atheists, are the victims is rather hypocrite. If anything, we know the solution but decide to stand back and decide to not tend the problem by helping to educate the masses. Our countries education system has failed and we have done little to tend it. We are not the innocents in this equation. We are, but part of the problem.
2006-10-23 20:14:16 · answer #7 · answered by Delusional- Ignore me 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It is innocent PEOPLE who are being killed! Never mind their religion. I'm really tired of this division, as though killing a religious person were more justifiable, because after all they have taken sides in the war. And mind you, I AM an unbeliever, but I don't like this kind of divisions.
2006-10-23 20:14:33 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
I'm far more concerned with the conservative christian right preaching hatred for whole groups of Americans blaming them like the Nazis blamed the Jews for everything that goes wrong in this country. Some of these so called men of god, are calling for the extermination of the whole LGBT community.
Tammi Dee
2006-10-23 20:09:54 · answer #9 · answered by tammidee10 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I see Islam as posing a direct violent threat. I see conservative Christianity as posing a more insidious but equally dangerous threat by seeking to get its claws into political institutions in the US.
2006-10-23 20:15:39 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
you are so right, it has been the custom of Christians and Muslims to burn/stone the unfaithful whenever they were in the mood.
we can weaken the fanatics by organizing (a worldwide organization of the non believers) and teaching the children of those religious people the errors of their parents.
2006-10-23 20:18:43 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋