If evangelical christians can go around preaching against atheism, why can't atheists preach against religion?

Question

Am i the only one that thinks this a double standard??

Christians are free to go around, in malls, streets, and other populated public places to preach their religion in other peoples' faces about how they will not be saved if they don't accept jesus.

However, if an atheists holds up banners saying that christianity will lead you to eternal doom, etc etc.. they will most likely be banned from the area for "verbal attacks"

How is this fair?

To Kaye:

what banners could we display? how about banners that say, JESUS IS FAKE, BI-BULL, RELIGION=INTOLERANCE. that is what we have to say.

Answer 1

It's because there's a Christian majority and an atheist minority. If Christians preach, you have just a few angry atheists calling them. If an atheist says what he or she believes, they'll probably get a bunch of angry Christians pounding on their doors and maybe a few threatening e-mails.

Answer 2

Atheism seems to be broken into a number of camps, chiefly, those that simply do not want to deal with religion and those that actively speak against religion.

For the most part it seems majority of atheists are happy as long as theists are quiet as well. There are those who disagree, such as Richard Dawkins -- sometimes referred to as Darwin's Rottweiler (after Huxley's title of Darwin's Bulldog).

As to the prayer and separation of church and state:
A "wall of separation" as Jefferson termed it does not mean remove God from society as a whole. Theists are protected under something called the first amendment. Separation of Church and State simply aims to remove God as a basis for legal action, as it is not compulsive to a free judiciary, and it aims to keep government from infringing on ANY religion; the first amendment also has something known as the establishment clause (congress shall make no law respecting the establishment of a religion). Theists are still allowed to pray in school so long as it does not harm other students, and it is own NON-CLASSTIME. Theists are not allowed to use MY time as their personal prayer time throughout the school, as supported by the landmark 1962 case, Engel v Vitale.

Answer 3

My Church is not real big on the in your face stuff. But if one IS an atheist, what would you say? Banners claiming "I don't believe"? If you don't believe, what have you to say?

EDIT By making banners saying Jesus, or Religion you're encouraging the cause. If you don't believe, why would you care? This is America (which I'm assuming you're in) you have lost no rights. What can you not do? What have you lost? Why does the message of others bother you so? If you don't believe, why do care so much?

Answer 4

Because its illogical to say that christianity will lead to doom, since atheists don't believe they have any soul to doom in the first place. How do you preach a non-belief?

Thank you for proving that atheists are most certainly not the highly intelligent beings which they constantly insist that they are.

Answer 5

Because what the Christians are saying about Jesus is True. Those people aren't "vebally attacking," they're trying to help the atheist to not look like an ignorant fool in public. The atheist should thank them.

Answer 6

What evidence to you've that Atheists carry forth adversarial to Christians? you won't be able to generalize. Athiests opt for to believe that existence purely is, i have not in any respect undesirable mouthed someone who believed otherwise, neither do you may want to. human beings are the in straight forward words ones that would want to "positioned the international to top". no longer any opt for team, yet human beings as an total inspite of what they believe in.

Answer 7

I do not see any double standard, then again I have been on this forum for awhile and have seen lots of mudslinging in both directions. Since you speak like an american of freedoms, I would say you should know that you have just as much right to voice your opinion as they do.

Answer 8

Do you live in a cave and never go out? Even here, every belief is spoken of, defended, presented. Look at abortion demonstrators....often it is religious majority on the con, and non-theistic on the pro, side of the lines.

Christianity is the most pounded and criticized ideology, behind Muslims and Islam, out there..

Answer 9

I think most of us Atheists don't even wanna preach, we simply don't wanna be confronted with religion in public life. Specially in politics.

Could it be that Atheist don't preach so much, because we at least truly understand what 'turning the other cheek' means?

Answer 10

You said it man. Did you see that episode of Jackass where one of those clowns dressed up as the devil and started preaching Satanism? Some Christian hick punched him in the face. So if you do it, go armed or wear your scuba gear.