It's time for Atheists to come out of the closet. There are realistically about 30 million of us in the US - that's more than there are Jews in the world - and yet Atheists remain more timid than any other minority. Why is it that Atheists are the only US minority NOT represented in Congress, when we are demonstrably the most intelligent, most well-educated, and highest-earning?
"New Atheism" asserts that not only is religion wrong, it's evil. It corrodes the mind and prevents progress, both culturally and scientifically. All the violent conflicts in the world today are between zealots insisting their god is better than anyone else's god. That includes our War on Terror, which essentially pits our crazed religious fundamentalist president against equally insane Muslim fanatics.
I believe it is time to get off the fence. We're right, they're wrong, and their silly superstitions are holding back the entire human race. So how come we're the ones afraid to make any noise?
2006-12-07 15:44:59 · 18 answers · asked by abram.kelly 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I was raised Unitarian, which means I've had religious tolerance instilled from birth. And I'm saying, I've had it with being tolerant. I'm not going to stand there and say that It's OK for you to think some guy walks on water, or people talk to supernatural forces who grant their wishes. It's NOT okay, it's insane! I'm not going to burn you at the stake or anything, but you've obviously lost touch with reality, and I'm not going to pretend otherwise for the sake of political correctness.
2006-12-07 16:22:13 · update #1
I'm so out of the closet I'm not even sure I'm in my house anymore.
I started a skeptic/atheist club at a large southern university. However, I can't legally run for a political office in this state because I AM an atheist - not that I really wanted to anyway, but knowing I can't kinda makes me want to try it.
I'm making noise - probably not enough though.
2006-12-07 15:52:30 · answer #1 · answered by eri 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I've been an agnostic all of my adult life, and the recent publicity "new atheism" has been getting disturbs me. The message I'm getting from it seems to be, "Religion must be abolished altogether." This seems frightfully similar to the mentality of religious fundamentalists. "There is no way but our way." How can atheists complain about being an oppressed minority one moment, and then claim that others must fall in line with their way of thinking the next? This is exactly the same kind of hypocrisy and intolerance that religious people are guilty of.
I dread the rise of "fundamentalist atheism." That is the point at which atheism itself becomes the very thing it proposes to be against.
Edit: "Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster." --Friedrich Nietzsche
2006-12-07 16:09:06 · answer #2 · answered by RabidBunyip 4 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Sorry I gave up on Christianity and all religion at age 30, I'm 50 now, so I guess that cherry has been busted.
2016-05-23 05:35:19 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm there with ya!
Wow, according to David T, the botanic society I'm in is also a religion.
The attitude we dislike so much is that religious people believe without evidence and act in very negative ways from that belief.
2006-12-07 15:49:32 · answer #4 · answered by skeptic 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Too wise to bother with the fray. There are meaningful ways to have a positive impact on the world, and they usually don't include zealotry or "noise."
2006-12-07 15:48:30 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
There are Atheists in congress. Where did you get that from! And there are less than 30 million, it's more like 15 millon. Agnostics and "decline to state" don't count!
There are more Muslims then you! Live with it!
2006-12-07 15:51:02 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
I agree with pro life. The whole "We're right, they're wrong" is how religions are destroying the world, and yet that's exactly what you just said. What about religions that just mind their own business, like most pagans?
2006-12-07 15:50:06 · answer #7 · answered by Gothic Shadow 3 · 3⤊ 1⤋
Sounds like a group sharing similar beliefs=religion
"I believe it is time to get off the fence. We're right, they're wrong"
Isnt that the attitude about Christians you dislike so much??
David
2006-12-07 15:49:09 · answer #8 · answered by ? 4 · 4⤊ 3⤋
Hey, evil is a religious concept, and an unproved by science thing. I respect atheists, but you have lost that respect.
2006-12-07 15:53:22 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
I'm all for that. we don't cram our beliefs down there throat, why does my money have to say in god we trust, why when I entered in to the military did I have to swear in under god. I want the right not to have god crammed down my throat.
2006-12-07 15:54:09 · answer #10 · answered by BK 1 · 1⤊ 1⤋