Some atheists have contempt for religious types about expressing their religion in public or converting other people...
However there are atheists trying to convert people over to their thoughts and beliefs?
2007-01-08 02:56:55 · 14 answers · asked by Celebrate Life 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Religious people say they think rationally and logically. So do you... I'm just not seeing why there should be a double standard.
2007-01-08 03:05:29 · update #1
Some of what I've seen atheists endorsing may not be what they consider religious but is based in trust or faith. Similar to Religious types.
2007-01-08 03:07:38 · update #2
Most of what you see from atheists is due to anger at mistreatment. Atheists are hated and reviled, have vast amounts of untruths said about them, and are considered the most hated of almost all subgroups. Some Christians have a higher opnion of adulterers, rapists, and murderers, than atheists. All because they hold no belief in a diety.
This abuse takes a toll, so many strike back. It's taunting behavior. If you look, you'll see the same type of taunting behavior by Christians, against others, especially atheists.
The vast amount of atheists don't care what anyone believes, so long as those beliefs are being forced on others, through culture or the legal system.
2007-01-08 03:09:01 · answer #1 · answered by Radagast97 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
SOME people are extremists. Fanatics, regardless of their theology (or lack thereof) are fanatics. But that doesn't mean that there is a double standard or that all atheists are trying to convert people. I don't know about you, but I've never had an atheist telling me I'm going to burn in hell if I don't believe what he/she believes. I've never heard an atheist threaten anybody with anything for not believing the same way... unless you're thinking in terms of radical extremes like when Russia was the Soviet Union and there could be NO religion. But again -- those are the extremes -- they were fanatical.
And by the way -- there is no possible way to think logically and rationally about one's religious beliefs while at the same time having faith. The two are diametrically opposed - faith and logic. Complete opposites.
2007-01-08 11:17:38 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not really, you see atheists are just trying to keep the world sane. You really don't support the propagation of superstitious fiction and mythology, do you? Don't you stand up for the Truth? If someone tells a small child that they had better not make a mistake or the boogie man will come and take them away, wouldn't you stand up and say "There is no boogie man!" "The boogie man is a made-up fiction."
How many so-called gods do you say don't exist? Be honest, unless you say they all exist (in which case you're a raving loon), then you too do as the atheists do when they say which gods don't exist.... you're merely mad because they've included your god as one of the worlds many mythologies.
Grow up.... become an adult.
2007-01-08 11:03:35 · answer #3 · answered by JRSK007 3 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Well, I don't see it as the same thing.
I've never heard of a town putting the "Atheist" symbol in the town square. I've never heard of Atheist evangelists going door-to-door and an atheist has NEVER handed my child a little book after school "Why I Am Not A Christian".
Atheists want no religion endorsed in the public forum. They don't want to replace it with "another religion."
2007-01-08 11:01:21 · answer #4 · answered by Laptop Jesus 4 · 5⤊ 1⤋
It's always a double standard. Whenever one religion (let's say Baptists) try to get people from another religion (let's say Catholics) to convert. They're saying that one religion is right while the other is wrong.
2007-01-08 11:00:33 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I don't particularly care if believers try to make converts. It's only when they try to force their beliefs on others, by passing faith-based laws, that upsets me. I think you'll find that most atheists will agree.
2007-01-08 11:06:18 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
It is hypocritical. A person can not help what they believe, It is just the way they think and feel and it is stupid for anyone to try to change anyone's beliefs. It is good to educate but only those who want to be educated.
2007-01-08 11:07:21 · answer #7 · answered by ♥noey♥ 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes I see it all the time on Y!A
This is not all atheists, just like it's not all christians who preach, but it's annoying when anybody, of any religion preaches.
Let people believe what they want, and if you don't like it that's too bad.
2007-01-08 11:06:36 · answer #8 · answered by Tina 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Those atheists who are trying to convert others are no higher than Christians who do the same.
2007-01-08 10:59:19 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋
Atheists who attempt to woo people from their religions are just as much at fault as believers who attempt to convert me.
They don't represent me. I'm a nonreligion of one.
2007-01-08 10:59:55 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 0⤋