2007-02-21 19:13:56 · 26 answers · asked by orian76 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
because christians are so hateful
2007-02-23 05:47:10 · answer #1 · answered by lepke 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I highly doubt they are considered the most hated group. I've never seen people protesting Atheist meetings or being up in arms because they want to get married or have the basic civil rights that anyone who believes in God happens to have. Sure, they have their fair share of idiots who annoy them or talk smack about them but I wouldn't say there is a specfic group such as the KKK who go out of their way to make sure they're life is a living hell.
I think homosexuals and minorities are the most hated groups. I don't recall Atheists being denied targeted for hate crimes in the 20th or 21st centuries. I'm sure there might've been a few cases but I don't think there have been enough incidents to warrant new laws being passed to protect them or anything. As I said, I'm sure some people might treat them unjustly if they found out they didn't believe in God but, by & large, I don't think they're the most hated.
2007-02-21 19:39:49 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The answer, as I see it, is that many people assume that without the threat of judgment based on an absolute moral standard, a person will act solely in his or her best interests at all times. If this were true, it would be foolhardy to trust an atheist. He would kill, lie, rape, and steal to his own benefit, without remorse, if he thought it extremely unlikely he would be caught.
Others don't outright assume this, but it may run a current in their subconscious thoughts. It's obviously a ludicrous argument -- we have every reason to believe that our morals come from a combination of instinct and upbringing which has been shaped through biological (and to no small degree, cultural) evolution. In direct opposition to the underlying assumptions about atheism's amorality, there are compelling arguments that altruism, as opposed to ruthless selfishness, can and has been a strong selective evolutionary advantage in our past.
2007-02-21 23:50:24 · answer #3 · answered by gremlinn007 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't know that I'd call us the most hated group in America, but I'd deffinately call us a minority. I will never understand how the majority of the people in this world can put all their faith in someone/something that they have never seen or experienced. I don't believe, nor do I disbelieve. I simply say a prayer just in case from time to time; however I would deffinately call myself an atheist because I do not choose to believe in something that I have not seen or experienced for myself. Who knows if God exists, not me...
2007-02-21 19:22:29 · answer #4 · answered by Cynthia 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Depends on who is doing the hating, if it is some fundamentalist nutjob, then I,d say that the athiests are doing something right. It is funny however that the people who hate athiests are the same people who profess to follow a doctrine of love ironic or what?
2007-02-21 20:27:49 · answer #5 · answered by iain d 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
One of the human characteristic is jealousy. Atheists do not have internal conflict and are philosophically more relaxed than the other group.
Since the other group is bigger, they are hated by more people because of the jealousy.
2007-02-21 19:30:26 · answer #6 · answered by Chandru Krish 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
This would be a bit of a generalization; at least on Y/A (where most of the people on R&S are from North America), most of the tolerant people I have encountered are athiests.
Cheers & God bless.
2007-02-21 19:16:57 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
So... a sample of 140 people is supposed to represent how many millions of people?
What a crock!
It's things like this that are why other academics don't take the field of sociology very seriously.
2007-02-21 20:17:19 · answer #8 · answered by Cheshire Cat 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
i thought presidents are the most hated group in America *shrug*
2007-02-21 19:17:48 · answer #9 · answered by farina m 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Atheists, the most hated? I thought white supremacists were.
2007-02-21 19:17:29 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
That is such a political poll question. By whom are they considered most hated? By the literally tens of people at the westboro baptist church?
2007-02-21 19:16:51 · answer #11 · answered by Sara 5 · 3⤊ 0⤋