2007-02-24 02:09:43 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Because you were not a bigot?
Love and blessings Don
2007-02-24 02:13:22 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
There's no reason to care in the least -- if you really have no heart. In fact, causing offense might be the point of making the remarks.
You can be anti-anything you want -- but when you start telling people it's generally to get the reaction.
But since you're asking this question, there's a chance that you really might care what people think.
In that case, you might just have a heart somewhere -- maybe a "little" one. So, to answer your question, you care about saying hurtful things ONLY if you care about other people. That's 'cause hurting others will only make you feel bad in the long run.
Then again, you probably won't care about this answer. That is, if you really have no heart...
2007-02-24 10:23:06 · answer #2 · answered by bearcruiser1 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You have the choice to do or care about whatever you want. That being said, whether you believe in God or not what does it pay or help you out to be hurtful to anyone else. I would say you should treat others as you like to be treated. I mean the reverse of your question is why should 4 350lb huge muscle bound gay men care what you feel like as they beat the ever loving crap out of you because you were callus and hurtful with your remarks?
2007-02-24 10:18:26 · answer #3 · answered by jimstock60 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Why should you be offended by anti-KKK remarks?
"gays" are people who have voiced their determination that they should select their intimate partners based on sexual stereotypes.
Homosexuals may be people who have shrugged off the bigotries of society and choose their intimate relationships based on how they feel with a person regardless of race, sex, religion or culture.
I have nothing against homosexuals or anyone else until they start spouting stereotypes like "Christians are ...." or "Blacks like ...." or "Women can't ......". Sure, we all do it sometimes. We are not perfect. Most of us do not define our lives with stereotypes.
2007-02-24 10:16:34 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Then you will not be offended back when people hurl epithets in your direction. Being an atheist does not excuse you from treating others with decency and respect. If you give none, you will get none
2007-02-24 10:15:25 · answer #5 · answered by Experto Credo 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Your Atheism has nothing to do with pet bigotries. You can insult anyone you want to, of course, but to what purpose?
I'm not always pleasant to everyone... I ignore plenty of people just for their physical appearances, but I try to maintain a posture of kindness most of the time and I generally hide my disapproval pretty well. Political correctness has its place and civil behavior does, too.
Fat people, short people, people of color, white people, tribal people, gay people, old people, young people, etc., are all just people in the end, aren't they?. If you decide not to like them as a group or as individuals for any reason you choose, that's completely up to you and it might be your loss.
Nuff said... Choose your own reasons to care about this stuff but you really ought to care - you're one of us, too, and probably no better or worse than your neighbors.
()()() r u randy? ()()()
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POST SCRIPT: Well said, john_d_ay... I know we don't agree on the question of "God vs no god" but I'm pleased to see that we certainly can agree on this. When it all comes down to the basics of our "do unto others" morally structured American society, religious beliefs are rightly stationed as nothing more than our back seat tag-alongs.
2007-02-24 10:28:40 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because you DO have a heart. Being an Atheist does not mean that you are heartless.
2007-02-24 12:50:34 · answer #7 · answered by jasmin2236 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because your life is not guided by superstition or religious dogma. You understand right and wrong from a sociological perspective, and understand the difference between criticism and hate towards any particular social, ethnic, or religious group.
2007-02-24 10:14:31 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
you pretend you are an atheist to make them seem ''mean'' and ''bad''
get a life! lol,
the most atheists care about other people!
even when they have no expectation of the reward of heaven!
2007-02-24 10:13:51 · answer #9 · answered by kittana! 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
From a fellow atheist Buddhist: Your choice, but it's really bad karma to spew hateful rhetoric and to cause harm and suffering.
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2007-02-24 10:13:28 · answer #10 · answered by vinslave 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yawn......another variation on where do atheists get values.
If you need the sky judge to tell you what's right and wrong....you have issues.
You are also why I'd never seek to weaken Xtianity....you people are seriously weird....and I don't trust you without the sky Judge.
2007-02-24 10:14:22 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋