Fervent atheists: which theists do you find the least annoying?

Question

Christians, muslims, JWs, pagans, jewish...? Or maybe some life-philosophy followers like buddhist etc?

Matt D: pagans are theists, they are just not monotheists. Both polytheists and monotheists are theists.
As for buddhists, do you see there an "or"? Which means the second part of my question (about life philosophies) is not included in the first part.

Answer 1

Well do Buddhists and Taoists really count as they're not theists? I really like those two in general. Though buddhists can be cruel... they look at a deformed child and aren't nice to him/her because they assume he was born like that for being bad in a past life.

Are Wiccans theists? They seem usually rather nice. They, and pagans, are familiar with persecution from christianity, so we tend to have common ground on that.

Personally, and perhaps strangely, my favorite theists so far are mormons. Many of my friends are mormon and they are all overly nice and tolerant people who don't try to push their beliefs on me.

Answer 2

Definetly Buddhists.

Answer 3

I find a lot of catholics are cool and jewish, too. Of course a lot of my jewish friends arent really theists. Buddhists, even though technically not theists, are great.

Answer 4

The extreme fundamentalists oddly enough. Their lunacy provides a point for attacking the whole religious structure. In fact you could almost count them as allies because they attack their fellow believers far more than they attack atheists.

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Chick tracts likely turn far more people away from becoming believers than they attract, but the religious middle ground is what enables such fringe elements to exist. Everything the Luatic fringe does to damage the mainliner faith is of advantage to atheists. Ultimately the fringe harms themselves by hurting the main religions that they dangle from. After the main fabric is destroyed the fringes will be easy to clean up.

Answer 5

A few category mistakes.

Pagans arent theist, they are polytheist. Buddhists arent theists either, they follow eastern philosophy which rejects virtually all notions of a personal God.

Answer 6

Buddhists and anyone else who's learned that existential mellow.

Jews, Quakers, Methodists, and anyone else who tries to include logic in their faith.

Anyone who can maintain respect for their fellow men regardless of creed.

Really, the only people I find annoying are the Christians stuck on hell, and the lovebuttergooey ones who say all ideas are equally valid, regardless of how stupid they are.

Answer 7

Agnostics are the best! They don't know what to believe so they aren't going to bug you about believing in something they don't know anything about. The answer above is also correct. The religious are like bugs in the windshield. Everywhere you go they are in your face. We need some kind of wiper to swat those religious flies away.

Answer 8

Buddhists, Hindus, Quakers, some liberal Christians. From a historian's standpoint, I find most pagans annoying as hell, and from a medical standpoint, I find JWs silly and anyone who practices ritual circumcision awful.

Answer 9

I am more than happy to talk to anybody who will discuss an issue calmly and rationally. I have had some very good discussions on religion, it's origins and place in the world with people of many different religions.

Answer 10

None. Though I do find some individual theists can be fine if they realize that they shouldn't be trying to make other people believe.