Which would atheists rather hear, Christian Church bells or Muslim prayers on a loud speaker 5 times a day?

Question

So some atheists are against Church bells?
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Answer 1

Perhaps you ought to remind them of what time the first of these Muslim prayers comes across the loudspeaker -- PRE-DAWN!!!
http://islam.about.com/cs/prayer/a/prayer_times.htm

Answer 2

a captious question this is. What you are trying to say if I understood correctly is that Christianity is better than the Muslims, therefore an atheist would surely choose a Christian over a Muslim any day. WRONG!!!! Very faulty logic. If like if I went to comalint about the noise and the person in charged responds, "well, would you rather I did the muslim prayer 5 times a day?" No, I rather you stopped all together like a civilized person would. By that same logic might as well well, play a loud base in front of any church on sunday mass. Very disrispecfull. When the priest or pastor comes out to complaint I will tell them "well, would you rather I played heavy metal out loud". Not exactly the answer a person would expect. That is to say, not a civilize solution.

Answer 3

I think an Atheist would not have preference in the understanding that sound is sound and not relevant to any cultural belief.

If there were no Christians, the sound of a bell would still omit sound waves.

If there were no Muslims, the sound of about 5 middle aged men signing out of sync at the same time at 5:00 a.m. would still in fact omit waves.

There is no difference between an Atheist, Christian or Muslim accept for the fact that an Atheist has a greater ability and awareness to live life in the here and now.

If you go back and read the Bible and Koran, that is the greater message that so many followers have either ignored or didn't understand.

Is the sound of this resonating?

Answer 4

I rather turn up my "Between the Buried and Me" and not hear anything else. Muslims praying wouldn't bother me much. For I cannot understand Muslim languages.
Everybody knows the reasons of church bells, and their only on Wednesday's and Sundays, much fewer than Muslim's praying 5 times a day.
Over all, as an Atheist, I would choose the Muslims praying. Because I couldn't understand it and wouldn't hear it over my music to begin with. Church bells are just annoying.

Answer 5

I am not an atheist but I can tell you I would rather hear the church bells. At least then I would know what time it was.

Hugs

Answer 6

Ooooh! That's a MEAN question! At this point in our sad human history, I'd have to go with the CC bells. But I'd much rather neither! Or perhaps a wolf call for those of us atheists who attend The Only True Church of Darwinian Evolution!

Answer 7

I'm a Christian and I would much rather hear church bells.

Answer 8

Music is always more soothing than a voice speaking.

I'd opt for music.

But if the choice was muslim bells or christian prayers, I'd still pick music

Answer 9

Not every choice in life is black and white. I'd like to live in a place where all religions are welcomed. And not in the fake way where we say all are welcomed, and we pretend to love our neighbors.. and then proceed to ask painfully ignorant questions like the one at the top of this page.

Reminds me of the Communist threat during the Cold War, and references to an atheistic USSR and why shouldn't all us heathen pinko commies move there... I think perhaps you could be a bit more original, don't you? :)

Answer 10

A better question would be a prayer to the end of the wars in Iraq, Danfur, and Afghanistan.