Please stop assuming that all atheists are bad people just because we don't have faith. Please stop spreading the lie that Hitler and Stalin were atheists (you can't be an atheist if you think you're god). Can we agree that it is not cool to stereotype people, no matter what? We all agree that stealing, murder and rape are bad things, the rest is just details, right? I think it would bring a lot of peace to these boards if atheists and believers stopped making assumtions about each other.
2007-04-29 22:23:16 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Any mature individual knows how to even agree to disagree
and still be civil with each other!
2007-04-29 22:32:02 · answer #1 · answered by Teri 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You are being just as judgemental as the people who judge you for being athiest, if that's really what you are. The difference is that your directing your judgements on ideas and ideals, by saying that stealing, murder and rape are bad.
Is peace what you really want? it's not what I want. I choose to grow as a person, and the only way to do that is to remember who I am. With the existence of things like stealing, murder and rape in my contextual field, I am able to observe that which I choose not to be, thereby helping me to see my other options of what I do choose for myself. The way I express myself is unique and individual, and I prefer to be something other than the norm, however in the absence of the norm I could not experience being unique. The same concept applies to the so called sins.
As for faith, which is synonymous with hope, all humans on the planet have faith, whether they like it or not. You can, however, convince yourself you do not have faith, and experience having no faith. You can continue holding this experience as long as you wish, and end it whenever you choose.
Stereotyping is not bad either. It has its place and can be correctly used for good. When a person who actually is the norm is assumed by someone else to be the norm, the person assuming is accurately stereotyping that person. The biggest challenges in history have not been when people have made mistakes and realised they were incorrect. The biggest challenges have been when someone was certain they were correct on an issue that just wasn't true. This is the reason that stereotyping and assumptions are trecherous ground, where risk of being incorrect is much higher. As such, stereotyping can be useful and beneficial in some cases, but should be considered a last resort. It is risky, not bad.
Everything else that society has agreed to be unlawful, immoral, unethical, sinful or bad can be thought of in a different way, just as I have shown stereotyping can be reconsidered. Nothing is intrinsically bad, lest thinking make it so.
Finally, consider this:
Stealing, murder and rape are committed by offenders trying to get the attention of people vainly attempting to ask for help. If a person steals money, they are using their actions to announce they have a drug addiction, or they are poverty stricken, or some other motivation that would lead them to commit crimes. There is nothing bad about being desparate, so desparate a person is willing to kill another person to save themself, or feed their perceived need. Perhaps you could consider that the next time you are assaulted, and ask the offender what it is they really want, that they think they have to hurt you to heal it. ALL ATTACK IS A CALL FOR HELP!!!!!
2007-04-30 06:07:11 · answer #2 · answered by Bawn Nyntyn Aytetu 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I am going to disagree with you. You might not have faith is my God, but you do have faith. You have faith that you are right about all this God stuff, right?
I agree with the rest of what you said, no Hitler calling. No Hillary calling either okay?
2007-04-30 05:28:26 · answer #3 · answered by Christian Sinner 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's a constant source of frustration that so many don't see the commonsense in what you're saying.
At the end of the day, that's what morality is, plain, simple, commonsense.
2007-04-30 05:33:32 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I agree that those things are bad; that's why i cant agree with the believers, all their leaders do those things and they still support them. Why?
Stealing; Bush/churches/Tvangelical Ministers
Rape...phhh please!
Murder? well How about Iraq, the crusades................................
Please.
May peace knowledge and hope go to them all.
2007-04-30 05:28:32 · answer #5 · answered by 123 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Well two can play at that game you give us Stalin and Hitler well I give you pure condensed evil, the biggest waste of sperm ever, yes im going to say it, GEORGE BUSH IS A CHRISTIAN!!!!!!!!!!
2007-04-30 05:30:05 · answer #6 · answered by kevin l 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Agree. Just don't tell me what I have to believe or that I'm dumb to believe something. That's my choice.
2007-04-30 05:28:39 · answer #7 · answered by JessicaRabbit 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I agree but not all of us agree.
2007-04-30 05:26:37 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
there is a GOD there. it's in everyone. but not for us to judge indeed. but then again, have you tried judging yourself first?
2007-04-30 05:27:03 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 3⤋
It would.
2007-04-30 05:29:58 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋