Have we become bigoted and unaccepting like followers of other religions? By trying to spread awareness of atheism, have we turned into the very people that we despise?
2007-07-06 16:09:57 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
“He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.”
Frederick Nietzsche
yeah, maybe it's a bit overdramatic.
2007-07-06 16:18:22 · answer #1 · answered by vorenhutz 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I don't think that one bit. I'm not trying to convince people of things they can't see, nor am I trying to tell them how to live. I don't picket their churches, nor do I visit them on a door-to-door basis. I do nothing to try to force churches into teaching evolution. I don't hold Bible burnings, nor do I appeal to government bodies to no longer consider Christians as citizens of the United States. I've done nothing to pass laws forbidding holy water on Sundays. I send no spam emails their way, and I don't care to place pamphlets under their windshield wipers. I don't hang out in laundry mats, hoping for some unsuspecting Jehovah's Witness to pick today to wash their socks.
I display none of the required attitudes when it comes to pushing Atheism as Christianity is pushed by fundies. I pretty much live my life as I see fit, and leave others alone to do the same. At least, until religion is used to back up some bigoted or hateful viewpoint--or otherwise smeared into my face.
2007-07-06 16:25:43 · answer #2 · answered by writersblock73 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Not every Atheist spreads the word of Atheism. I know alot of Atheists on the internet that want nothing to do with telling anyone their beliefs.
2007-07-06 16:13:56 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Not I, I don't think I'll ever be like those people. I've never tried to spread atheism (people are entitled to their beliefs), just educate a few people and at the very least try to get them to be tolerant.
2007-07-06 16:17:07 · answer #4 · answered by Moxie! 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I have nothing to spread, Dr. Lecter. I'm too busy attempting to shovel up and dispose of the mountains of b.s. the believers are spreading. It's a tough job, but someone's got to do it.
2007-07-06 16:32:59 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I don't mind them but I am scared of them. If we don't say something they just keep forcing their ideologies on us. Somewhere we must take a stand for they seem to pervert the very essence of humanity. I think they're slowly going away but I think in their death throes they become more violent.
2007-07-06 16:16:10 · answer #6 · answered by Don W 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Yes! I'm a crazy atheist monk living a life of celibacy!
2007-07-06 16:13:05 · answer #7 · answered by Desiree 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I'm sorry, but religion is a plague on humanity, and the world would be better off without it.
2007-07-06 16:14:00 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋
I really don't care what anyone else does with their own life, as long as they "the believers" don't try to tell me I'm going to hell and all that other non-sense.
2007-07-06 16:17:18 · answer #9 · answered by Leila G 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I don't consider myself an athiest, more of an agnostic. But, I know some self-professed athiests who are down right evangelical.
2007-07-06 16:14:09 · answer #10 · answered by iroteb 5 · 2⤊ 1⤋