Atheists: Do you feel Muslims are more accepting of you than Christians?

Question

Today we see violence similar to the scale of the Christian Crusades that were waged by extremists long before our grandparents were born. However, I see more of a fear by atheists of Christians becoming violent again, like many years past and very little fear of the extremists supporting and doing the killings of today. I can only assume they don't feel they are a target by Muslim extremists but are by Christian extremists.

Answer 1

Depends on which country you are in. In America maybe, because Muslims are a minority too, But in the middle east...I would be dead

Answer 2

Nope, I see religious zealotry as equally dangerous and limiting regardless of which religion.

Muslim radicals are little different from Christian radicals. But let us set aside fanaticism and look at mainstream instead.

The average Christian and Muslim who would never kill to make a point still waste their own lives studying myths that limit our human potential. If we added all of the religious study of all of the people who lived the last two thousands years and converted this study to the study of nature and science, we would have progressed a great deal further in our understanding of the Universe than we have.

The killing of scientists in the past by "holy" people, calling them heretics, and destroying or shunning them has been detrimental to human growth. Religion taught that the Earth was the center of the Universe, everything revolved around it, and that Earth was flat. Even today, many Christians believe that Earth is only a few thousand years old. It took science hundreds of years to convince Christians that the earth was not the center of the Universe, it may take hundreds more to convince them that the Earth is in fact hundreds of millions of years old.

Neither Jesus nor Mohamed set anyone straight about such major issues. Only science over the next 2 millenniums discovered such. Had one of those religious leaders said something as profound for the time as the Earth was spherical and revolved around the sun, they would hold a lot more credibility in today's world.

But, because it was written that these men had special relationships with God, we are supposed to believe it. We are supposed to believe that a person who walked on water and rose from the dead would not set the world straight on the true nature of planet earth. We are supposed to believe that Mohamed, an illiterate man with incoherent thought processes (as evidenced by the Koran) was a prophet who could tell us the mind of God--a God, that if truly existed, would have created galaxies of trillions of plants and billions of Suns, trillions of miles from planet Earth. Yet, a man like Mohamed would know such a God's intentions.

To answer your question most succinctly, I do not think atheists care what kind of theist you are so long as you do not hinder the advancement of the knowledge or our world. Fundamentalist Christians hinder science with their moral objections to stem cell research, or the study of the theory of evolution, etc. and fundamentalist Muslims hinder science by keeping their populations uneducated in all things but the Koran. On a whole, I would say the Muslims are worse than the Christians.

Answer 3

On a world wide scale, No. Some Islamic countries will have you tortured just because you don't believe in their state religion. I don't think that's very accepting

When it comes to America, I find that Muslims are more accepting than Christians probably due to the fact that Christians are a majority and Muslims are a small minority.

Answer 4

Not at all. I feel that both groups are equally intolerant of atheists, and all differing beliefs. However, the ones at home vying for power and control are the Christians. Perhaps it's a bit short-sighted of me that I fear more what goes on in my own backyard rather than threats from abroad, but that's the way it is. That is not to say that I don't fear Muslim extremism. I do. But Christian extremism is a bit more close to home.

We all of us have cause to fear religious extremism, in whatever form it takes. It's what I despise about all religions the most, that capacity for violence bred from intolerance.

Answer 5

I have actually had better conversations with Muslims than with Christians. Christians are aways trying to SAVE people.

Answer 6

Not really ...... it just seems that way because extreme muslims has an axe to grind with the Christian and Christians has an axe to grind with the atheists.

Answer 7

In Islamic Shariah Muslim men can marry Christian or Jewish women and they dont need to ever change their faith.

This makes Muslims more tolerant since they are not under pressure to "save" the world by forcing their faith upon people who do not voluntarily want it.

Islam means the voluntary submission so if anyone is forced to convert then their "test" in this life is Null and Void.

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Answer 8

I don't know any muslims. I get along fine with my christian friends. I don't care what muslims and christians in general think about atheists in general.

Answer 9

Well I'm Muslim and I respect whatever belief system you choose to follow.

Answer 10

Atheists: Do you feel Muslims are more accepting of you than Christians?

dont think I care