Are athiests bigots?

Question

It seems that athiests are always screaming about religious freedom while at the same time telling everyone that their religions are totally bogus and insulting their Gods. Are athiests bigots just like the rest of the monotheistic religions?

Okay Athiests ... I dont understand ... I see thousands of questions about how Christians, Jews, and Islam are bigots placed on here every day but the second I write one asking if Athiest are I am insulting you ... point taken

Answer 1

I can't say all of them are, but I'd be willing to bet that a great deal of them are.
But Christians are just as bad at preaching the word of God but not practicing it. I don't know how many Christians take it upon themselves to judge others and tell them what's going to happen to them, when it's not their place to.

I believe God's intentions were for EVERYONE to have free will, that would include the Atheists as well, even if they don't believe in God they still deserve that right and Christians shouldn't take it upon themselves to punish them for not believeing.

Answer 2

Anyone can be a bigot.

However, I believe in religious freedom, and I do speak out against some religions, especially those who's participants try and shove their beliefs down my throat.

I do not insult any ones deity, unless I am cracking a joke. And I am merely using my right to speak when I say that some religions make no sense, etc.

I hope this helps. I am only one person, so I only speak for me, not the general population of atheists...

Answer 3

I have no challenge with people who opt for to be non secular. I also have a challenge with those that rigidity their ideals on others. And all people who expresses a racist, sexist, xenophobic, homophobic and so on techniques-set, a number of those actual everyone seems to be non secular, some are not. i might say however, somewhat some christians make the errors of assuming that as quickly as atheists attack non secular people they advise all non secular people, (i'm beneficial some probably do) yet maximum are aiming their hatred on the greater proper wing components of religion. There are extremes on the two sides, and it does ought to pronounced that the greater vocal of the two communities are the extremes, particularly than the greater average. i in my opinion have not got lots time for any form of enthusiast of any group, they are all damaging to their reason or theory.

Answer 4

I find it very offensive to read things about ALL atheists and how we are all ignorant and push the lack of religion on others. Honestly, religion does not make a person. I think it is wonderful that individuals live their lives with passion, regardless of whom they choose to follow - in my case, I choose to follow my thought. Bigotry has absolutely nothing to do with having a lack of organized religion; or I should say, it has nothing to do with MY lack of organized religion. I have found most atheists and agnostics to be extremely accepting. In fact, this is why I do not categorize myself in a particular religion; I disliked conforming to the beliefs of my church, telling me who may love whom and with what vivacity our religion has the right to slander other religions.
Religion does not provide definitions and I think that this is what is causing so much friction in our world.
I am not an 'athiest,' per say. If you were to group all of humanity according to traits, divisions caused by religion would cause inter-group war. Sound familiar?
I am a group called Caroline. And the qualifications to be in this group? Well, one must be a hard news editor of a high school paper. One must love Ansel Adams and being on the road at four in the morning when the sky is dark and the highway is mine, one must throw pennies on the sidewalk for extraneous children, and never, ever hinder the thought process.
Where can I put you? Would you rather be in 'Christianity' or 'Buddhism' or 'Atheist/Bigotry' or 'Judaism/Bigotry,' or would you like to be in one more specified than a nerve cell, one that explains exactly who you are and what you believe, what YOU believe, one that takes note of the tassels of your personality and volumes of compassion and the way your hair falls when you wake up at night because the moon is so bright on your pillow? Bigotry is interspersed. In the big picture, there are not ten groups, there are not twenty-nine, each with a xeroxed list of prejudices and forgivings tacked outside their tent.
I have just as equal of a chance of being a bigot as you do, because we both live in the same world, don't we? It is the way one interacts with the other trillions of groups crawling the face of the earth that molds their religion. Some are governed by gods; mine is not.
Atheists are beautiful, you are beautiful, and if religion lights your eyes, then take her away. Your God does not speak to me as He speaks to you, but I do not wish to slander Him or disrespect you for your beliefs. And in the end, I am not created by religion, but does it really matter? Please do not assume that my creation of myself makes me ignorant. Please do not assume anything about a group of people until you have met every one, and then perhaps it will be realized that humans can not be grouped by religion. My thoughts are mine and not atheism's. Believe whatever strikes your fancy, that is what I am doing and I am perfectly content.

Answer 5

You say that they "scream about religious freedom" and that they "tell everyone their religions are bogus" as if those are somehow contradictory.

They should have the freedom to believe, just as you do. They should also have the freedom to express their opinions, just as you do.

Everyone has the freedom to believe silly things, but it comes at the price of being mocked by those who exercise their freedom by saying how silly those things are.

Answer 6

Absolutely not. We object to superstitious beliefs. Why should we have to automatically respect someone's belief. We evaluate people's reasons for their beliefs. If I said that the holocaust never happened, you wouldn't be obligated to respect my belief. Religion has gotten a free ride to be exempt from criticism for such a long time. I think that should now end. If religion was not the cause of so much conflict, I would not have much objection, but there is so much needless violence based on archaic ideologies. It is time that we end this nonsense and stop indoctrinating children to have beliefs that are almost certainly wrong.

Answer 7

No. I think they have a right to be athiests, and even scream about religious freedom, but they cross a line when they tell everyone that religion is bs.

Answer 8

No, that's such a generalization. Athiest are just as bigoted as extreme christans or jews or whatever. Some people, with different beliefs, are just extreme: it's not just athiests.

Answer 9

You just answered your own question. Sure there are extremist atheist just as much as there are extremist catholics or muslims. You can't generalize.

I don't feel insulted. I just think you are uninformed and that you have had bad experiences with some atheists. Just like I have had bad encounters with Christians and Catholics. Still I no longer generalize; I'm more informed and I know some people are good and some people are bad, whether they are atheists, catholics, muslims, jews, etc, etc, etc.

Answer 10

Okay first you cannot make sweeping generalizations of this sort. Second I think it is reasonable that Atheists want religious freedom because they are frequently denied it. Third using facts, logic and reason should not be looked down upon.