Comments on: Hostility Towards Religion? http://atheists.org/blog/2006/11/10/title_15 A Blog of Atheist Thought Fri, 10 Feb 2012 03:47:55 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: spartacus007 http://atheists.org/blog/2006/11/10/title_15/comment-page-1#comment-47542 spartacus007 Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-47542 Everyone deserves to be treated with respsect. We shouldn't pull punches, but being too vitrolic and attacking religious people interferes with the message and turns people off. I think its more important to be a good person than necessarily an atheist. Everyone deserves to be treated with respsect. We shouldn’t pull punches, but being too vitrolic and attacking religious people interferes with the message and turns people off. I think its more important to be a good person than necessarily an atheist.

]]> By: karen http://atheists.org/blog/2006/11/10/title_15/comment-page-1#comment-47543 karen Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-47543 Religion on a personal basis is tolerable. It's when people want to inflict their religion on others that it becomes an issue. <br /> People must be allowed to have their private thoughts and beliefs. If we want the freedom to be atheistic, then we must respect the theistic thoughts of others. <br /> But religion should remain private. It doesn't belong in the public or government domain. Trying to make it the latter is intolerable. Religion on a personal basis is tolerable. It’s when people want to inflict their religion on others that it becomes an issue.
People must be allowed to have their private thoughts and beliefs. If we want the freedom to be atheistic, then we must respect the theistic thoughts of others.
But religion should remain private. It doesn’t belong in the public or government domain. Trying to make it the latter is intolerable.

]]> By: PusBoy http://atheists.org/blog/2006/11/10/title_15/comment-page-1#comment-47544 PusBoy Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-47544 It's an interesting question. I work with a lot of people with disabilities, and they don't want to be "cured." It's part of who they are.<br /> <br /> So, no, we shouldn't try to force people out of their beliefs, no matter how opposite our views might be. <br /> <br /> I think that if we're honest about what we believe, others might examine their beliefs, as well.<br /> <br /> Plus, I don't demand respect from anyone, and I don't give it without merit. It’s an interesting question. I work with a lot of people with disabilities, and they don’t want to be “cured.” It’s part of who they are.

So, no, we shouldn’t try to force people out of their beliefs, no matter how opposite our views might be.

I think that if we’re honest about what we believe, others might examine their beliefs, as well.

Plus, I don’t demand respect from anyone, and I don’t give it without merit.

]]> By: alexatheist http://atheists.org/blog/2006/11/10/title_15/comment-page-1#comment-47546 alexatheist Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-47546 Would we extend respect to adults who believe in faeries or the easter bunny? or even zeus or thor? so why is it that those who believe in the abrahamic god deserve our respect? The blunt answer is that they don't deserve respect becasue they are delusional and ignorant. We must stop coddling these fools and enabling their stupidity.<br /> <br /> Rock on Dawkins! Would we extend respect to adults who believe in faeries or the easter bunny? or even zeus or thor? so why is it that those who believe in the abrahamic god deserve our respect? The blunt answer is that they don’t deserve respect becasue they are delusional and ignorant. We must stop coddling these fools and enabling their stupidity.

Rock on Dawkins!

]]> By: Monika http://atheists.org/blog/2006/11/10/title_15/comment-page-1#comment-47548 Monika Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-47548 Respect is perhaps not quite the right word because I don't think very highly of theists but if they want to believe in whatever over there somewhere (away from me) then that doesn't bother me. I don't feel the need to proselytise atheism.<br /> <br /> I imagine religious people want to be "cured" of belief about as much as we atheists want to be "saved".<br /> Respect is perhaps not quite the right word because I don’t think very highly of theists but if they want to believe in whatever over there somewhere (away from me) then that doesn’t bother me. I don’t feel the need to proselytise atheism.

I imagine religious people want to be “cured” of belief about as much as we atheists want to be “saved”.

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