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Originally Posted by August
If you're right then why the constant stream of invective? Can atheists not declare their atheism without insulting religion?
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Atheists, all those that I knew or know, do not declare their atheism like any idoelogy, because it is none. It is the absence of it. Don'T know how it is where oyu live, but over here, we see and hear the church or some Islamic group or the Vatikan constantly banging the drum on how right they are and how oh and how hey. They claim a right founded in their belief or tradition to be given access to public spaces, opportunity to transform communal and legislative structures to their liking, and priviliges that they do not deserve.
No wonder then that atheists react with counter-pushing. People do not and must not actively or passively fall back and compromise their own way of living for the benfit of relgions that they do not believe in. Freedom to practice religion must also mean freedom FROM religion, else you end up with relgious supression. The freedom of relgious people end where their oractciing limits the freedom of others who share not their belief.
Verursacherprinzip.
Keep thy religion to thyself. Anything truly devine would speak to you in the silence of your heart'S inner soul anyway. So why that noise you make in the outside world?
An evergreen, often played, often linked by me, and still so good:
Step onto a ssnake, and get bitten. Anger a Lama, and it spits at you. Beat a dog, and see it attacking you. Expect non-believers to limit their freedoms for the benefit of the freedom that your religion demands for itself, and don't be surprised if they get pissed. What is so difficult to understand in that? Your freedom ends where you start to limit that of the other. The other's tolerance for you ends, where you do not tolerate him.