How should Atheists and Religous people treat each other?

[yubba]

Atheist should mind their own business, just like liberals if they don't like something, no one should have it or do it, and that my freind is a mental disorder.

[August]

Originally Posted by yubba

Atheist should mind their own business, just like liberals if they don't like something, no one should have it or do it, and that my freind is a mental disorder.

That's a two road street there Yubba.

[Buddahaid]

Both possibilities are equally absurd but in general I think Atheists just want Christians to get out of their lives, and quit trying to pass their own form of "Sharia law".

And I don't think the two are mutually exclusive as laws of nature have to have been created somehow. It's more whether you can accept they were created by a will, or not.

[Sailor Steve]

Everyone should treat everyone with respect.




Except perhaps people who make useless polls.

[Cybermat47]

Originally Posted by Sailor Steve

Except perhaps people who make useless polls.

I wouldn't say that this poll is useless.

I mean, yubba and Gargamel obviously think that people who don't share their opinions are insane (and I respect that). But other people, like you, obviously believe everyone (apart from the 13 year old boy writing this right now) deserves respect.

I'm interested in finding out about other peoples opinions. Plenty of people are (No, I'm not going to put up a poll about that).

[Takeda Shingen]

It's the way you phrased your poll. Instead of being subjective, you put it along the lines of 'should we help old ladies across the street or run them over with our cars?'.

[Cybermat47]

Originally Posted by Takeda Shingen

It's the way you phrased your poll. Instead of being subjective, you put it along the lines of 'should we help old ladies across the street or run them over with our cars?'.

Run them over. Definitely


Seriously, though, I see what you mean.

Thanks for the heads up!

[Fish]

Originally Posted by Cybermat47

But other people, like you, obviously believe everyone (apart from the 13 year old boy writing this right now) deserves respect.

I think you (and anybody els) should earn respect before I offer it to you.

[Cybermat47]

Originally Posted by Fish

I think you (and anybody els) should earn respect before I offer it to you.

Fair enough.

[Sailor Steve]

Originally Posted by Cybermat47

I wouldn't say that this poll is useless.

Sorry I didn't pay close enough attention to this one earlier.

What makes a poll useless (to my mind)? Simply the fact that it's not useful. It's obvious what the answer is going to be. No one is honestly going to say they think people should treat each other badly. The ones who did were almost certainly joking. Therefore, a poll this limited accomplishes nothing, and is therefore useless.

Also, you haven't been here long enough to know my sense of humor. For that I apologize.

But other people, like you, obviously believe everyone (apart from the 13 year old boy writing this right now) deserves respect.

Not true. I believe in showing everyone respect until they prove they don't deserve it; exactly the opposite of the "must be earned" school of thought. I certainly respect your opinions. My mostly-not-serious comment wasn't about opinions, it was about polls that can only have one serious answer.

I'm interested in finding out about other peoples opinions. Plenty of people are (No, I'm not going to put up a poll about that).

Most of the old-timers here (and I mean those who have been here for awhile, not those of us who are genuinely old) already know each others' opinions on most subjects, and have already decided who deserves our respect and who doesn't

My comment about "useless polls" wasn't about your question, only about the poll itself. Asking questions is the only way to learn. Endless polls don't serve that purpose. This is true of most of the polls that have ever been started in General Topics.