RE: Do people hate the actual belief in God, or just the religious organizations?
November 6, 2016 at 9:02 am
(November 5, 2016 at 10:06 pm)goombah111 Wrote:(November 3, 2016 at 3:03 am)operator Wrote: to OP
Religion does tend to ruin things and while most dumb people do believe in a god of some kind, believing in a god doesn't necessarily make you dumb. Although religion does, at times, make intelligent people very stupid.
Still though, I can't say I hate religion, religious people or religious institutions. I do feel some level of disgust and disdain for some of the things religious folks say and do, but I don't know if "hate" is quite the right word to use. I don't think I have ever met a non-believer who "hates" religious folks or religion itself for that matter.
Where exactly do you get this idea that atheists "hate" religion?
review this thread and others. ridicule, much worse than laughing, has been put on theists by atheists.
disrespecting, implying they are dumb, and/or flat out calling them stupid/dumb/retarded/etc.
I don't think mockery or poking fun quite counts as hatred. It might serve you well to understand that to the atheist, you talking about jesus or god is the same as if we were talking to you about unicorns. It's just silly. Doesn't mean YOU are dumb if you believe in it... but you're certainly not applying your intelligence to that area of your life.
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It is the air and light of every heart – builder of every home, kindler of every fire on every hearth. It was the first to dream of immortality. It fills the world with melody – for music is the voice of love.
Love is the magician, the enchanter, that changes worthless things to Joy, and makes royal kings and queens of common clay. It is the perfume of that wondrous flower, the heart, and without that sacred passion, that divine swoon, we are less than beasts; but with it, earth is heaven, and we are gods.” - Robert. G. Ingersoll
