I get incredulous to some of the hypocrisy that gets spouted by religion and by some religious, and disgusted by some of the things that religion has caused, but never really offended.
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Does religious talk ever offend you?
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I find that I have little patience for those sanctimonious fuckheads.
 (March 28, 2012 at 2:38 pm)genkaus Wrote: To offend - meaning to cause displeasure, annoyance, anger or resentment. So, if you feel any of these emotions, then you are offended. Why is that such a bad thing? I didn't say it was a bad thing. I just said I don't get offended and I want to know how alone I am. I honestly don't get any of those emotions. Not sure how that is devaluing my beliefs...if anything, I'm devaluing theirs.
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Religious talk doesn't offend me, but it does make me uncomfortable at times. The reason is that my lack of religion offends them and I am made uncomfortable by the fact that I have to keep my mouth shut in "polite" society in order to avoid offending people that believe in fairy tales.
I agree 100% with Paul. Religious talk doesn't offend me (unless someone has the gall to tell me that I'm going to burn in hell, don't have morals, or some crap like that) but I do get a bit uncomfortable around it. But it really annoys the hell out of me that I know that my views on religion aren't welcomed or wanted by those who believe in magical beings, and I always have to hold my tongue when others are talking religion. I have no illusions about not being a second-class citizen if my atheism were to be public knowledge. Even among family I often have to keep my beliefs to myself since the fact that I don't believe in their delusion causes offense to them.
Christian apologetics is the art of rolling a dog turd in sugar and selling it as a donut.
 (March 28, 2012 at 2:20 pm)Shell B Wrote: A certain someone telling my ex-husband that he hoped he made peace with god before he went to Iraq in case he died there. Terribly thoughtless and I am still irritated about it. I feel  , and I don't even know you or your XH.
You are currently experiencing a lucky and very brief window of awareness, sandwiched in between two periods of timeless and utter nothingness. So why not make the most of it, and stop wasting your life away trying to convince other people that there is something else? The reality is obvious.
They can talk all the BS they want.
I am always offended by misogyny, racism, homophobia, cruelty, ignorance, Republicanism, and hatred based on religion being enacted into public policy and culture.
"A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything." -Friedrich Nietzsche
"All thinking men are atheists." -Ernest Hemmingway "Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities." -Voltaire 
I am also in agreement with Paul on this one. I know some people get offended when I tell them I don't believe in God or Jesus. But when they try to convince me that I am wrong in not believing in God, then I start to get irritated. When they try to be intelligent by parroting scripted lines from the Bible that I understand even better than them, I sense nothing but pure ignorance and delusion before my eyes. I also hate it when they say it is a matter of faith, not reason. Yeah, I know, THATS the whole problem! Why have faith in something which reason has shown to be clearly false and harmful? Faith (trust, confidence, asurrance) itself could be a good thing, a great thing! But not in that grotesque, hypocritical and dyfunctional religion!
I call myself a buddhist because I personally think it's awesome. I don't care if someone is indifferent to it, yet deep down inside I feel somewhat disturbed and uneasy if someone trivializes or disparages it. When I see this reaction in others, I view it as the opposite spectrum of ignorance and delusion. Yet even more truthfully and ultimately, I know this wall of ignorance and delusion still resides within me also. Buddhism does urge personal investigation and experimentation, Christianity urges blind submission to orthodoxy and herd mentality. Even the Christian mystics seem to espouse more buddhist beliefs than Christian, but are too indoctrinated and conditioned in the outdated propaganda to pull themselves out of the fucking New Testament.
You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.
There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth; not going all the way, and not starting. Buddha  
It kinda does offend me. Every time I hear someone talking about God in public, I think to myself: "Please, there are children around!"
"Sisters, you know only the north; I have traveled in the south lands. There are churches there, believe me, that cut their children too, as the people of Bolvangar did--not in the same way, but just as horribly. They cut their sexual organs, yes, both boys and girls; they cut them with knives so that they shan't feel. That is what the Church does, and every church is the same: control, destroy, obliterate every good feeling. So if a war comes, and the Church is on one side of it, we must be on the other, no matter what strange allies we find ourselves bound to."
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