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Are Atheists a little too defensive?

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Are Atheists a little too defensive?
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RE: Are Atheists a little too defensive?
December 5, 2010 at 5:23 pm
(December 5, 2010 at 3:05 pm)Lethe Wrote: [quote='thesummerqueen' pid='108269' dateline='1291570115']I had no idea there was a possibility of being a 'poseur' Atheist.

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Oh yeah, bring it! Nothing like that old time christian paranoia!

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RE: Are Atheists a little too defensive?
December 5, 2010 at 5:26 pm
(December 5, 2010 at 2:49 pm)Minimalist Wrote: I enjoy getting offensive.

I enjoy it when you get offensive. Big Grin
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RE: Are Atheists a little too defensive?
December 5, 2010 at 5:28 pm (This post was last modified: December 5, 2010 at 5:30 pm by thesummerqueen.)
(December 5, 2010 at 5:26 pm)Shell B Wrote:
(December 5, 2010 at 2:49 pm)Minimalist Wrote: I enjoy getting offensive.

I enjoy it when you get offensive. Big Grin

I was going to say "I never would have guessed" but I think I'm just going to say "ditto".
(December 5, 2010 at 3:05 pm)Lethe Wrote: An atheist with a book entitled Losing Our Religion. Oh Fox... Hilarious

GAG GAG GAG

Oh...I'm sorry...we're making fun of Christianity?

Heaven forfend we make fun of the people who steal money, lie, kill, rape, abuse, and engage in "misinformation" of the acutest kind, and not even for security reasons...just because they want control over your vital and sexual organs.
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RE: Are Atheists a little too defensive?
December 5, 2010 at 5:53 pm
(December 4, 2010 at 10:24 pm)Prosimian Wrote: My experience with Atheists hasn't been a very good one.
I'm hoping that the people who reply to this post will give me some hope out there that I don't have to be ashamed of not believing, just because I'm not as certain and proclaim myself to be more Agnostic at times.. I'm still searching for an answer to why most of the Atheists I have talked to seem to be so unrealistically defensive about their stance. Hopefully joining this forum will help me to meet nice atheists. I still have hope Smile

Atheists? Defensive? Who told you that? What are you talking about? Rubbish, shut up, we're not defensive, we're totally self-secure! Religious lies, religious lies... brainwashing...

'We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.' H.L. Mencken

'False religion' is the ultimate tautology.

'It is just like man's vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions.' Mark Twain

'I care not much for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.' Abraham Lincoln
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RE: Are Atheists a little too defensive?
December 5, 2010 at 6:04 pm
Welcome Prosimian. My experience of this forum is that it is demographically more agnostic-atheist ie there is no reason to believe in a god, rather than there is no god. There are a few of us hard liners, but I think most of us believe that other positions (even theism) are respectable, just not correct.
"I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence"...Doug McLeod.
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RE: Are Atheists a little too defensive?
December 5, 2010 at 6:47 pm
(December 5, 2010 at 5:26 pm)Shell B Wrote:
(December 5, 2010 at 2:49 pm)Minimalist Wrote: I enjoy getting offensive.

I enjoy it when you get offensive. Big Grin



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RE: Are Atheists a little too defensive?
December 5, 2010 at 7:20 pm (This post was last modified: December 5, 2010 at 7:20 pm by Skipper.)
NO WE ARE NOT DEFENSIVE! STOP ASKING STUPID QUESTIONS! BECAUSE IM RIGHT!!!
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RE: Are Atheists a little too defensive?
December 5, 2010 at 9:56 pm (This post was last modified: December 5, 2010 at 9:57 pm by Oldandeasilyconfused.)
Am I too defensive about my atheism?

After thinking about the question for a couple of days,I've concluded no, I'm not, I'm perfectly reasonable. I base this conclusion on evidence:

I have never ever hit anyone who has attacked my atheism nor called them a cunt,.(so far). Devil
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RE: Are Atheists a little too defensive?
December 6, 2010 at 6:41 pm (This post was last modified: December 6, 2010 at 6:41 pm by Justtristo.)
We atheists have to be somewhat defensive when the Evangelical Christians are on the offensive all the time.
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RE: Are Atheists a little too defensive?
December 6, 2010 at 6:55 pm
Yes, Atheists are too defensive. We need to go for the kill at every opportunity.
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