(October 28, 2015 at 12:55 pm)RationalAtheist Wrote: That took awhile to reply to everyone so far, sorry for the delay, I REALLY appreciate everyone being respectful and thoughtful in your responses, I did want to add one other thing however.....I'm especially ashamed of how I used to view atheists prior to becoming an atheist, and how hateful my speech towards them must have sounded, when it was actually just ignorance. I suspect if there are any LGBT that are reading this that are offended by something I said, Please accept the possibility that I just have not fully understood your point of view, and post a reply to help educate me, I may have even put words in your mouth or attributed a position to you that is incorrect. Please reply and correct me if i did.
Absolutely no problem. We're all ignorant about a lot of things. What matters is that we recognise when we don't know something and want to learn more. There's a whole lifetime of indoctrination that you need to sort through, assumptions that you don't even know that you have made and emotional associations formed since you were young. We're all subject to that to a lesser or greater degree and it takes a concerted and sustained effort to become a free-thinker that never really ends.
