(January 18, 2016 at 7:23 pm)MysticKnight Wrote: I don't know how it is in America, but in Canada, particularly in Ottawa, where I live, I've found society pretty tolerant of people including Atheists.
I hope society learns to be tolerant to humans to whatever they chose, and be forbearing.
That said, I think Atheism ought to be combated and the system that replaces it ought to be love of the best of God's chosen ones by following their guidance and give sanctity to their light in all things.
Uggggg, you really should know better than that having been on this website for how long?
First you say "I hope society learns to be tolerant to humans to whatever they chose, and be forbearing."
Then you say.
"That said, I think Atheism ought to be combated and the system that replaces it ought to be love of the best of God's chosen ones by following their guidance and give sanctity to their light in all things."
We should be fought? Why? Because we don't hold the same belief you do? Ok we feel religion should be fought, so? I hope you mean verbally only because that is where most atheists are at in "fighting" religion.
"God's chosen ones", damn, too dense to see that is the crux of the problem right there. Christians and Jews also view themselves as the "Chosen ones". You cant see that claiming to be chosen pits you against other humans who also claim their god chose them?
How about another option? The idea of a "chosen people" is the most vile idea any religion sells. It is why Sunnis and Shiites cant get along. Why Christians hate Muslims and Muslims hate Christians and Jews hate Muslims. Because all three stupidly think daddy likes them more than the other. It would be laughable if all three religions didn't have Nukes.
You were not "chosen" and neither are Christians and neither are Jews. There are simply humans with different beliefs and still no evidence for any three. Now it is unreasonable for any of you to think the others will magically go away, but no, there is no "chosen people".
That is nothing more than schoolyard street gang mentality. I am not that selfish to think the world could not live without me. I am not the only human on a planet of 7 billion.