Antitheism

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Yes.  And rightly so.



Naive, it is not.

It is a jarring, unsympathetic, but an absolutely deserved and necessary wake-up call.

Everyone is responsible for themselves.  Period.

Especially if you're hurting others with your stupid doctrine.

To tell the victims that suffer as a result of the evils of that doctrine,
that they should be sympathetic to the idiot perpetuators of that doctrine,
is appalling.

That's like telling the LGBT that they should not hold Right-Wing Christians responsible
for opposing the LGBT right to marry in a country that is not a Theocracy.

That's like telling young girls in the Middle East that they are wrong to hold Muslim men responsible
for mutilating the genitals of said young girls, because their religion says it's okay.

And you call MY point of view "despicable".

Your pandering to those in the grip of religion is the very attitude that encourages religious groups to make more and more demands for accommodation.


you're absolutely right.

We should just always accommodate people with violent beliefs
and never point out their hypocrisy to them
or hold them accountable in any way,

because it's only rational, decent, intelligent, peaceful people who should be held rigidly responsible for their actions.

Or maybe nobody should be held responsible.

What's wrong with you????


Which side of this argument are you on????

Charlie Hebdo exercised their freedom of speech and religious maniacs shot them to bits,
and now you're telling me I shouldn't hold those religious maniacs accountable for their religious mania.


Um, no.

It is the religious who control minds.  And I agree that it is despicable.

What I am trying to do, is free them.

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You're claiming we should hold those with violent beliefs responsible for actions they did not yet commit

NO.  Remember a few posts back when I said I would object to religion
even if that religion was completely non-violent in its entire history?

I am promoting personal accountability
...NOT trying to make some innocent people accountable for the actions of others.

That would defeat my entire purpose.

And as I said,

if all religion honestly acknowledged that what they offered was merely a THEORY
instead of touting it as TRUTH,
I wouldn't have the problem with it that I do.