(April 21, 2017 at 9:18 am)Mister Agenda Wrote:RoadRunner79 Wrote:And for some, a simple question invokes a paranoia and avoidance (mostly because of the source) the likes of which I've only experienced when dealing with those in a cult.
Yeah, the moral couldn't possibly be 'don't be the kind of poster who has earned distrust and suspicion due to their history.'
What cult did you belong to or deal with?
The only difference between a cult and an accepted religion is size and political power, the upstarts always get viewed with suspicion until enough of the mass grows to accept them.
Neo just backhandedly called atheist a cult, and I am sure he won't admit it.
No Neo, sorry, while the word "atheist" certainly doesn't have any magic power to make us only do good, it still is not a gang or a cult, the word merely means "off". And we don't always agree on politics or economics. I get tired of repeating that there are atheist who voted for Trump, other atheists like Che who lead to Castro's Cuba, I hate both of those attitudes.
We are not a cult, we have no secret handshake, we do not eat babies nor drink goats blood. We will not rape your women. If an individual atheist does bad, that only makes that individual bad. But we are still capable of obeying the law and being non violent and GASP even protecting the rights of the religious.
He wants us to be his evil boogieman and is upset when we wont let him paint us like that collectively.
