RE: Why do you think atheists pay so much attention to religion?
August 5, 2011 at 9:15 pm
(This post was last modified: August 5, 2011 at 9:31 pm by Justtristo.)
(July 21, 2011 at 8:54 pm)BethK Wrote: Indeed. Even non-Christians consider the word "God" to be referring to the Christian God. Few NeoPagans will just call their male divine being "God", but will refer to Him by some particular name, the warrior, the consoler, the hunter, etc. Some will talk about "Goddess", and many of nonChristian religions will refer to their Gods and Goddesses as "the divine" or "a divine being". Jews will write about "G-d", Muslims about "Allah", and so forth. The name "God" refers to a particular storm deity Who talked to Moses gave him the 5 books of the Bible, talked to Abraham and got him ready to sacrifice his son on an altar, talked to many prophets, then got some teenaged girl pregnant with himself, talked her fiance into marrying her anyway and rearing his child.... and the deadbeat didn't pay child support or even as he was omnipotent, make Joseph fabulously wealthy.
In Australia at least in my experience that is much the case that god = Yahweh. Although for myself that is not the case, hence I am comfortable in using god as a abstract concept.
I will tell a story, once a I was talking to a guy and he stated "if scientific evidence for god was found, the person who discover it would win the Nobel Prize" and I wondered which god. Now I know he was referring specifically to Yahweh.
Although Australia is the kind of place where Atheists aren't exposed to the kind treatment they get in say the USA. However we have a small evangelical Christian community who despise Atheists, particularly well thought out, outspoken ones. One of the reasons I joined here was to counter the sheer ignorance of those people when they denounce atheism and atheists. I figured it was time to fight fire with fire.
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