(October 9, 2017 at 12:12 pm)Little lunch Wrote: Would it be identity politics if an atheist claimed that all theists are stupid? Just wondering.
I get the impression that the people who make threads like this consider all atheists to be far left.
It seems they don't know anybody from that side, so they come here hoping to trigger someone.
What sort of person does that?
I guess that some of that sort of person's attributes would be anger, dishonesty, vengefulness, pettiness, etc.
Excellent point.
Because "atheist" is not a skin tone. It isn't even a political party.
If our right supporting theists members here stupidly think all atheists have the same skin tone and political and economic views, they are full of shit.
In my 16 years of online debate, I have had it out with republican voting atheists, libertarian voting atheists, and atheists whom stupidly think Che, the asshole whom lead to Castro's Cuba, supporters.
We are NOT a gang, nor can you look at an atheist, like Hitler thought you could look and spot a Jew. We are quite diverse, in our nationalities, in our classes, our political views and we have left every religion you can think of.
The only thing "atheist" means is "off" on one claim. Outside that we are not sheep.
I've seen atheists start pro gun threads on other websites. I find them as just as delusional as the far right Christians.
There is no loyalty oath for the word "atheist". "Atheist" is also not a gene, it is a position.
I lean left because I lean to empathy, and I side with economic empathy even when I share that attitude with a theist, even when I don't agree that you need a God to have empathy.
I am not anti private sector for being pro livable wages. I hate Hitler and Stalin and Un and Castro. But that does not mean our current trickle down is working, because it is not.