(August 26, 2011 at 1:34 pm)salty Wrote: THOR! That means just about every day you experience something that kind of makes you crazy!
No, it doesn't make me "crazy". It mostly makes me roll my eyes and think how deluded the person is.
Quote:I'm just imagining, in your shoes, what it feels like to be...bombarded with pressure to love someone that you don't know or care about.
Fortunately, I was not raised in a household where this kind of pressure was prevalent. However, I have heard (and seen videos of) the kind of pressure put on people (particularly kids) to believe the religious teachings of their parents. Entire families will estrange themselves from a family member who is an atheist. If this isn't "pressure to love someone you don't know or care about", I don't know what is.
Quote:It would be like me seeing signs about Vishnu or...Zues or...Apollo! Something that I didn't feel was real, all over people's cars, their faces, their bodies, in public places...wow, you're right that would be so irritating.
I never said it was irritating. I said that believers are LOUD in proclaiming what they consider to be "the truth". Since they are LOUD, I'll be equally LOUD. Even so, I don't knock on the doors of strangers and hand out atheist literature. I don't stand on street corners shouting that there is no god. I don't have a tv or radio network broadcasting atheist programming.
It is believers who changed the Pledge of Allegiance to include the words "under God". It is believers who put "In God we trust" on our money. It is believers who put renderings of the Ten Commandments in public courthouses. It is believers who want public proclamations calling for prayer. It is believers want to infuse their propaganda into every day life. This is what I find to be "irritating".
Science flies us to the moon and stars. Religion flies us into buildings.
God allowed 200,000 people to die in an earthquake. So what makes you think he cares about YOUR problems?
God allowed 200,000 people to die in an earthquake. So what makes you think he cares about YOUR problems?