(February 10, 2018 at 7:37 am)Die Atheistin Wrote: Some moderate religious I know or heard about use their religion more for comfort than as a guide. They might use it as a guide, but to a lesser extent. I've noticed that many of them get very defensive if you tell them they should leave their faith. When I say defensive, I don't necesarilly mean violent or mean, it could also mean that they feel attacked. Maybe they're not expressing it out loud, but they seem scared to me. Also, they get nervous if someone close to them wants to leave their faith.
I'm talking about religious that don't believe in eternal punishment. Using religion for comfort and not wanting to leave it is one thing, but being afraid of it is too much. They have the Right by law to have a religion, then why are they nervous if someone disagrees with them? Why are they nervous if someone close to them leaves the faith? Do they think that the said person will be unhappy? How do they know that the said person is unhappy? And if the person can't resist without religion, they can return to it whenever they want.
I get why fundamentalists are afraid of atheism, but why are some moderates too?
One theist to another they can understand and accept. After all the other person just believes a different version of what they believe.
But atheism is a complete rejection of their core belief. There is no version that is in any way compatible. It scares them as it basically tells them that you think is completely wrong.
Theists just like the echo chamber of agreement.
I would task theists here to go to a theist site and say atheist things then see how long they are tolerated.
You can fix ignorance, you can't fix stupid.
Tinkety Tonk and down with the Nazis.
