(May 7, 2018 at 12:10 pm)Mathilda Wrote: On thinking about it further, it might be inevitable that theists offend others who don't share their dogma. Just one example off the top of my head. If you are indoctrinated into believing that homosexuality is sinful, then you are not going to be receptive to anything that gay people say to you to enlighten you. Same when it comes to dogma about abortion, women's rights, gender dysphoria, non-nuclear families, open relationships etc. It means that all the rational decisions that you had to make when living your life, which may not have been your choice, get brushed aside without consideration merely because it feels wrong to the indoctrinated theist. It effectively nullifies you as a person and that can be deeply insulting.
You're nullifying theists as people by assuming they were indoctrinated into those positions, rather than reaching them by rational thought.
