Open discussion of the Christian Why We're Here thread

[Edwardo Piet]

I do not much care for being called a psychopath[...]

Luckily no one actually called you a psychopath, myself included. Twisting my words?

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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.

It's not an assumption... it's an extremely clear reality.

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But that's the thing though. People here say terribly offensive things and make generalizations and assumptions about theists all the time lol. Just look through the threads and even some of the thread titles alone. The generalizations and offensive things Neo said about atheists on the debate thread don't really compare to the amount aimed at theists throughout the rest of the forums.

And this is why I say the crucial difference is that he's wrong.

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Let's not kid ourselves. Neither Theists or Atheists are sincere to the truth.

Speak for yourself.

If we theists were, we would have long abandoned our idols and held on to God's rope and solved our disputes. Neither are Atheists who are trying to escape the conflict of religion and escape the striving necessary to reach the truth.

Funny how your example of atheists not being sincere relies entirely on your own presupposition that theism is true, ain't it?