RE: Wanting some feedback from the atheists
November 18, 2018 at 11:00 pm
(This post was last modified: November 18, 2018 at 11:01 pm by SteelCurtain.)
(November 18, 2018 at 8:58 pm)Catholic_Lady Wrote: Do yall think an atheist trying to convince someone out of their faith is equal to a theist trying to convert?
I think if a person entered into a conversation or engaged a stranger with the intent of convincing someone out of their faith, then yeah, that's shitty.
But I'd echo the disparity here---atheists are generally on defense. I have never gone door to door nor do I have plans to. Even Anthony Magnabosco is professedly not trying to change people's minds, in fact he says that's the worst approach. Instead, make people confront their own epistemology.
So, yes, all things being equal, it's just as bad. But we can't equivocate---while I'm sure you could find a street corner atheist telling people their are wasting their time, I could find 10 Westboro Baptists that make that guy look like just another hippie.
"There remain four irreducible objections to religious faith: that it wholly misrepresents the origins of man and the cosmos, that because of this original error it manages to combine the maximum servility with the maximum of solipsism, that it is both the result and the cause of dangerous sexual repression, and that it is ultimately grounded on wish-thinking." ~Christopher Hitchens, god is not Great
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