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The Incredible Lightness Of Being An Atheist
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RE: The Incredible Lightness Of Being An Atheist
(November 27, 2011 at 10:02 am)little_monkey Wrote: It doesn't matter if that's 10% or 20%, if you live in area that 99% are christians, and most of them are obnoxious. You happen to live in a country that seems to be tolerable, so you are totally clueless as to what it is to live in closet, fearing that if anyone could out you, your quality of life would take a plunge for the worse. You can philosophize all you want with your arrogant attitude in your ivory tower, but keep that to yourself until you are faced with that kind of life experience.

I don't doubt that it's gotta suck, and i have suffered from outing myself as an atheist (not nearly as much as those in the Bible Belt would though, from what i've heard) but it's no reason to generalize that behavior to all christians, because it is, again, subjective anecdotal evidence.

Again, i'm tired of both sides of the argument only seeing the other side by its worst stereotypes, it's is just so insane and leads to nothing but confrontation and ego-stroking ("THESE people are assholes, this makes me BETTER", or "reality show watcher syndrome")
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RE: The Incredible Lightness Of Being An Atheist - by padraic - November 23, 2011 at 6:15 pm
RE: The Incredible Lightness Of Being An Atheist - by Kree - November 23, 2011 at 9:02 pm
RE: The Incredible Lightness Of Being An Atheist - by IATIA - November 23, 2011 at 9:24 pm
RE: The Incredible Lightness Of Being An Atheist - by Rwandrall - November 26, 2011 at 11:50 am
RE: The Incredible Lightness Of Being An Atheist - by Rwandrall - November 27, 2011 at 10:23 am
RE: The Incredible Lightness Of Being An Atheist - by padraic - November 26, 2011 at 4:45 pm
RE: The Incredible Lightness Of Being An Atheist - by Kree - November 28, 2011 at 12:48 am

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