RE: Does Atheism Need to be Rebranded?
April 10, 2012 at 11:08 pm
(This post was last modified: April 10, 2012 at 11:17 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
If someones religious thoughts and feelings are disgusting to me, then I am anti-"their thoughts and feelings", aren't I? So what? Doesn't stop them from having them. Sometimes people think things that bother the shit out of me Shell, it isnt the thinking that bothers me, it's the things being thought. Religion is a long list of things being thought. Ergo anti-theist.
We are talking about anti-religion right (that's the second time I've asked this for the same reason). You equate anti-religion with anti-the group(the religious). I equate anti-religion with anti-religion (the thing). I'm not talking about something unrelated to your comment, I'm suggesting that your idea of anti-religion may be a bit of a mix-up (a mix up that paints that broad brush in the hue of bigotry which I do believe that you've actually commented upon-turn about is fair play). There are religious people who are positively pleasant otherwise (and the same is true of Klansman, as I've already mentioned). That doesn't make their position with regards to religion any more palatable (same with Billy Bob in the white hat). You can take the negative value judgements you have about Billy Bob as a member of the KKK and confidently say that he's probably a peice of shit, even if he cooks a mean barbeque, helps out his neighbors, and all his buddies swear by him right? Allow me the same for John Q Churchgoer, eh? Now, ultimately, I'd agree with you, Billy Bob is a piece of shit, unless he just wears the white hat and doesn't go in with all the prejudice shit, right? How about John Q Churchgoer, just believes in god, full stop? Seems to me that both of these people are accomplices in the con. That doesn't get either of them brownie points from me.
We are talking about anti-religion right (that's the second time I've asked this for the same reason). You equate anti-religion with anti-the group(the religious). I equate anti-religion with anti-religion (the thing). I'm not talking about something unrelated to your comment, I'm suggesting that your idea of anti-religion may be a bit of a mix-up (a mix up that paints that broad brush in the hue of bigotry which I do believe that you've actually commented upon-turn about is fair play). There are religious people who are positively pleasant otherwise (and the same is true of Klansman, as I've already mentioned). That doesn't make their position with regards to religion any more palatable (same with Billy Bob in the white hat). You can take the negative value judgements you have about Billy Bob as a member of the KKK and confidently say that he's probably a peice of shit, even if he cooks a mean barbeque, helps out his neighbors, and all his buddies swear by him right? Allow me the same for John Q Churchgoer, eh? Now, ultimately, I'd agree with you, Billy Bob is a piece of shit, unless he just wears the white hat and doesn't go in with all the prejudice shit, right? How about John Q Churchgoer, just believes in god, full stop? Seems to me that both of these people are accomplices in the con. That doesn't get either of them brownie points from me.
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