RE: I Would Like To Talk to Atheists Who Aren't Assholes. Do Any of You Exist?
September 22, 2012 at 7:51 pm
(September 22, 2012 at 4:15 pm)Darkstar Wrote: Maybe it is because you are Catholic and have been around others like you that you think they are nice. Why is it that there are all these stories of people's Catholic friends ostrachizing them when they come out of the closet as atheists? If you were a known atheist all of your life, I bet they would have treated you differently. Sure, they aren't all jerks, but to say they're mostly nice without considering our point of view seems a little baised.
Good point.
Other members of the 'in group' are always treated better than the 'out group'. It's evolutionary based human nature.
You'd believe if you just opened your heart" is a terrible argument for religion. It's basically saying, "If you bias yourself enough, you can convince yourself that this is true." If religion were true, people wouldn't need faith to believe it -- it would be supported by good evidence.
