(December 30, 2012 at 8:53 pm)Mark 13:13 Wrote: They can't because by the nature of both positions they are staking their very life/lives/eternal existance on it and no one want to be wrong. So with feelings this powerfull well....
This really gets at how asymmetric the relationship between theist and atheist can be. Atheists have nothing at stake .. until religion reaches out to proclaim the country a Christian one and seek to insinuate its values and goals into the law. Then of course, we can get a little bitchy.
I can refrain from trying to de-convert your babies but would really appreciate it if you and all theist-kind could embrace secularism in public affairs. I teach young people but do not broach religious topics or disclose my own lack of religious interest. I see no justification for exploiting my position to proselytize. I wish theists would be as considerate.
