RE: Study says coming out as atheist can help reduce prejudice towards atheists
January 31, 2013 at 3:47 pm
I am actually reserved about being an atheist except in the company of other atheists. For the most part I don't see it mattering all that much.
The problem is, as I have mentioned at least a thousand times now, is that while I don't shove my atheism in peoples' faces, religions are more than happy to shove their beliefs into mine, in dozens of forms; giant fucking crosses, huge buildings on the side of the road with roadside signs proclaiming worship or biblical phrases or threats, songs on the radio at my work constantly talking about Jesus and God all the fucking time and how belief in them automatically equals good, silently suggesting that otherwise is to be considered bad. Oh and let's not forget the scores of legislators constantly droning the words "god," "bible," and "Jesus Christ" in debates.
See, Fr0d0, with all this in mind, it's why so many openly atheistic individuals tend to be dicks; they have to compensate for the 100:1 ratio of in-your-face attitude that Christians have to atheists.
I've said it a thousand times and I suspect I'll say it a thousand times more before I will ever have to stop dragging the point up: When "houses of atheism" start cropping up and symbols of atheism are proudly on display all over the place and 99% of all the legislators in control over our lives are talking about how we need to insert more atheism into our schools and society, THEN the Christians can actually bitch, but until then, they can kindly drink a cup of shut the fuck up.
The problem is, as I have mentioned at least a thousand times now, is that while I don't shove my atheism in peoples' faces, religions are more than happy to shove their beliefs into mine, in dozens of forms; giant fucking crosses, huge buildings on the side of the road with roadside signs proclaiming worship or biblical phrases or threats, songs on the radio at my work constantly talking about Jesus and God all the fucking time and how belief in them automatically equals good, silently suggesting that otherwise is to be considered bad. Oh and let's not forget the scores of legislators constantly droning the words "god," "bible," and "Jesus Christ" in debates.
See, Fr0d0, with all this in mind, it's why so many openly atheistic individuals tend to be dicks; they have to compensate for the 100:1 ratio of in-your-face attitude that Christians have to atheists.
I've said it a thousand times and I suspect I'll say it a thousand times more before I will ever have to stop dragging the point up: When "houses of atheism" start cropping up and symbols of atheism are proudly on display all over the place and 99% of all the legislators in control over our lives are talking about how we need to insert more atheism into our schools and society, THEN the Christians can actually bitch, but until then, they can kindly drink a cup of shut the fuck up.
