(May 4, 2013 at 3:50 pm)Darkstar Wrote:For the record the 'until we do" part is a bit dickish I do not see theists as the Enemy I see there dogma as the enemy and I treat indervidual people, intervidualy. Its only when they get to together in a group calling for people heads then they are the enemy, but inderviualy I will treat them like everybody else 'if your nice to, me I will be nice back'.(May 4, 2013 at 3:41 pm)ChadWooters Wrote: I find the OP highly amusing. On another thread I was surrounded by atheists screaming that atheism was only the lack of belief in deity and nothing more.. If those same folks show up and do not to condemn your OP it will reveal them to be total hypocrites.
Maybe some people agree with the OP. Maybe they don't. The real point of distinction is than no one is obliged to agree with the OP. Gooders1002 may see religion as an enemy, but this is in no way a requirement of atheism. While I personally dislike religion, I'm not sure if I would label it as an enemy. I might agree with the OP up until it says "But until we do, these people are still a part of that system and that makes them our enemy." That is, I realize that I am opposed to religion, but theists are just normal people like atheists, and should be treated as such.
I would be fine if the religious and the non could just get along. Some religion is benign, some is not. I would not consider most theists to be my enemy, it is only once you start treading on Westboro Baptist or "death to apostates" territory (i.e. vocal/violent extremists) that I would use such a term.
"Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful" - Edward Gibbon (Offen misattributed to Lucius Annaeus Seneca or Seneca the Younger) (Thanks to apophenia for the correction)
'I am driven by two main philosophies:
Know more about the world than I knew yesterday and lessen the suffering of others. You'd be surprised how far that gets you' - Neil deGrasse Tyson
"Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on or by imbeciles who really mean it." - Mark Twain
'I am driven by two main philosophies:
Know more about the world than I knew yesterday and lessen the suffering of others. You'd be surprised how far that gets you' - Neil deGrasse Tyson
"Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on or by imbeciles who really mean it." - Mark Twain