(May 4, 2013 at 4:05 pm)ChadWooters Wrote: You just have an atheist worldview that shares some but not all beliefs with another atheist worldview.
Atheism is not like Christianity, where under the threat of eternal torture we are forced to make it the centerpiece of everything we do, say, and think. Being stuck in such a dull mindset seems to make you think everyone else is, but that is not true. Atheism is merely one component of my worldview, and in most practical matters, an irrelevant one. I call myself an atheist only because I'm comfortably sure that there are no gods of which to run afoul. The reason I am vocal about my criticism of your religion is not because it opposes my atheism, but because it opposes basic human decency and would deny me the benefits of science, freedom of thought, and life itself, if it still had the power to do so.
