I have a bumper sticker on my car that says "There's a sucker born again every minute". I bought it from the Freedom From Religion Foundation a while ago because I think the foundation is great and I wanted to help spread their word. I also plan on buying another bumper sticker from the foundation that has a picture of an angry dog bearing its teeth, and a sign next to it says "Beware of Dogma".
But now that I think more about it, it is not so much religious people per se that I oppose; it's the dogmatic fundamentalist ones that live their daily lives according to their bigoted religion's doctrinaire scriptures. This is precisely why I ask for your opinion, fellow atheists. With the former bumper sticker, I am starting to feel that I am being a bit gratuitously disrespectful. People who pray in their church and do not force their religion on others are decent people in my book. Just because I disagree with them does not necessarily mean I should defecate on them. Here is a good example of the dogmatic screwballs that I oppose:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XC0mus9252M
So what do you think? Should I buy the new bumper sticker and discard my current one, or both keep the current one and buy the new one?
But now that I think more about it, it is not so much religious people per se that I oppose; it's the dogmatic fundamentalist ones that live their daily lives according to their bigoted religion's doctrinaire scriptures. This is precisely why I ask for your opinion, fellow atheists. With the former bumper sticker, I am starting to feel that I am being a bit gratuitously disrespectful. People who pray in their church and do not force their religion on others are decent people in my book. Just because I disagree with them does not necessarily mean I should defecate on them. Here is a good example of the dogmatic screwballs that I oppose:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XC0mus9252M
So what do you think? Should I buy the new bumper sticker and discard my current one, or both keep the current one and buy the new one?
