(September 16, 2013 at 3:44 pm)CapnAwesome Wrote: A lot of 'Atheist's can't say this or you are like this' 'we aren't supposed to believe this' in your posts. It seems (from the limited information that I have) that you have the same double standard that Christians have towards the unreligious. That they are supposed to shut up. That the religious are the only ones allowed to publicly address their beliefs. I find that an offensive belief. One that would delegate me to a second class citizen. Whether or not my position is neutral doesn't mean that you somehow aren't allowed to vehemently express my other opinions regarding religion.
It's not really a double standard if we're the ones trying to sell, promote or proselytize a new religion for people to believe in. We don't have a duty to de-convert anyone to the wonders of atheism and it's not something that is for everyone. The human mind doesn't tend to deal that well with uncertainty and the unknown, people like to have something they can base their lives around with other people who believe the same thing. The problem is many atheists will tend turn atheism into something like this when it shouldn't really be. This is the kind of thing Dawkins, Harris and Dennett are doing and that's giving religious the wrong idea of what atheism is supposed to (not) be.
