To speak or not to speak?

[AtheistCreed]

Over and over, time and again I hear or read things from people that royally piss me off.

1.
Just the other day, I was getting off the ferry and overheard the two young men walking behind me badmouthing secular morality and that atheism was stupid. It took all of my energy not to spin around and take a stance in front of those men, but I was meeting someone and my son was with me. Not a good time to debate, but boy did I want to.

2.
I have a "friend" on Facebook who is an Eastern Orthodox Christian. He and I don't get along well, but he is an old high school friend so I don't delete him. However, he sure likes to praise the perfection of his faith and the stupidity of atheism. I debated him once on FB, and he went frantic. It was obvious that I was winning, and breaking him, but my sense of morals kicked in and I stopped the debate right then and there. I gave a hefty apology and promised never to debate him on Facebook again. I don't believe I have the right to de-convert anyone that doesn't want to.

3.
Just today, my FB friend put a link to some Orthodox blog that explains how stupid atheism is. I was so tempted to slap a link to a pro-atheist, anti-Christian essay I know of, but I just couldn't do it. I couldn't bring myself down to his level. I sure wanted to, but I had promised myself no more Facebook debates.

So, basically, I have told myself (using my "inferior" morals) to keep my debating to this forum. But god-be-damned, it sure is hard to stay calm and reasonable when I keep hearing and reading so much anti-atheist bullshit! I'd love to take down these haters, but I just don't think it's my place to. No one has the right to impose their beliefs upon another, IMO.

I wonder if the Christians will ever learn that?

Sometimes life sucks so bad you just want to explode (not Islamically).

But I sympathize with your frustrations.

Those people are just brainwashed and uneducated, the only way to fix their problem is to sit them down in elementary school with a good educational system and start over from the beginning. This, of course, would require at least 12 years of schooling, and who has time for all of that?

I suspect that the current model for society is intended to keep people religious and brainwashed, so that we will not run short of low wage workers, essentially slaves... It's quite unethical but that is how the powers want it. Until we have an alternative that is strong enough to gain momentum and overrun them, the big money will not allow the education systems to pop out a generation of free-thinking atheists.