(October 24, 2013 at 10:02 pm)Polaris Wrote: Most atheists in the world are normal people just like most believers in the world are normal people. It's the extremes from both sides that give their fellows a bad rap.
I see many anti-theists as being too cowardly to admit humanity itself is the root of all evil.
Woe now,
I have met a couple of atheists that say "we need to end religion" implying force. I tell them that is impractical and no one will get a utopia.
BUT simply saying "that is not true" or "bullshit the Yankees did not win the Superbowl" or "suck it Jesus", or "Mohammed is a dick if you think he wants you to treat women like property", is merely being offensive, but hardly "militant".
Humanity is not either good or bad because evolution produces BOTH.
I see a lot of good in humanity, but I also see ignorance producing human concocted clubs called religion that distract our species from seeing our common condition.