(June 7, 2014 at 1:30 pm)mickiel Wrote:(June 7, 2014 at 1:25 pm)One Above All Wrote: Not possible. Even though some atheists are religious (Buddhists, for example), most religious people are theists, like you. If both were declining, it would mean that the entire human population was dying off.
Atheists come in all shapes and sizes, backgrounds, sexualities, skin colors, and so on.
Theists are... a little more restrictive. You have to be what they tell you to be. You have to follow the same insane rules as they do. You have to pray at certain times of the day for random things, eat only specific things or nothing at all (usually during the course of a day), deny everything science has proven, since it also disproves your religion (except when it might save your life, like antibiotics, or make your life easier, like electricity and cars), et cetera.
Well I could not be atheist or religious, both are unattractive to me; just not for me. I don't think one is any better or worse than the other; just different sides of the same coin.
No "atheist" is not the opposite side of the "religion" coin. What is unattractive to you is the thought of being wrong.
Atheists are not a sub species nor are we above any human behavior, good or bad.
What you are attempting to do is paint all claims as being equal which they are not then you get frustrated when we don't simply roll over and say "isnt that pretty".
Atheists like others have said here, come in all sorts of shapes and sizes, we come from different education levels and have even different economic views. The only thing we have in common is the "off" position on the issue of god claims.
Do not confuse "bullshit" or "that is not true" with "militant", and some atheists pull that bullshit argument on atheists as well.
"Militant" is when you pass laws that oppress other humans. "Militant" is when you get violent because someone offended you.
You don't like religion as an organized entity, GREAT, neither do we. But that does not make us equal to religion because you don't like the thought of a god not existing.
