(February 15, 2015 at 2:42 pm)coolfunkDJ Wrote: So I have been talking to an agnostic friend recently and he had a point and Id like to see your points of views on it!
So if you don't know recently a supposedly anti thiest went out onto the street and shot up 3 muslims because he thought they were wrong, Now heres the question, with the shootings in Paris which was caused by a bunch of militant muslims, a bunch of people blamed Islam and there teachings on it!
But is that wrong? Considering an anti thiest shot 3 muslims, no matter how much anti-thiests hate religion, I highly doubt a lot of you want to kill people who believe in it! so should we stop summing up religious based shooting with religion? What do you think?
Link to the article: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/...38126.html
NO,
I am an "anti theist" as well. Just like I am an "anti flat earther". I see no problem with going after absurd claims. I do not see any value in viewing the world with a kaleidoscope when we have telescopes. Now that is not about human rights, that is about claims and ideas.
I do not put atheists from the same group think as theists. There is a future that atheists don't think about. Our minority status now has us closer to empathy so we are more sensitive to others. But that is current. Power shifts over time, and the current atheists alive today wont be around. We too form groups, and we can also falsely view the word "atheist" as a moral code.
Our species evolution is where our behavior comes from, our labels are not patent holders of our species morality.
I do not want to see the word "atheist" to ever get turned into a religion, which it is not right now. I do not want it to be treated as a moral code. I do not want it to be treated as a loyalty oath.
I will say currently, the reaction of atheists has been swift and unified in condemning Hicks, no matter what his inspiration was. Ultimately humans really need to see the individual first and the label last.
