(March 23, 2015 at 1:41 pm)Rhythm Wrote: @The question in the OP, not so different, imo, no. Why would anyone expect them be, we're talking about two groups of human beings who have a difference of opinion on a single line item...after all, aren't we?
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While I agree we're not that different, I wouldn't exactly say there's only a single point of disagreement. Belief in an interventionist god almost always has other beliefs attached.
It's those other beliefs - like the one that churches deserve tax-exempt status, that children need to be taught this nonsense in class, or that we don't need to worry about future too much, because Jeebus is gonna save us any minute now - that are the most annoying/frightening to a rational atheist like myself.
"The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one." - George Bernard Shaw
