RE: Question for Atheists
March 25, 2015 at 12:43 pm
(This post was last modified: March 25, 2015 at 12:45 pm by FatAndFaithless.)
Oof..so much wrong with that. Not least of which is that its rather presumptuous to imply that Christians in general put "country" in their pantheon of top 3 most important things to them.
"Atheists" don't have a common set of anything besides 'not believing in god'. It's irritating to see theists treat 'atheism' as some sort of club or just another religious group that has a common set of doctrines, values, and ideas. We don't. We're individuals that often hold different and conflciting beliefs, and we discuss and debate them.
Instead of asking what "Atheists" think is important, you could try asking an atheist to see what he or she holds as important.
I'm not sure if you did it intentionally or not, but implying that Science somehow assumes the slot of "God" for atheists is another tired and aggrivating trope from theists.
That being said, if I had to choose a 'top 3', it would be family, skepticism, debate.
You have several implications in your post that we've seen other theists make explicitly about atheists, though I won't be so cynical to assert you're making them equally as explicitly.
"Atheists" don't have a common set of anything besides 'not believing in god'. It's irritating to see theists treat 'atheism' as some sort of club or just another religious group that has a common set of doctrines, values, and ideas. We don't. We're individuals that often hold different and conflciting beliefs, and we discuss and debate them.
Instead of asking what "Atheists" think is important, you could try asking an atheist to see what he or she holds as important.
I'm not sure if you did it intentionally or not, but implying that Science somehow assumes the slot of "God" for atheists is another tired and aggrivating trope from theists.
That being said, if I had to choose a 'top 3', it would be family, skepticism, debate.
You have several implications in your post that we've seen other theists make explicitly about atheists, though I won't be so cynical to assert you're making them equally as explicitly.
In every country and every age, the priest had been hostile to Liberty.
- Thomas Jefferson
- Thomas Jefferson
