Hello,
I had a unusal experience lastnight when talking with a evolutionlist. He and I got into a conversation about religion and evolution wich I thought the evolution part was the most enlightening for me than religious discussion, thought I did learn something.The guy asked me if I believed in any spirits and gods and I told him does a bear shit in the woods? No, I lay claim to no god or religious organization, or support one. He asked me if atheist or people that didn't even believe in spirits were extremist, evil people? If we hurt people or did illegal acts. ( I wanted to tell him yes, I am going to come over and cook your liver for supper) But I explained to him we were normal people like christians but we just have no claim or have any ties to anything or most atheist donot, there are different types.
So here is my question.
1. Why is it that people sterotype atheist? Is it because we donot bow down to no god or reconize anything that the majorty of the population does? Because we are unique in our own way?
Anyways the odd part of the conversation was that he is a evolutionlist but he believes in spirits. Here is my next question.
2. I didnot think evolutionlist believed in spirits but that we have simply evolved wich he does believe but he believes in both. I just thought that was corky.
Poopie.
I had a unusal experience lastnight when talking with a evolutionlist. He and I got into a conversation about religion and evolution wich I thought the evolution part was the most enlightening for me than religious discussion, thought I did learn something.The guy asked me if I believed in any spirits and gods and I told him does a bear shit in the woods? No, I lay claim to no god or religious organization, or support one. He asked me if atheist or people that didn't even believe in spirits were extremist, evil people? If we hurt people or did illegal acts. ( I wanted to tell him yes, I am going to come over and cook your liver for supper) But I explained to him we were normal people like christians but we just have no claim or have any ties to anything or most atheist donot, there are different types.
So here is my question.
1. Why is it that people sterotype atheist? Is it because we donot bow down to no god or reconize anything that the majorty of the population does? Because we are unique in our own way?
Anyways the odd part of the conversation was that he is a evolutionlist but he believes in spirits. Here is my next question.
2. I didnot think evolutionlist believed in spirits but that we have simply evolved wich he does believe but he believes in both. I just thought that was corky.
Poopie.
"History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government. This marks the lowest grade of ignorance of which their civil as well as religious leaders will always avail themselves for their own purposes" Letter to von Humboldt, 1813
