I'm sure as an Atheist you've had something like this happen.
You are talking to someone. Having a very good open conversation about nothing in particular. All of the sudden religion comes up. You state you are an Atheist. The person no longer wishes to talk/associate with you based on the fact that you're an Atheist.
or
You have a very good friend (we'll call him Mike). You and Mike have known each other for a couple years. You see each other weekly and watch your favorite sport together. Mike knows you're an Atheist and is perfectly fine with it. One day, Mike's girlfriend asks Mike to tell her about you. She hears you're an Atheist an immediately forbids Mike from being friends with you. You never talk to Mike again.
The reason I give these two examples is because I'm starting to notice a lot of people are prejudice assholes to Atheists. The same way some people do the same with gays or certain minorities (I'm not gay or a minority, but it pisses me off when people treat gays and minorities like they aren't humans). Maybe this is just because I'm starting to be more comfortable telling people I'm an Atheist and people are doing it to me. Maybe it's just because I'm older and have a better understanding of whats going on. But, it's starting to bother me a little bit.
Now I'm not saying everybody does it and I'm not asking why people do it. I'm asking of your thought on the subject?
You are talking to someone. Having a very good open conversation about nothing in particular. All of the sudden religion comes up. You state you are an Atheist. The person no longer wishes to talk/associate with you based on the fact that you're an Atheist.
or
You have a very good friend (we'll call him Mike). You and Mike have known each other for a couple years. You see each other weekly and watch your favorite sport together. Mike knows you're an Atheist and is perfectly fine with it. One day, Mike's girlfriend asks Mike to tell her about you. She hears you're an Atheist an immediately forbids Mike from being friends with you. You never talk to Mike again.
The reason I give these two examples is because I'm starting to notice a lot of people are prejudice assholes to Atheists. The same way some people do the same with gays or certain minorities (I'm not gay or a minority, but it pisses me off when people treat gays and minorities like they aren't humans). Maybe this is just because I'm starting to be more comfortable telling people I'm an Atheist and people are doing it to me. Maybe it's just because I'm older and have a better understanding of whats going on. But, it's starting to bother me a little bit.
Now I'm not saying everybody does it and I'm not asking why people do it. I'm asking of your thought on the subject?
CHRISTIANITY: The belief that some cosmic Jewish Zombie can make you live forever if you symbolically eat his flesh and telepathically tell him that you accept him as your master, so he can remove an evil force from your soul that is present in humanity because a rib-woman was convinced by a talking snake to eat from a magical tree.
Makes perfect sense.
Give a man a fish, and you'll feed him for a day; give him a religion, and he'll starve to death while praying for a fish.
Makes perfect sense.
Give a man a fish, and you'll feed him for a day; give him a religion, and he'll starve to death while praying for a fish.
