(July 12, 2015 at 5:01 pm)Dystopia Wrote:(July 11, 2015 at 10:52 pm)Pyrrho Wrote: I am an anti-theist. Religion has impeded science and progress. Religion promotes irrationality. Religion is in back of the hatred against gays and all sorts of other such things. Religion is evil.
Not to sound too invasive of your privacy - But do you think being an American atheist makes one more likely to be anti-theist as a result of religious influence in society?
Yes.
(July 12, 2015 at 5:01 pm)Dystopia Wrote: Living in a place where most people don't get asked what they believe, I've encountered many atheists with similar and different views on many subjects, but I rarely spot an anti-theist - Most people just don't care, they may be interested in an intellectual debate about the existence of god but aside from that "live and let live" suits most of us.
I still think religion is bad even so, but I would likely be less strong in my hatred for religion if I had lived all my life in one of most of the countries of Europe. Or, to be more exact (since it is impossible to know what I would think if I were raised in a dramatically different environment), I did not like religion in Europe when I was there, but it seemed less obnoxious than it often is here.
I really did not want to come home when my time was up, and I tried to think of how I could stay. But I had no money, and I was not going to try living on the streets or any such crazy thing like that.
If you Europeans had a heart, maybe you would start an adopt an American program, in which you rescue Americans from the fate of having to return to America!
"A wise man ... proportions his belief to the evidence."
— David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Section X, Part I.
