(January 20, 2018 at 8:24 am)Die Atheistin Wrote:(January 19, 2018 at 8:02 am)Catholic_Lady Wrote: You were obviously perturbed enough by your Christian teacher having a baby to have started a thread to bitch about it. Perhaps you should be more concerned for all the babies who will be born into broken homes, poverty, abuse, and drug addiction. At least this guy is married to the woman and has a stable job. No need to be dismayed by this pregnancy just because of the parents religious views. It would be like me sarcastically saying "Well hooray, these atheist people I know will be making another atheist..."
There's a word for that bull shit, and it's called bigotry.
Just because I made a thread about it it doesn't mean that I despise it beyond all limit. I'm not against them having kids, I'm against the indoctrination of children. Moderate religious indoctrination is better than being born in broken homes, povery and drug addiction, fundamentalist indoctrination not so much.
Yes I was sarcastic, so what? I used sarcasm to express my disagreement with this particular opinion, not with every single trait they have.
The definition of a bigot is a person who is intolerant towards those holding different opinions. I said that I don't agree with a certain opinion, not that the persons who have them are bad on every single level or that they shouldn't have the right to have the said opinion.
The only real biggot here is you. You are calling me a biggot for having a different opinion than you. You don't tolerate me for disagreeing with you. I think you can't find any better arguments, therefore you're attaking the person rather than the opinion itself. You're frustrated, you hate hearing arguments against you're doctrine, you're scared atheists might be right and/or become the majority. You're trying to convince people to follow your religion because of that, why else would you make an account on an atheist forum?
Parents are going to pass on to their children their own values and beliefs. And sometimes those values and beliefs will be different from your own. Deal with it. As long as there is no abuse going on in the process, it's really none of your concern or judgement. But maybe you'll loosen up a bit when you mature.
"Of course, everyone will claim they respect someone who tries to speak the truth, but in reality, this is a rare quality. Most respect those who speak truths they agree with, and their respect for the speaking only extends as far as their realm of personal agreement. It is less common, almost to the point of becoming a saintly virtue, that someone truly respects and loves the truth seeker, even when their conclusions differ wildly."
-walsh
-walsh
