(December 31, 2016 at 5:01 am)Dragonspride1995 Wrote: Hello, By the title you should easily tell I don't belong here. I would like to make a request on the atheist community.
As non-religious folk, we welcome everyone, religious or not.
Quote:Within Christianity we have what we call testimonies and that is our story, of how we were converted, and what events in our life lead up to our conversion.
Please understand that many of us have come from religious backgrounds. We know all too well about the "testimonies" and other assorted brainwashings.
Quote:I would like to ask for negative experiences you guys have had with Christians. I'm toying around with writing a book on how Atheists are treated by Christians.
Good luck with the book, but I think you're going to miss out on the actual perspective of what atheism is because you're still biased for your religion. And that's okay. I just don't think you could accurately write a book without first removing your bias towards god.
Quote:I've thought about this problem for a long time. Organized religion has always had people within the Church who treat you guys, and well everyone else for that matter badly. I had a experience with it. There was a young women in our Church who believed/was (she was) Bi-sexual, she dressed in that kinda gothic look they go for. And one of the ladies in the church took out a handful of dimes threw them to her feet and called her a dime hore.
That wasn't your experience. That experience belonged to the young lady who was treated with ignorance by a so-called "christian". I certainly hope that you stood up for that young lady, since you could see that the other church member was doing something wrong, and helped out, rather than sit on the sidelines and watch. That's the problem with Christianity. People wanna pray about things - rather than actually get involved when they see someone being hurt or harmed by another. Prayer doesn't do shit except for make the person praying, feel better for thinking they did something.
What you could do, if this sort of thing bothers you that much, since you recognize there is a problem - be the voice in your religion that helps make the change for how your people treat those who don't believe the same as them.
Quote:And to be honest im not sure if I will follow through with the book. But if you are interested I would like to hear what you have to say.
Then why bother? Let me guess... this is going to be your one and only post in this forum. I'd tell you to introduce yourself in the introduction subforum, but you couldn't be arsed enough to actually read the rules, so I'll save my breath.
Disclaimer: I am only responsible for what I say, not what you choose to understand.
