Quote:I don't think the level of intolerance in the UK is really anything like what I hear coming out of the US
I quite agree. We've got some real psychos over here. Most of them are running for president cause fuckin' 'god' told them to.
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Quote:I don't think the level of intolerance in the UK is really anything like what I hear coming out of the US I quite agree. We've got some real psychos over here. Most of them are running for president cause fuckin' 'god' told them to.
I spent four months doing a road trip in America last year, mostly through the Bible belt (Georgia, Tennessee, Alabama, Lousiana, Kansas, Texas) - I met more atheists and agnostics than I expected to, but plenty of very devout young Christians. I have a few of them on Facebook and they quite routinely invoke the name of God, post Bible verses and so on. I might start responding with some verses from Leviticus and Deuteronomy, see how that goes down.
A homeless guy in New Orleans came up to me and my friends as we were sat outside a coffee shop and his opening gambit was 'I'm a Christian. Could you spare some change for a Christian?'...every part of me wanted to respond 'I'm an atheist, fuck off'. But of course that would be rude, so I just said no.
You should have asked him if he'd accept some change from an atheist?
My guess is he would have. (July 24, 2011 at 2:18 pm)Minimalist Wrote: Why not do something useful with your life instead? I was about to ask the same, but if that's what you want to do, then you should do it (There's always plenty of time later to get re-educated if it doesn't work out ) Good luck and welcome! When I was young, there was a god with infinite power protecting me. Is there anyone else who felt that way? And was sure about it? but the first time I fell in love, I was thrown down - or maybe I broke free - and I bade farewell to God and became human. Now I don't have God's protection, and I walk on the ground without wings, but I don't regret this hardship. I want to live as a person. -Arina Tanemura
(July 24, 2011 at 3:46 pm)ElDinero Wrote: If I was going to write/teach on the subjects, it would be good to have a qualification that directly relates to it, no?To teach on a subject you'd think an understanding of it might be useful. Mind you a large number of teachrs I know are asked to teach subjects they know nothing about. We had an English person at our local High School with no interest in languages let alone Welsh taking 4 lessons a week. |
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