thinkinginpictures wrote:
Because my history of meeting atheists is that they are disgusting, in the sense that they don't talk nice. They are rude.
They are everything, but polite. You don't normally talk like this to people: "You *** idiot, everything you say is BS, and stop wasting my time etc. etc. etc."
90 % of the atheists I've met, are rude this way.
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Christians on the other hand, are way more polite and humble. So is my experience, at least.
It's not that I agree with the Christians, at all. It's just easier to have a conversation with someone, who don't call you a BS.
This depends on many factors, especially the communities where you encounter them. In my experience, in more rural areas this is quite the opposite (although atheists tend to be fewer). Even in urban areas, it depends more on the particular church that the religious person belongs to and those that the atheist chooses to associate with.
I will say that on college campuses, I have found very few atheists that I would not put solidly into the militant atheist camp, whereas in the particular rural area where I grew up, bigoted religious fundamentalism was the norm and the encouragement to insult and abuse those who do not share your faith was (and still is) commonplace (which included not only atheists and those of different religions, but Catholics, Jehovah's Witnesses, Seventh Day Adventists, and especially Mormons).
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"The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently" -Nietzsche
17 Jun 2014, 10:32 am
