Actually atheists are mostly irrelevant in a theistic discussion. Its like discussing stamp collecting with someone who does not collect stamps. Stamp collectors don't argue with each other, they just have differences in opinion about their stamps. The irony is non-stamp collectors getting into a stamp collectors domain and arguing against stamp collecting. :shrug:
Its like discussing stamp collecting except people are killing each other over their stamp collections and get this - the stamps aren't even REAL!!!
They only exist in the imaginations of their collectors!!
What are you talking about? S.A.M. tells me my people are running the world and killing millions of people after nearly every post. She's also a theist.
Here's the theist/atheist line ups...in topics OF religion.
Jews generally don't argue with Christians.
Christians generally don't argue with Jews.
Muslims argue with Jews.
Jews attempt to avoid Muslims.
Christians tend to go half and half on arguing with Muslims.
Muslims 2/3 argue with Christians.
Jews don't argue with Atheists.
Christians sometimes argue with Atheists.
Muslims nearly always argue with Atheists.
1/2 atheists argue with everybody.
The other half generally doesn't care.
Results will vary.
"Jews attempt to avoid Muslims." ???
Which is why so many more Palestinian civilians are killed every year than Israeli civilians?
http://domino.un.org/unispal.nsf/0a...2/Body/0.7866!OpenElement&FieldElemFormat=jpg
But I guess that's only the recent past, it should improve now there's a fucking big wall up there right?
Besides, why risk dealing with the threat Iraq posed, or Iran poses, with the lives of people from your own religion?
When you can be a "neo-conservative" and fool your administration's morally and intellectually deficient president and his greedy oil and military friends into lying about non-existent weapons of mass destruction for you, so they fool a careless congress and a fearful public into bankrupting the economy on an illegal war. Get the American's and the Allies and their soldiers to do your dirty work!
Why "deal with" Iran's nuclear program/threat yourself, when you can get the U.S. to do it, right? To do your dirty work for you?
Some of them are starting to realise....
And you wonder why there's criticism? You can blame anyone you choose, and label it with any term you want, but I'm afraid that will only make things worse.