They are they, they are the ones that base their decisions in irrational ways. I am the one pointing this out. I am not like that.
It seems you are exactly like that since you feel it is your duty to constantly point out the error of their ways. You seem like one of those 'superior' types who just has to go around telling people how wrong they are. You are filled with your own form of hate and distain.
It seems you are exactly like that since you feel it is your duty to constantly point out the error of their ways.
There is a difference between telling people that in your opinion X is happening and Y is the cause and telling people they are stupid, evil or delusional. The former is expressing your opinion the latter is a form of hate speech.
It seems that some atheists and non-Christians feel compelled to insult Christians. They claim they are doing it in the name of honesty but it seems to be done more in the name of disrespect.
I disagree with the views of atheists but I don't go out of my way to insult them. I realize their views are different from mine but I still try to treat them with respect. All I ask is the same respect in return.
It seems that some atheists and non-Christians feel compelled to insult Christians. They claim they are doing it in the name of honesty but it seems to be done more in the name of disrespect.
I disagree with the views of atheists but I don't go out of my way to insult them. I realize their views are different from mine but I still try to treat them with respect. All I ask is the same respect in return.
I disagree with the views of atheists but I don't go out of my way to insult them. I realize their views are different from mine but I still try to treat them with respect.
Do you think that your position and the positions of the atheists are of equal worth, equally valid?
I have confronted scientists and 'humanists' on occasions when I thought their smugness in relation to monotheists showed a lack of introspection. Here you have taken us to task for 'insulting' certain Christians. Have you taken Christians to task for the rage and blame they hurl as secular citizens, homosexuals, independent women, people who take child abuse seriously, the 60's hippies, Wiccans and so on?
Atheists hear this complaint a lot, sometimes justified but in practice mostly derived from two circumstances:till said:It seems that some atheists and non-Christians feel compelled to insult Christians.
I consider my position to be the more valid of the two.
I disagree with the views of atheists but I don't go out of my way to insult them. I realize their views are different from mine but I still try to treat them with respect. All I ask is the same respect in return.
That you even ask the question shows how little you respect my position and in turn, me.
Atheists hear this complaint a lot, sometimes justified but in practice mostly derived from two circumstances:
- - a remarkable ability of theists - some of them, present company excluded for lack of evidence - to find insult in almost any observation or criticism that crosses their particular dogma.
In particular, the habit theists have of claiming sincerity of some belief as adequate grounds for respect - not only of the believer, but also of the belief - in matters of physical and historical fact, keeps running them into insult from people who are simply observing that the belief is nonsense.
- - and the fact that theists do not live in a world of atheists talking freely, and are not accustomed to hearing their own beliefs described in the same language they use for others' beliefs, their own ideas treated equally with the ideas of others, their own status as theists not taken as recommendation for their character or actions. This loss of status, as when a prince gets a parking ticket, seems to strike them as intrinsically insulting.
So your average theist seems oblivious to the implications of, say, the common newspaper account of someone apprehended in wrongdoing bringing their theism into the courtroom as a factor to be considered in sentencing. Do you see how easily such a worldview could lead to taking insult ?
If you consider that your position and the positions of the atheists are not equally valid, how then can you rightfully ask that they be treated with the same respect?
You said earlier:
My, how little you respect me, to interpret my words this way!
greenberg, it is not a matter of what you say but of how you say it.
Do you think that your position and the positions of the atheists are of equal worth, equally valid?
*************It seems you are exactly like that since you feel it is your duty to constantly point out the error of their ways. You seem like one of those 'superior' types who just has to go around telling people how wrong they are. You are filled with your own form of hate and distain.
How often have Christians and other religious people been insulted on this board for their beliefs?
Atheists are not being asked to change their beliefs, to accept ours. They are being asked to not be so damned nasty and condescending when adressing Christians and others of faith.
Yes I have and I wll continue to do so. I have no truck with people on either side of the religious debate who either cannot or will not admit the humanity of those who believe differently than they do.