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Comments

Re: A question, inspired by a thread from yesterday.

[(Anonymous)]

So... do you think maybe some atheists who were raised in this culture might be so "militant", for lack of a better word, about their atheism because of the sort of social conditioning they've experienced throughout their lives?

Not the AYRT in question, but I would certainly say that's a factor. Going from one extreme to another as a sort of "course correct" or something, and making their rebellion against what they'd been brought up to believe very apparent so as to make it abundantly clear they've distanced themselves from that upbringing.

And I would imagine some of the militant nature of some atheists is the result of their frustration at seeing other people they know continuing to buy into what they now see as BS. The whole thing of, "I wised up and broke away, why can't these people do the same?"

Re: A question, inspired by a thread from yesterday.

[(Anonymous)]

That doesn't really explain the particularly annoying brand of aetheism coming out of Britain though, where most people are nominally COE at best. Honestly. If you don't want to believe in God, that's cool. But stop being such wankers to those who do.

As for culturally Christian, in my corner of the SE, where Baptists and Southern Methodists predominate, Wednesday business closings seem to coincide with Fellowship night.

Re: A question, inspired by a thread from yesterday.

[(Anonymous)]

Ah, good point about Britain and the attitude on religion over there. I'm not from there, so I honestly don't know what would lead people to be particularly militant about their atheism in that case.

I do agree with you, though, that whatever one's reason for being an atheist, they shouldn't be disrespectful to those who do believe and are religious. Even if I can understand the motive behind some atheists' attitudes about religion on some level, you're still right that there's way better and less obnoxious ways for them to express it. Especially since all their arrogant, obnoxious remarks do is drive religious people to dig in their heels even more, and makes some of them feel like their assumptions about atheists have been confirmed. Catch more flies with honey, and all that.

Your thing about businesses closing reminds me that in one of the towns I lived in here in Iowa, schools never scheduled things on a certain night of the week because that was usually when people were at church. We're pretty Protestant-heavy up here-lots of Lutheran churches and such in my area. I went to a Lutheran church when I was a kid.