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Thread #150086 Message #3498639
Posted By: Don(Wyziwyg)T
04-Apr-13 - 05:31 AM
Thread Name: BS: Are Atheists really Atheists or......
Subject: RE: BS: Are Atheists really Atheists or......
""I wonder whether this is another example of "the barrier of a common language"? In the UK, in everyday speech, to say someone is deluded does not automatically carry overtones of mental illness, merely that they hold beliefs which cannot be support by evidence, or which fly in the face of evidence.""
I've been called "deluded" for voting differently than other UK members, for supporting the "wrong" Formula One driver and a multitude of other things as well as for believing in a Deity.
I've also been called deluded (much more frequently) by members of evangelising churches, when I explain that neither God nor I need their help to communicate.
What it boils down to is somebody else's opinion, which he is entitled to express, and I am entitled to ignore.
It doesn't offend because it isn't important enough to affect me.
Dawkins too is entitled to his opinion and to the expression of same.
Even as a believer, I have a much greater problem with the aggressively religious.
Don T.