BS: 'Militant Atheism' is a propaganda term

Subject: RE: BS: Strident atheism not a religion
From: GUEST,Guest from sanity
Date: 15 May 13 - 12:17 PM

Strident atheism not a religion ...but strident stupidity is!!

GfS

Subject: RE: BS: Strident atheism not a religion
From: GUEST,pete from seven stars link
Date: 15 May 13 - 12:13 PM

amen!

Subject: RE: BS: Strident atheism not a religion
From: olddude
Date: 15 May 13 - 11:39 AM

and I won't talk about my religious beliefs if you don't talk about yours

Subject: RE: BS: Strident atheism not a religion
From: olddude
Date: 15 May 13 - 11:38 AM

Whatever, haven't we had enough of this shit lately .. but it is your right to keep the threads coming if you so wish ... But I bet I speak for more than a few when I say ... There is enough shit on mudcat and we don't need anymore shit flinging

Subject: RE: BS: Strident atheism not a religion
From: Mrrzy
Date: 15 May 13 - 11:32 AM

All I ask politicians is that when they refer to "people of all faiths" they add the 2 little words "and none." Blair did that after 9-11, Obama did it in his 1st inaugural address. Rarely heard since then.

Subject: BS: Strident atheism not a religion
From: Stringsinger
Date: 15 May 13 - 10:24 AM

One of the reasons that atheism has become strident in recent times is that today there are people who are religious bullies that show no tolerance for an atheist point of view. The evidence for this is the insulting idea that atheism or what I would prefer to call it, non-belief or FreeThought is uniform and somehow has a bible or doctrine. This attitude has no respect for non-belief and as a result deserves no respect in turn for those ideas that promulgate such bigoted opinions.


We can get along if an honest respect is shown for differing points of view without an attempt to mind-rape non-believers into forcing them into some kind of religion which not only doesn't make sense but insults their intelligence.


Ideas, religious or political need to be expressed in a rational non-rage-aholic way and condemnations by inflammatory threads to attack non-believers serves to shut down legitimate discourse.


Mudcat is not a religious or atheistic forum but a genuine attempt to share honest ideas even if we all don't agree.

Thanks, Joe, for offering a forum for honest opinions in an environment today where people in power attempt to suppress ideas that they don't like.