What is wrong with some Atheists?

Doesn't truth matter to you at all?

You've let that rampant radical relativism make a fool of you. In fact no matter how much your religion might insist otherwise, there is a such thing as "true" and "false", and the two _should_ be treated differently.

Best arguments in this string: Hey this is a question and answer forum and answering a question the best way you can is what it is about! Right on. Also the point that the division between Church and State is an illusion in this country is brought up here. For example, I can't have a son in the Boy Scouts while most of the political issues in this country are religious issues. Truth does not matter to someone who wants to believe that God has a special place for them and that they are soooo special that they can take what is not theirs from anyone who is "savage, different, heathen, pagan, or poor." The last one is especially contradictory since Jesus seems to have had a special place in his heart for the poor. Christians in this country only love a person before they are born or after they die. They let homeless people fend for themselves on the grounds that it must be "God's will", or that homeless veteran person's own fault. Care for those that you know are suffering right before your eyes and I will begin to see some Christ in Christianity.

Atheist here, that only answers to questions that ask for a point of view, from atheists, Or when a questions is directed at Atheists, or slandering and stereo typing them. Some of us Do not PUSH others onto our beliefs, just as some Christians do not. After all we are ALL people first and every person feels, acts, reacts and believes differently.

Anyone who blindly forces his or her beliefs on others with no consideration of opposing points of view is ignorant and intolerant. A belief or lack thereof in a supreme being is a personal choice. Calling a believer ignorant is just as wrong as calling a non-believer blasphemous.

Everyone should just leave everyone else alone when it comes to religion. Then, when the world ends, whoever was right all along will have the last laugh.

"No, because we are right, while religious people are wrong!" I am joking, but that is the stuff I hear from such people as my oldest sister. I do not say anything so strong, unless someone provokes me. My sister insults me outrageously for not sharing her dumb beliefs. I know some believers who are decent and intelligent people, but my sister and anyone like her give a bad name to any belief system they have. She is ignorant, so she attends a church where others are just as ignorant. She is jealous of me for my superiority in education and IQ.

Sharing our opinion in an open form community like this isn't "pushing". When religious folks try to siphon their religious dogma into secular law, the law that I and everyone else MUST obey, then yes, they ARE pushing their faith onto everyone. I haven't told anyone that they have to keep their opinions to themselves. By all means, shout from the rooftops or the street corners that you believe whatever you believe. Just don't drag it into the political arena. There, it is neither appropriate nor constitutional to do so (at least in the United States).

Good point. Even I am guilty of this when I have a run-in with a fundamentalist Christian, though I try not to let my anger consume me. It seems as though both groups are in between a rock and a hard place.

Words of Jesus:

Why do ye not understand my speech? even because ye cannot hear my word.

Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it. John 8:43-44

Unfortunately, this is why they behave the way they do.

Edit: cwstuff, oh, yes they do! Greed is a worldwide multicultural, multi-religious sin

Religious people are often labeled "ignorant" and "self-righteous", because so many of them are ignorant and self righteous, not because they are pushing their beliefs. There's nothing wrong with airing your beliefs, it's how you do it that matters.

By the way, god doesn't exist.

I don't do this in every day life or talk about it with strangers. This does seem to be the appropriate place for it though, so if you should like to try and convert us now: have at it!

There is a big difference between this website and real life. So how do you like it? How much more would you like it if we did such in real life like Christians do to us?