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How exactly are atheists trying to force nonbelief on others?

Are we trying to make prayer illegal?

Are we trying to get currency to say there are no gods?

Are we trying to get the pledge of allegiance to advertise atheism?

Or is it merely that many atheists are pro-education, which anti-education folk equate with nonbelief?

( Inspired by http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=201005... )

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  • Atheists are just like everyone else, some are good, some are bad. Some atheists I know have good character, but all of the atheists I know think they are educated, but are actually quite ignorant about Religion themselves. They judge religion by the actions of its followers vs the texts of the religion. Its like saying that the constitution can be understood completely by the actions of George W Bush.

    I am Muslim, so I will only speak for my beliefs, but pro-education and pro-Islam go hand in hand. The more you learn about the universe through our extremely undeveloped scientific understandings, the more and more Islam makes sense.

    Not all atheists are good, but not all atheists are bad. As human beings, the greatest wars in history have been secular ones. Nationalism has lead to more death than religion, so humans killing each other would be improperly attributed to religion, and instead, is a part of our lower natures as human beings. Let me remind all of you that Hitler and Stain were atheists as well.

  • 1 decade ago

    lol, I just read her 'question'. What a doofus!

    Edit: aardbark, I dare you to name one atheist fundie who has ever killed in the name of, what, the leavemethehellalone God?

    Edit: Tryingtoliveahappierlife...it might help if you understood English. First, human is not hateful. Try 'rightfully angry'.

    2nd, he's not forcing beliefs at all. He's quoting another who said something stupid. I'm sure you still have no idea what he actually believes...

    Edit: Midwinter Spring, the only thing 'we' do when an undesired response is left (assuming it's just an anser that's not well thought out, the most we do is thumbs hem down...we do nothing to currency, laws or national pledges. Read the damn question!

  • Derek
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    1 decade ago

    Christians forced prayer in school, on currency and the pledge of allegiance. All of those existed before without christianity. They forced their religion on others and are upset that some don't want it. Anytime you don't appreciate them doing so they consider that christian oppression.

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  • 1 decade ago

    Atheists don't force nonbelief on others. Other religions try to force their beliefs on atheists.

    Some good examples:

    They want the belief of God to be taught in school (Um .. how is that NOT forcing religion on people?)

    They tell you you're going to rot in hell if you don't except Jesus. (.. okay?)

    And pretty much, they try to enforce days of prayer.

    And you know whats great about how i'm saying this? I'm not even an Atheist and I know that religious people do this.

    Everyone needs to just get over the fact that we believe in different things and that's what makes us human beings. Damn.

  • 1 decade ago

    If we answer a question with an undesired response by giving our honest opinions about Christianity, then we must be trying to force our beliefs on them.

    Notice how many times Christians have demanded to know why people of an opposing viewpoint are here asking and answering questions. Many of them would rather silence us than entertain for a minute that we could be right. Anything but accept that we can have a legitimate interest in religion and spirituality, which effects everyone's world.

  • No,

    but you wouldn't know it to hear how most religious apologists take the slightest offense to any valid criticism of their uber-fragile "faith", (how quaint you might say?)

    If I had half the religious convictions of theists, I'd hardly view non-belief as any threat seeing as though the majority of secular society bends over backward every waking moment to pander to, appease or capitulate to the sectarian terrorist demands of every possible convoluted religiously correct "order" coming down from the religious control freaks at every level of religiously correct slavery to subjective

    arrogance & institutionalized deception.

    Given all that, how can the denigrated, marginalized, irrationally loathed, despised and hated demographic of reality-centric people be any actual threat to these control freak religious absolutists?

    Well, the fact that religious absolutists are control freaks is a big hint as to why they feel threatened by anyone who refuses to bow down and enslave their mind to a human-created fantasy-world view of debasement and perpetual mind-numbing confusion.

    No thanks.

    Source(s): Juxtaposition
  • 1 decade ago

    Some atheists, I'm sorry to report, DO want to abolish religion.

    "Many of us saw religion as harmless nonsense. Beliefs might lack all supporting evidence but, we thought, if people needed a crutch for consolation, where's the harm? September 11th changed all that."

    - Richard Dawkins

    If you're trying to suggest that there are NO atheists who are bigoted, smallminded, or extremists, then it sounds like you have a really whitewashed view of that group. Most are not, of course, but none?

    I didn't really want to, but I'll go further than that. I believe that there are atheists who would promote this completely unreasonable view of their kind simply to make themselves look good and theists look bad. I've seen some of them around here, and frankly I'd be surprised if you hadn't.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    well the short answer is that you dont see any atheists going around commiting genocide and promoting hate of gay people

    long answer is that the religious system is bias and corrupted and it being around keeps the population thinking that magic dude in the clouds runs things or that a talking snake can be real. Religion is ignorant and very hateful to other religons

  • 1 decade ago

    The same way beliefs have killed many we at least are not killing anyone... just trying to avoid future mess-ups for us to suffer as well...

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    We are not. Atheists are probably the least harmful people on earth.

    The Christians are simply afraid we are correct about God and they are shiiting their pants because there will be no heaven to go to.

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