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Who does more to promote atheism?

Atheists who do good things in their community?

or

Fundamentalist Christians who actively preach the hatred, intolerance, and bigotry that is their religion?

Update:

@supernovamike11 - What exactly did I say in my question that could possibly be construed as "hypocritical"? It's a demonstrable fact that there are atheists who do good in their community and that Fundamentalist Christians, by the very nature of their fundamentalism, preach hatred, intolerance, and bigotry of anyone who is not like them. If you think pointing out facts is hypocritical, then you need to re-evaluate your life that is based on lies.

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  • 9 years ago
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    I'd say the "arguments" of the theists as well as their respective holy books. They're almost shooting themselves in the foot and ensuring that no one with critical thinking skills is even capable of believing the crap they spew.

  • 9 years ago

    Probably Christians who don't live their faith or who preach off-the-wall concepts, or people who claim to be Christian but don't know what it really means. These are the people that turn others off to mainstream Christianity in general. It gives us all a bad name.

  • punch
    Lv 7
    9 years ago

    Fundamentalist Christians for sure. Keep it up guys!

  • Anonymous
    9 years ago

    Christians really waste a lot of time pissing people off about beliefs when they could collect money for Cancer research or something

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  • 9 years ago

    Religious intolerance in general is the best way to generate distaste for organized religion.

  • Athena
    Lv 5
    9 years ago

    Since so many atheists are in the closet, I would have to go with answer number two.

  • 9 years ago

    Well, who does more to discredit atheism?

    Christians who live their religion and teach others about coming to Christ and receiving blessings

    or

    The kind of hypocritical atheists that spend their time on Yahoo! Answers ridiculing people's beliefs without taking a moment to try and understand them

    Sorry for your flawed outlook, friend. There are bad apples in every bunch, and a bigoted atheist can do as much (or more) to strengthen a good Christian's faith than than a hypocritical "Christian" can do to put people off.

    I thank you and all those like you for strengthening my understanding and belief in the workings of God. ;)

  • Anonymous
    9 years ago

    It is a two-pronged approach.

    I put the fundies up to it, because they help the atheist cause.

  • 9 years ago

    Fundamentalist anything, rather

  • Anonymous
    9 years ago

    The nutters with the cults, for sure.

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