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Originally Posted by filtherton
I guess when it comes to atheism i just don't really understand what the deal is. I know that they don't believe in god, i just don't understand why they can't just leave it at that. I guess religious folk of a certain sort do the same thing. The whole "let's organize just like the religious folk" thing just screams insecurity to me. Then again, i've never really felt the need to proclaim or justify my belief system to complete strangers.
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When you're in a 10% minority and a significant portion of the other 90% actively engage in societally acceptable discrimination ranging from trying to tell you you're wrong all the way to believing that your contrary belief (or lack of belief) means that you're incapable of being anything but evil, you tend to want to speak out at those whose beliefs not only seem absurd, but cause them to hate you for thinking differently.
I guess the simple way to say it is that it's hard to keep your mouth shut when most of the world is against you.