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He's a christian, but you'd never know it because unless you're at church it probably wouldn't come up. My experience with christianity isn't in the majority, but it is still authentic, so when i see all christians being lumped together it doesn't sit right with me and i have to say something. Thank you for your reasonable response.
The only reason i mentioned it was because you seem to lack the will to differentiate between different types of faith. You seem to think that all theists think the same exact things in the exact same ways. This is plainly wrong, and the fact that you claim a certain amount of exposure to theism and still seem to implicitly insist through your assertions that there is only one kind of faith doesn't make sense.
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Filtherton, I really respect what you said here. Definitely a lot more respect for you after reading this thread.
That said, I think everyone reading or participating in this discussion would benefit from replacing theism and christians in the above quote with atheism and atheists...
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He's an atheist, but you'd never know it because unless you asked because it probably wouldn't come up. My experience with atheism isn't in the majority, but it is still authentic, so when i see all atheists being lumped together it doesn't sit right with me and i have to say something. Thank you for your reasonable response.
The only reason i mentioned it was because you seem to lack the will to differentiate between different types of faith. You seem to think that all atheists think the same exact things in the exact same ways. This is plainly wrong, and the fact that you claim a certain amount of exposure to atheism and still seem to implicitly insist through your assertions that there is only one kind of faith doesn't make sense.
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