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Originally Posted by pan6467
No, Will you chose to take one sentence out of a different post and decided to attack my views.
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If you mean the "view" that atheism is a religion, then I'm not attacking, I'm disproving. There's a marked and important difference. Atheism absolutely is not a religion at all, in fact I'd say if there was an opposite to religion, atheism would be it.
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And I must change that, I can respect Atheists and their views. I just find I cannot accept the militant atheists view that he must put down someone else's beliefs. It's much like militant Christians, militant Muslims.... they claim they do it to better mankind to preach the word... (or in an Atheist's case to not preach...) but in the end they belittle, degrade and attack any who don't believe as they do.
That is what is fucking ironic.
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I don't know what religion you are. In what way am I putting down anyone's beliefs? By posting my beliefs am I putting down yours?
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You brought the discussion here Will.
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Because it was becoming a threadjack, sure. It was something very specifically about the nature of atheism, so I figured it belonged in a thread about atheism. I was trying to be nice to the other thread starter.
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You (among others) attacked one sentence and I asked to not threadjack so you brought the discussion here.
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It's not an attack. We're saying you're wrong and we're making arguments to support that. I don't know if you realize this, but it's deeply offensive to call atheism a religion to some atheists. I don't mention it because I was hoping that wasn't your intent. Just like it's not my intent to put down religions or religious people.
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Now, you're telling me that my wanting to respect someone's thread by not threadjacking it and offering to discuss my views in a different thread is unwelcome, or I should have expected an attack? You chose this thread, instead of making a new one. I even stated early one I never even visited this thread because it had held no interest for me.
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Find where it says unwelcome.
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So, Will now it sounds like someone I supposedly had a mutual respect for decided to ambush me and set me up.
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I have respect for you despite the melodrama of your last few posts, but that's hardly on point. The emotional dissection of the events leading to this isn't really relevant. You suddenly jumped off topic and started talking about atheist attacks or forcing atheism.