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Originally Posted by Willravel
If I may, that means you're a theist, not agnostic. If you were agnostic, you would probably post something more like, "I don't know if God exists or not, but I don't believe in religion." Not to nitpick or anything, just for the sake of clarification.
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Technically correct, but as has been pointed out in different circumstances in this very post, you say tomatoe, I say tomawwto.
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Originally Posted by Willravel
I'm glad you're so open minded, but many religious people aren't this way. Just as I'm willing to admit that some of my fellow atheists can be militant (even I was militant once upon a time), you should bear in mind that many of your religious brothers and sisters bring a lot of hatred and bias to the table, especially toward atheists. Granted, it's rare to burn atheists at the stake nowadays, but being an atheist is still considered to be extremely taboo most places.
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Excellent point, and one I meant to include, but as I wrote I lost it in the moment. Absolutely there are religious people who are intolerant of anyone who doesn't believe their beliefs, and I would even go so far as to say that the number of intolerant religious types vastly outweighs the intolerant atheist types. I would like to take all of the above out behind the proverbial barn and teach them a thing or two about tolerance.