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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I never get the weird obsession some people who identify as religious have with atheism. Why are there so many threads about atheists? It's so odd.[/quote]

I would imagine that they either take it very personally or are genuinely concerned for the afterlife of people who do not believe. I had a friend who really believed that people who did not believe in God (as she understood God) were going to an actual, real, physical hell. She did not want people she cared about to experience that kind of suffering. It wasn't smug, it wasn't dismissive. She treated it more like the concern I would feel for someone who was driving drunk or playing Russian Roulette, but without the outside chance of survival involved with those things.

Me, I don't believe, but it's not a big part of my life what other people believe. If the OP feels comforted by her Catholicism, I think that's great. If the OP is getting shit from her friends for her Catholicism, I think that's terrible, not because I think that Catholicism is great but because people who criticize religion for being too judgmental should know better than to judge.[/quote]

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