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The minister was even careful to use language like "what a spiritual person might call..." and "I think". I really don't see how anybody even half-way sincere could take offense at what somebody else is being extra careful to frame as their own views.[/quote]

I am more than half-way sincere and can see how someone could take offense.  I do take offense at immediate pp's put-down of previous pp's viewpoint.  There is room for much misunderstanding of religious viewpoints.  In the US, we have worked over the years to be understanding and accepting of people of other religions.  Now I think we could use some work at being more understanding and accepting of people of no religion.  We have always been around.  Now there are more of us and more are openly identifying as non-religious.  We tend to be upstanding and law-abiding citizens and even if we weren't, we deserve to be treated with the same respect as people who hold a god belief.[/quote]

Of course, and your desire for respect is completely understandable and valid. I too think atheists deserve more respect.

But[b] atheist pp is asserting that a religious person shouldnt say "I think..." and "religious people think..." because even telling you what they think is somehow offensive[/b]. On a thread claiming that organized religion is harmful and scripture is bs, no less.

If you want respect, you have to give respect. That goes for judgemental religious people and it goes for DCUM's atheists as well.[/quote]

I don't think atheist pp said that. Reading back, it was an interpretation someone made about atheist pp's reaction to the minister.

I do have a problem with the terminology "DCUM's atheists" - as if we are all alike and need to be chastised.  Imagine talking about "DCUM's African Americans" or "DCUM's gays" that way.[/quote]

The atheist is the one who put bold highlights over those two phrases. As if a believer even expressing what she "thinks" is offensive to this poor atheist's sensitive wars.

There's one atheist on DCUM who is a babyish a$$. That "don't tell me what you think" pp is probably her. Unfortunately, without usernames, her behavior has the potential to stain other atheists. I think most of us have her number, though, and write her off as a troll.[/quote]

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