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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The only thing more obnoxious than an evangelical religious observer is an evangelical atheist.[/quote]

Sure, why not:

evangelical christian: "You must believe in Jesus, otherwise you're going to Hell."

[b]evangelical atheist: "People should be allowed to believe what they want, but if you're going to try to make laws, you'd better have a damned rational reason."[/b]

Totally the same thing.

:roll:[/quote]

Um, no. Not even remotely the same thing. [b]An evangelical atheist runs around screaming, "THERE IS NO GOD" and telling people who believe there is one that they're stupid.[/b] That's just as bad, if not worse, than telling someone they'll go to hell.

What you describe is moral relativism. That's different.

Oh, and don't roll your eyes at me. What are you, 12?[/quote]

These people don't exist, other than in your own head.  I think you're confusing DCUM for real life. Here on DCUM, absolutely, if you start some thread about how the Christian God is super-duper awesome, you're probably going to get some people who enjoy debating this stuff. And when you start making irrational claims, you're going to get some pushback from rational people.

Finally, I think a lot of Christians (and people of other faiths) don't understand how insulting they're being when they trot out certain articles. For example, that you can't be "moral" without "God" or other claims. If you start making offensive claims on a public, anonymous forum, most likely you'll be met with insults.

Anyway, take God out of the equation, and people behave in just the same way. Could be god, could be suburbs/city, could be CIO/attachment.

(I do think it's a bit rich, though, that you think there's an equivalence between a) a devout believer who honestly believes in God and Hell, and who tells someone that they will be tortured for eternity for their crime of disbelief; and b) someone who honestly doesn't believe in Hell, and who doesn't believe there are any rational reasons to believe in God or Hell, telling you you're "stupid" for believing in them.  The latter is rude, but the former is frankly disgusting.)[/quote]

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