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Not in the least. I have family members who are religious and whom I love and respect. The point is that those who have literalist religious beliefs are usually incapable of having a respectful, rational two-way dialogue about those beliefs. That's because they demand a special privilege for those beliefs that we don't expect or afford to any other type of belief. If you I say Orson Welles is the director who ever lived, and you counter that, no, it's actually Judd Aptow, I don't scream back at you that you're being insulting and disrespectful to my beliefs. If I claim the 1954 New York Giants were the greatest baseball team that ever took the field, and you tell me that's obviously not the case, I don't petulantly demand you concede I may be right. Or that there's no such thing as right or wrong, or whatever.

The problem is that for most religious folks, they hold their religious beliefs to be an unassailable truth. But unassailable truths are not something you should bring into honest, rational, adult debate if you don't want to be offended.

When atheists are offended, that offense is usually taken because of questions like "How will your children learn morals?" or "What stops you from murdering people?" Most religious posters on DCUM see nothing offensive whatsoever about such questions when asked of nonbelievers. [/quote]f

If you use words like "ridiculous" in conversation with them, how you can be surprised when they take offense. Even if you check your language IRL, I agree with the PP who said your initial post sort of oozes a dislike of religion. People pick this scorn up, they do. And then they get offended.

I see you're now moderating your language, to limit it to "literalists." But this is after you and maybe another PP have already called the rest of us creationists and climate change deniers. Frankly, I doubt you care, and insulting us may even have been the intent all along. I agree with the PP who said "angry, chips on shoulders." This thread demonstrates, yet again, that some of you atheists are just looking for a good, bloody fight.[/quote]

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