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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OMG - please learn how to reply and post properly, people. I have a headache trying to catch up.

I'm the PP who found the minister's posts to be condescending and presumptuous. Her whole post was written through the lens of someone raised in a very religious environment and who cannot understand what it is like to never have had religion. All of the talk of faith, deathbed, etc. is really off-base and out of place. "Returning to our Source", creation, faith, etc.

The minister should really just stick to what she knows instead of making false assumptions and generalizations about others. I don't make any blanket statements about what she believes or doesn't believe. If she were truly respectful, so would she. 
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Honestly this seems like a massive overreaction. I wonder if that's because the minister was so respectful, and that threatens you? She was so careful to use words like "I think" and "I believe" as others have oiint d out. She even writes things like. "An atheist would explain this with science" which you did not put in bold.

If you're the pp making statements about organized religion being harmful, scripture being nonsense stories, and so on, then I respectfully suggest that you are making blanket statements that are much broader and disrespectful than anything you accuse the minister of.

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I have posted on other threads (and maybe this one?) that I believe religion is net negative. I haven't posted much else on this thread. Sorry if you feel that is disrespectful but it's not a personal statement about you, an individual, and your beliefs. It's my observation (as an outsider) generally about religions over the course of mankind. The minister was making generalizations for all atheists/all people, as individuals and their experiences. And it was off-base for me. It's understandable because she grew up in a deeply religious family. All of her references tie back to religion/faith/etc. None of that works in my framework. Not just the terminology.

I get that she was trying to be polite about it, but she was still trying to connect dots that don't need to be connected for some people. Presuming that those dots NEED to be connected. And I did find her tone condescending - she wrote as if she had it all figured out, but clearly doesn't. Which is fine - none of us do. But don't write as if you do. 
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And I didn't write it but back on page 8, 13:30 captured a lot of my thoughts on this. 
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that was me -- happy to be of assistance.  [/quote]

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