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And I think there's more than a smattering of contempt for the vast majority of believers here as well. At least as an atheist, I think they're wrong, but sort of thoughtlessly buying into what they've been taught since childhood.

The "real believers" seem to have an even greater contempt for them--refusing to even admit they're "real" Christian.[/quote]

You can think someone is wrong without feeling contempt. Different people look at things differently and come to different conclusions. As long as someone's belief structure doesn't impose on you, and it helps them deal with life, why should that belief structure be contemptible? I think that's part of the problem with Dawkins and the new atheist movement - there's so much hostility and argument that believers MUST be wrong that it's almost as obnoxious as religious proselytizers attempting to convert others. (And at least the proselytizers have the argument that they believe they're saving the non-believers from an eternity of damnation. Atheists attempting to "convert" believers are, at best, just trying to allow people to sleep in on Sundays.)

I can't say with certainty that I'm correct that there's no God. I just don't have any faith that there is one - I don't believe, and for me to believe would require proof that, so far, God or whomever hasn't deigned to provide. To say with certainty that there isn't one, you have to be able to prove the negative. All we can say is that we've done a pretty good job explaining things without resorting to supernatural causes so far.

To view someone who sees things differently with contempt is probably a sin we should try to leave to the hard core believers.

(Note, I left out those who attempt to force their beliefs onto others via legislation or intimidation. Those people deserve contempt.)[/quote]

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