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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]New poster. If we are to extrapolate from fifteen pages of comments from posters claiming to be atheists, their reasons for posting on DCUM (to address the actual question) would seem to be that most derive a sense of moral and intellectual superiority about their place in the world, and perhaps secondarily that it seems to assuage their sense of anxiety and insecurity that a Christian nationalist-fueled political movement has given them.

What they are unwilling or unable to accept or, perhaps, comprehend, is that only some people of faith have an interest in proselytizing. Only some people of faith have an interest in translating a set of practices that are nominally rooted in that faith on others. And that private revelation, which can form much of the experiential basis of belief for many people of faith, is not something that most wish to share.

The people of faith on this thread do not seem to be offended by atheism, for the most part.

Ironically, it is the atheists who seem to be the most ardent proselytizers. And that is why this subset of them posts on DCUM.[/quote]

It is interesting isn’t it? They tend to be way more sanctimonious, dogmatic and tiresome than the religious posters in this forum.

To be fair, Christian Nationalists who are using religion to justify an extreme and distinctly non-Christian agenda are far worse. We just do see them much on DCUM [/quote]

You’re just not getting it.  Being respectful of these beliefs has not only not worked, it has been a disaster for human rights. It has not worked.   I am tired of being respectful only to see the religious trample over the rights of others.  As some on the other side famously say, “F your feelings”.

If you support these myths being worthy of respect in our society you are just as much a part of the problem as the fundamentalists you pretend to dis-associate with.  You empower them.  Give up the mythology and join the modern world.  The world will be a much better place when you all do.[/quote]

Do you even know where and how the idea of secular society originated? [/quote]

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