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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Even though we live in a secular democracy, our world is more prone to religious thinking than it is to secular thinking. In real-life small talk and in comments on message boards like this one, people often put things in a religious context, sometimes without realizing or intending it. For people who want to be more sensitive about this when in a non-religious setting, here are some comments to avoid: 
 
-	“What church do you go to?”

-	“I’ll pray for you.”

And a recent response on this  forum to a former Southern Baptist who became an atheist: 
 
-	“This is why crap religions piss me off. You shouldn’t be denied a relationship with the eternal energy.”

(pp either doesn’t know or doesn’t care that atheists don’t believe in an eternal energy and thus don’t think in terms of being denied it.)

-	“God bless you.”

(Even atheists will say “God bless you” after someone sneezes.  It’s automatic! They don’t realize they’ve said it until it’s out.  It’s not meant religiously even among religious people.  It’s just our way of acknowledging a sneeze.  Maybe we could get used to the European focus on health -- “Salud” or “Gesundheit.”)

Any other examples or ideas on how to handle it?  Hope to hear from both religious and non-religious people.
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You don't get to tell me how to live with my faith.

How to handle it?  Not be a bigot[/quote]

OK so no one gets to tell you how to deal with your faith, but you get to tell others how to deal with theirs.

You get to make religious statements to non-religious people, but they don't get to say what they believe to you.

That sounds very Christian to me.[/quote]

You don't have a belief to express.  But yes, biting back if a Christian says God bless or Muslim says inshaallah or whatever is obnoxious.  Just live your life without needing to be argumentative or nasty.  Live and let live[/quote]

I don't have a belief to express?  Says who?

How about this: you keep your beliefs to yourself and we'll have no problem at all.  But that's not what you want.  You want yours to be the only acceptable ones.  Sorry, no. At least not until you are successful in getting your theocracy to change the constitution.

So if you get to say your religious things, people with different beliefs get to say theirs.  Like the fact that there is insufficient evidence for what you believe and it is likely untrue.

/ps when people sneeze I say "salut" and it always works.[/quote]

Do you attempt to correct coworkers and bosses explaining how their religious practices offend you and are "untrue?"  just curious how that works[/quote]

The point.  You missed it.  By a mile.[/quote]

DP. OP (you?) asked how to handle religious language and the atheist’s post in question is quite aggressive, so there’s that. [/quote]

Umm it was in response to

[quote]You don't get to tell me how to live with my faith.

How to handle it? Not be a bigot[/quote]

Followed by

[quote]You don't have a belief to express. [/quote]

Still feel it was "quite aggressive"?  Which part?[/quote]

Umm, the part where you said pp’s belief was “largely untrue.”

Big difference between that confrontational slam of religion and “bless you.”[/quote]

Exactly my point.  You think one position is fine to express but the other is "aggressive".  That's hypocrisy, and that makes you a hypocrite. [/quote]

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