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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Needlessly antagonizing.  I did not even clue in to that.

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believers are antagonized very easily, as in "how dare you question my completely unsubstantiated belief?  It's my right to belief things for which there are no evidence!"[/quote]

It [b]is[/b] their right to believe whatever they choose, just as it's your right not to believe in a deity. When someone goes out of their way to poke at your belief/non-belief, it's annoying.

When Jehovah's Witnesses or Mormons show up at your door (regardless of what you believe), or when someone pokes at your belief structure it's annoying, and under those circumstances you can launch with whatever arguments you choose, if you choose to engage.

Believers don't actually appreciate the constant societal drumbeat of organized religion that atheists are presented with, because it simply passes beneath conscious notice for them, but that doesn't mean that our pushing something back in their collective faces is the answer.

If the OP wanted to start a dialog, there were numerous ways to phrase it in an engaging way rather than just "Great quote about religion" followed by the text. If you want to get believers to think about/question this aspect of their belief structure, a bumper-sticker sound bite is unlikely to be the best way to do it.

So, either the OP genuinely wanted to start a dialog on the topic, but isn't sufficiently mature to understand why believers wouldn't react well to just having that sound bite thrown out there, or (and I think more likely) the OP saw this quote on an atheist site and decided to tweak the "illogical theists" with this awesome funny new idea he'd discovered.

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