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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP here, I agree that evangelicals in the DC area get the eye rolling too. That is also wrong.
I like it when people say to atheists, "I don't care what you believe in, just as long as you believe in something" [/quote]

Kidding right?  I can't figure out what people mean when they say that -- something supernatural, no matter what it is?   Why is that better than looking to the natural world for answers.[/quote]

Yes. I was kidding about the second part. 
Not kidding that it is wrong to bash evangelicals. [/quote]

Eye rolling is a long way from bashing.  I don't think evangelicals or any religious group should automatically be the target of prejudice.  But I do think that opinions about evangelicals are more likely to be based on what some people who present themselves as evangelicals loudly and in some cases publicly say and do, [b]not on a societal prejudice against them.[/b][/quote]

or, as in the case with atheists, false statements are often made in a vacuum because the remarks are not rebutted by people because they prefer not  to draw attention to themselves.  For instance,  religious people have said things like "Atheists have no morals" with confidence -- because they've heard that at church perhaps, or just assumed it, because they think that morals come only from religion.

Or "Atheists are stupid (or arrogant) because they say there is no God, and there's no way they can know that."

Actually, atheists don't say that.  They say that they don't [i]believe[/i] in god or that there's a lack of evidence for God. They know very well that that you can't prove something that exists outside nature, whether it be the Judeo-Christian god or any other Gods from the past. [/quote]

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