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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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]

This is wrong. See the following recent news headlines why it matters. Its the theists trying to indoctrinate:

https://www.oklahoman.com/story/news/education/2024/11/14/ryan-walters-says-more-than-500-bibles-were-purchased-for-oklahoma-schools/76310395007/
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/18/us/texas-bible-school-curriculum.html
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Respond to these two examples[/quote]

They won’t respond because they know they are full of crap. 
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and/or they might not like taking orders from strangers on the Internet -- I wouldn't[/quote]

They make BS claims they can’t backup. 
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True, but Still,  they might not like taking orders from strangers on the Internet.[/quote]

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