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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So...whenever religious people talk amongst ourselves about stuff like this, I have literally never heard anyone put down atheists or even reference atheists at all.. Not even, "at least I'll feel smug that I wasn't an atheist!" No religious person talks like that, unless they are a cartoon on TV or an actual fanatic. Most people who are believers (and also not fanatic Christian evangelists, which most of us aren't) are happy to just let atheists do their thing and never bring it up.

So when atheists are doing the offhand-condescension move, like, "well I wish I could be dumb enough to believe in god, what a pity I'm not dumb," with the obvious implication that anyone who differs in opinion is dumb, I [i]kinda[/i] lose respect for you guys. And I don't see a big difference between you and the evangelists. Just saying.[/quote]

I honestly can't find a single post above that did that.[/quote]

There was a post from someone who said that he wished he was dumber so he could believe in God and heaven.  I'm not dumb and I believe in God.  I found it very offensive.[/quote]

People who lack understanding about others' beliefs or lack of beliefs can be offensive sometimes.  It happes to atheists all the time, and not even anonymously on line.  Religious people often think it's okay to tell atheists to their face that they are immoral people who are going to burn in hell eternally for not believing in an invisible god and in ancient stories that seem unbelievable to them.[/quote]

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