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In reply to the discussion: About respect [View all]LostOne4Ever
(9,288 posts)[font style="font-family:'Georgia','Baskerville Old Face','Helvetica',fantasy;" size=4 color=teal]that would be as offensive to non-believers as you possibly could and applied it to a subgroup of nonbelievers you do not like.
There is nothing to get fundamental about non-belief. But, a great many nontheists have been hurt by religion and dogmatic fundamentalist in particular.
Calling us things like fundamentalist, dogmatic, militant is meant to associate us to a system that has abused us and that you know very well we outright rejected. That is the whole point isn't?
If a subgroup of African Americans said something you dislike or disrespected you, does that give you a right to call them a racial epitaph? If a man had bad experiences with women in the past does that allow him the right to use misogynist language against them?
Lets replace non-believers from your post with African American and see how it sounds:[/font]
"Your assumption that my post related to all African Americans assumes they are all intolerant."
[font style="font-family:'Georgia','Baskerville Old Face','Helvetica',fantasy;" size=4 color=teal]Its the same as the "there are black people and then there are *******" argument I hear all the time in my part of Texas. That is not a get out of jail free card for them and its not one for you to call non-theists fundamentalists.[/font]
[font style="font-family:'Georgia','Baskerville Old Face','Helvetica',fantasy;" size=4 color=teal]Who here doesn't think someone doesn't have a right to believe differently? It is in the constitution. It is a fact of living in the USA.
Or do you mean right to believe differently without getting criticized for it? Sorry, but bad ideas deserve to get criticized. Religions which call homosexual abominations, tell women to submit to men, condone slavery, sentence nonbelievers and the effeminate to hell don't get a free pass.[/font]
[font style="font-family:'Georgia','Baskerville Old Face','Helvetica',fantasy;" size=4 color=teal]And who was being obnoxious to you in this thread enough to make you post your comments? You are the one who started this tangent. You are the one who had to go and post something that you knew many nonbelievers would find offensive and post it...in a thread about respect no less.[/font]
[font style="font-family:'Georgia','Baskerville Old Face','Helvetica',fantasy;" size=4 color=teal]Your post calling non-theist fundamentalist is proof of that.
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