Mrkim Wrote:
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> Uh dude, you have fallen into the same mistaken
> ideology most everyone believing in some religon
> believes about athiests in that you feel we
> believe in something when most of us believe in
> nothing in the form of a higher power at all!
>
> Often times "people of faith" feel that because
> one believes there is no god, then those people
> must by some strange thought process align
> themselves with something anti-religous with the
> common association being made to something like
> demonic worship.
>
> This is absolutely illogical when we typically
> state a belief in NO religon, not that we align
> ourselves with an anti-religous demogogary by
> defualt but that we just don't believe in ANY
> religon.
>
> This of course leads most "people of faith" to put
> athiests into a category which makes us the least
> trusted (and most misunderstood) segment of people
> on the planet. We are typically treated with
> disdain, disgust and viewed as untrustworthy by
> people of all religons simply because we are not
> accepting of their seemingly illogical
> theocrasies.
>
> As is normal in the world, free thinking is not
> really deemed acceptable if one chooses to go
> against the more common philosophies, and most
> especially when such philosophies are related to
> religon
>
>

It is hard to explain but I agree with MrKim. By not having a belief most people who do assume you to have an opposing stance when in fact it is not even a rejection at all, just that one does not partake. To believe in scientific theory (the universe), that neither good nor evil are inherent but that of course kindness should prevail and that we are just a form of life on a planet in space does not make a person dangerous. I just happen to be here, trying not to kill anything. Contributing when the opportunity arises.