Survey: One in five Americans has no religion
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I would say that it involves forced or coerced participation in religious services (such as prayers) in public events, such as government meetings, school classes, etc.
Starting city council meetings with prayers, saying grace before a meal as part of an official event, etc etc.
That's forcing your religion on people.
"Saying grace before a meal"- maybe if the one saying grace is a guest at your house!
In all truthfulness I have found the religion peddlers sometimes persistent but never and I mean never obnoxious...
I have on the other hand often seen people rebuffing them in an obnoxious way....
I have also seen quite a few people in forums react negatively to a simple Merry Christmas but never seen in any way a similar reaction to Happy Halloween ...............
Actually you are right on the point of obnoxiousness going by the definition of the word. They are polite if nothing else. I just get annoyed at their repeated presence at my door. I think it is a little crass of a person however to think HE/SHE has answers no one else has.
I guess it depends on the individual atheist. Some just say they don't believe and let it go at that.
I've seen ignorant, judgemental, rude people from both sides..,.because both are made up of humans.
By the same token, believing in god doesn't make a person religious
Not all the non-religious folk. I don't bash anyone's religion. I point out holes in their philosophies and sometimes make fun of religious proponents arguments.
Not quite. With me it's pointing out that what they call "red" is actually not red.
(referring to the religious tendency to state things as fact when it isn't fact nor has any evidence suggesting it to be fact).For instance: gov't allowing schools to teach creationism or "intelligent design" in science classes. They are using taxpayers' dollars to teach the stuff.
It means you get right pissed off at them and they stand a good chance of getting throttled! :lol:
I have no problem with atheists, while I may not agree with them, they don't bother me.
Hey Cannuck- A little news flash for you. I don't really give a f**k whether you agree with my posts or not....I'll debate anytime but only an abject moron with an I.Q. of 4 or less, keeps mindlessly handing out "reds", so as far as I'm concerned you can take your "reds" and shove them where the sun don't shine.....................IDIOT!
If true......and who really knows.........I am not really surprised. Maybe they are fans of George Carlin. ;-)
i'm sure those figures are accurate, makes sense to me, but I do resent, as an atheist being called
religious, while at the same time, they say atheists have no religion, which is true.
we, as atheists do not fit into any religious group, we are not religious, so I guess atheism is
picking up all of the drop outs from religious groups, with exception to those who are agnostics,
they are just sitting on the fence, in their own mind, can't make a decision.
I guess the religious call atheism a religion because they know they are annoying them, must be, can't
imagine any other reason, the fact that many atheists 'debate' the authenticity of
god, doesn't make them religious, just people who don't believe in god.
religious, while at the same time, they say atheists have no religion, which is true.
we, as atheists do not fit into any religious group, we are not religious, so I guess atheism is
picking up all of the drop outs from religious groups, with exception to those who are agnostics,
they are just sitting on the fence, in their own mind, can't make a decision.
I guess the religious call atheism a religion because they know they are annoying them, must be, can't
imagine any other reason, the fact that many atheists 'debate' the authenticity of
god, doesn't make them religious, just people who don't believe in god.
Yet it seems to even a superficial view that nothing could be more absurd and more ominous than the radical presupposition that religion can be destroyed by a fiat of government. Had there been a clear understanding of what religion basically is, such an overweening presumption could never have taken form to betray otherwise well-meaning zealots. Trimmed of all abstruse verbiage the fundamental definition of religion is just man's psychological reaction to the universe of life, in which he finds himself. By psychological is meant intellectual and emotional, sensual and spiritual, the experiences of the psyche or conscious faculty in man. The whole reaction of man, the psychic being, to life is his religion. Intellectually, what a man thinks of life is his philosophy; but when the philosophic content of his thought works over into his emotional realm and becomes suffused with the emotions of loyalty, sacrifice, devotion and high allegiance, it is then his religion. Etymologically it is that influence which "bi nds" him "back" (Latin, re, back, and ligo, to bind.) to that which is most deeply fundamental in him, his deific self; a power or disposition which, am
THE ROOT OF ALL
RELIGION
by
ALVIN BOYD KUHN, Ph. D
(DB It seems we all have religion, it seems the only question is weather it is off the shelf or self made.But you can't have nun.
(DB It seems we all have religion, it seems the only question is weather it is off the shelf or self made.But you can't have nun.
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