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>People have an absolute right to be religious if they want to ... But they shouldn't expect to be respected for it ... Indeed, they should expect the opposite:
by Clubber 10y ago
>People have an absolute right to be religious if they want to ... But they shouldn't expect to be respected for it ... Indeed, they should expect the opposite: to be mocked and laughed at.
Many people find religion for many different reasons. To categorize them all as people to be mocked is equally doltish but the opposite to religious people telling everyone they are going to hell (for whatever thing they don't like). Your statement is an equal but opposite reaction to that which you loath. No one likes a rabid conservative, no one likes a rabid liberal. Rabid is rabid regardless of what comes out of their mouth.
>idea of "free speech" has been intrumentalized by a lot of people to shield themselves and the absurd views they hold
I think you are practicing what you are preaching.
- BlackFly 10y agoYour contention is simply false as you misunderstand the point. Atheists expect to be mocked and laughed at by the religious. The point is that religious people should expect to be mocked and accept that fact. They should not argue that it is improper and that religion somehow implicitly deserves reverence.
- bambax 10y agoExactly.
- Clubber 10y agoPerhaps I did. When someone mentions religious people and anti-vaxxers in the same thought as people who expect to be mocked, it's difficult to not see some underlying scorn for religious people in there. Also, religious people have been mocked, enslaved, imprisoned, tortured and killed en masse for what? 6000 years now?
- drewbug01 10y ago> Also, religious people have been mocked, enslaved, imprisoned, tortured and killed en masse for what? 6000 years now? Frequently (though of course, not always) by other religious people. I don't think that argument holds a lot of weight.
- fdsak 10y agoDon't you think those "other religious people" may have used religion as pretext to achieve whatever they desired. E.g currently "democratic" societies act the same way to spread "democracy" through all means and at all costs.
- Clubber 10y agoThe two recent genicides that I can think of: Germany and Serbia weren't done by religious people. Do you have any examples of genocide in the name of religion? Crusades maybe.
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