TexLaProgressive
TexLaProgressive's JournalI would like to request prayers for my wife.
This afternoon we are to the hospital for some doctor order test, a sonogram of her gall bladder and her carotid arteries. My prayer is that both are negative as we have yet to find out why she was dangerously anemic. She had to receive 2 units of blood. So my brothers and sisters your prayers will be most appreciated.
And thanks to our host elect hrmjustin for letting me know this group even existed. I will keep all of you in my prayers as well as the whole DU community.
10 Things I wish the Atheists at DU knew about Theists at DU (at least this one)
1. We are firmly in favor of the separation of church and state. It is one of the basic protections for all of us.
2. We believe that it is acceptable to share beliefs and non-beiefs respectfully on DU and elsewhere.
3. Some of us find Satanic and flying spaghetti displays humorous.
4. A few of us were once agnostics or atheists and have since become theists.
5. There are far more progressive theists then you realize. Just as the extremely vocal atheist drowned out the ones who are live and let live, so too, are we drowned out by the screaming RWRNJs (right wing religious nut jobs).
6. This theist is not interested in proselytizing or being proselytized.
7. Theism is not is not a conservative phenomenon; there are politically liberal theists libertarian theists, and other theists who could not reasonable be described as liberal.
8. Theists are not universally homophobic, racists or generally hate filled humans.
9. There are good and bad theists just as there are good and bad atheists. This is the human condition. People have been killed in the name of god and in the name of a godless state. To argue that either as the basis of morality is disingenuous at best.
10. Most theists are not interested in denying free speech as it is a fundamental right and protection of all. That said it would be helpful to all if the discussions did not devolve into logical fallacies.
Taken all together I wish that atheists and theists at DU would stop seeing each other as enemies but rather, as people of differing opinions who happen to be fundamentally linked by other perhaps more important things.
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