What do DU Atheists want of DU believers?

[Heddi]

71. Believe that all you want. Don't codify it into law, because there are other Christians who disagree

with you and who believe that God holds us responsible as a society and therefore we need to have strong laws against same-sex marriage and women wearing pants and men having long hair and women having jobs and taking birth control and having the right to abortion.

That's the problem with having religious-based laws. You and many others think that equal rights and access to birth control and abortion are well within the confines of the bible. Other christians don't. Who's right? There's no way to tell other than the great "well I agree with that part of the bible so it's right" or "I disagree with that part of the bible so it's wrong"

If you think that God wants you to be a good person and do good things and treat others with kindness and empathy and to hold up the social contract where all people get the best out of life...then super. Do it. I think I need to be a good person and do good things and treat others with kindness and empathy and hold up the social contract where all people get the best out of life because it's the right thing to do. Are my motivations better or worse than yours because I'm not doing these things for religious reasons?

Keep religion at home. Keep religion in church. Keep religion in private school. Keep it out of the government, out of public schools, out of my workplace, and out of my face.

And when Atheists/Agnostics/Other Non-Believers say these things, that doesn't mean we're anti-theists (the great slur of the DU Religion room). It means we don't want religious beliefs codified into law. We don't want religious beliefs taught as fact in school. We don't want to face religious harrassment at our places of employment.