Religion
In reply to the discussion: Americans Intuitively Judge Atheists as Immoral [View all]bravenak
(34,648 posts)Try asking not to have a cross put up on public land, or asking the religious to leave their ten commandments in their churches an not on our court houses and we get attacked by the religious.
We can't change the rigid thinking of people who believe in the supernatural. They have to do it themselves.
We atheist are doing our parts by being open about who we are and pointing out the inconsistancies of the thinking of biblically centered individuals. We point out immorallities in their moral documents to try to open their eyes, and it's working. People are less religious every time we do another census.
Now we need to get people to come out of the closet so that Americans can see that their cool nice neighbors and co citizens, good people who they like and admire, are atheists. It took me years to come out, i'm black, it's very complicated in my family, i still have some people who i haven't spoken to about it. Reverends and such.
I am interested in maybe in the future getting a group of like minded atheists together to do a call in show, an ask an atheist show or something to help the community grow and give christians and others a chance to ask us questions about ourselves that they may have on their minds. So that they know we wont eat their babies. I think that may be the best i can do for the christian community to help them.