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procon

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21. Why would anyone assume atheists wrote those comments?

Mon Sep 29, 2014, 06:12 PM

Sep 2014

Why not accuse the usual attention seeking opportunists and trolls that are common to all forums? To use the same confrontation title; "If Christians Want to Change Perceptions, They Need to Stop Acting Like This".

As an atheist for the past 60+ years, I am sure I'm repeating the commonly held view that most of us have no particular interest in what anyone chooses to believe or not to believe because it is irrelevant. The writer's uniformed opinion is deliberately inflammatory and only adds to the very real discrimination and prejudge that is unfairly heaped on atheists by those who need an easy scapegoat.

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If Atheists Want to Change Perceptions, They Need to Stop Acting Like This [View all] rug Sep 2014 OP

Not surprised. Wait Wut Sep 2014 #1

pffffffttt. .. Trajan Sep 2014 #2

The Internet - you will not find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy. [n/t] Maedhros Sep 2014 #3

OK - how does he know these people are atheists? rurallib Sep 2014 #4

"some of the comments about the story in secular Facebook groups I belong to" rug Sep 2014 #11

Which requires one accept the post at face value. AtheistCrusader Sep 2014 #17

This is the author's rebuke. rug Sep 2014 #18

Well, at least one other member clicked like within three hours. AtheistCrusader Sep 2014 #19

We have at least one poster okasha Sep 2014 #36

These assholes are idiots Politicalboi Sep 2014 #5

They don't seem like atheists I know. longship Sep 2014 #6

I can count on one hand the number of internet atheists who hear any semblance to an actual atheist. rug Sep 2014 #9

Because god doesn't kill people phil89 Sep 2014 #7

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The cartoon response phil89 Oct 2014 #39

hmm, "if blacks want to change perceptions, they need to stop acting like this" unblock Sep 2014 #10

Ok, post the sites where they're chortling over dead babies. rug Sep 2014 #12

huh? unblock Sep 2014 #16

1 out of every 5 people is an asshole. arcane1 Sep 2014 #13

Hmmm, 10 people have posted in this thread so far. rug Sep 2014 #14

Uh-oh! arcane1 Sep 2014 #15

Are you sure these are atheists or just run of the mill assholes? Arkansas Granny Sep 2014 #20

It's really not a binary question. rug Sep 2014 #22

Why would anyone assume atheists wrote those comments? procon Sep 2014 #21

Why would anyone assume anyone posting on an explicitly atheist site is not? rug Sep 2014 #23

Nothing on facebook is ever fabricated for any purpose. AtheistCrusader Sep 2014 #24

Inconceivable. rug Sep 2014 #25

I give it props for the 'trains run on time' joke being attributed to the correct country. AtheistCrusader Sep 2014 #27

I've seen worse right here. rug Sep 2014 #28

I've said worse here, about political foes. AtheistCrusader Sep 2014 #30

Seriously? procon Sep 2014 #26

Ah, so a genuine atheist would never type such things. rug Sep 2014 #29

As an atheist,I could give a rat's ass about perception of me being an atheist. A theist's djean111 Sep 2014 #31

To paraphrase my religious friends when confronted with the batshit nuttiness propagated proudly by aka-chmeee Sep 2014 #32

Many people here, there, and everywhere edgineered Sep 2014 #33

I've seen that shit right here on DU. cbayer Sep 2014 #34

I have heard the "God must have needed another angel"... 3catwoman3 Sep 2014 #35

You can blame Renaissance and Baroque painters for that one. okasha Sep 2014 #37

console, deride, or derogate? edgineered Sep 2014 #38