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SheilaT

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3. Does religion have to be anti-atheist?

Reply to rug (Original post)

Sun Aug 30, 2015, 11:29 AM

Aug 2015

Until such time as religions and religious people stop condemning those who do not believe as they do, or even just those who do not believe, I'll feel quite free to be anti-religion.

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A Point of View: Does atheism have to be anti-religious? [View all] rug Aug 2015 OP

Most atheists I 've run into aren't particularly evangelical. Erich Bloodaxe BSN Aug 2015 #1

I'd have no problem with the God-botherers xfundy Aug 2015 #2

Why? Igel Aug 2015 #5

Your point can be refuted with one name. Promethean Aug 2015 #10

Does religion have to be anti-atheist? SheilaT Aug 2015 #3

Religion requires evangillism Lordquinton Aug 2015 #7

I think religion is anti-atheist by definition. Arugula Latte Aug 2015 #9

Where is that? Cartoonist Aug 2015 #4

the omni attribute is simply a logical impossibility. At best gods are simply an abstract concept, Warren Stupidity Aug 2015 #16

someone's read their Ernst Bloch MisterP Aug 2015 #6

Back in the day, I use to watch Madalyn Murray O'Hair. safeinOhio Aug 2015 #8

It turns to anti-theism only when the individual allows that kernel of Leontius Aug 2015 #11

How does that reflect the inherent anti-atheism in religion? Lordquinton Aug 2015 #12

There is no inherent anti-athesim in religion. Leontius Aug 2015 #13

How is religion not anti-atheist by nature? Lordquinton Aug 2015 #14

The abrahamic religions explicitly exhort to evangelize for it. AtheistCrusader Aug 2015 #15

Of course it doesn't, as Gray proves by his description of the views of Giacomo Leopardi. - n/t Jim__ Aug 2015 #17

yes, no , maybe?? Angry Dragon Aug 2015 #18