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In reply to the discussion: I wish you wouldn't force your beliefs on me! [View all]skepticscott
(13,029 posts)6. You can't make someone "believe"
but you can indoctrinate your children (or even gullible and suggestible adults) into holding the same beliefs as you so thoroughly or from so young an age that the effect is the same. But the real point is that the alleged requirements of beliefs can also be imposed on others. Religious and other homophobes (aided by the apologists who tolerate and respect them) believe that same-sex marriage should be banned everywhere, for everyone, and for all time, and they have managed to impose that on society as a whole. Only slowly (and with endless resistance from religious conservatives) are those imposed restrictions being shed as the bigotry that they are.
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Good point. But it is the system which has been imposed on people, not the belief.
Starboard Tack
Sep 2012
#7
Do you consider those atheists, like myself, who embrace tolerant, liberal progressives of all faith
cleanhippie
Oct 2012
#102
When he says "some atheists", he is talking about you. He probably doesn't realize it yet...
cleanhippie
Oct 2012
#101
Science, the world, and reality itself have been forcing their beliefs on people for, like, ever
mindwalker_i
Sep 2012
#8
It appears that the term "belief" is broader than you would like to admit. If
humblebum
Sep 2012
#35
Uh oh, rexcat, humblebum got you. When he says "you have been proven wrong", it's over!
cleanhippie
Oct 2012
#55
Yes, of course we know that "religious belief" is the only kind of belief. Makes
humblebum
Oct 2012
#63
No, there can also be "belief in Santa, Unicorns, the Tooth Fairy and Lipstick Lesbians"
Oregonian
Oct 2012
#69
And the point being made is "Christians do not believe in separation of Church and State"
Fortinbras Armstrong
Oct 2012
#92
Or hateful, intolerant atheists. The violins are getting louder all the time. nt
humblebum
Sep 2012
#44
Yes we all agree calling strident atheists ideologues is hateful intolerance. Well maybe not all.
LARED
Sep 2012
#45
"Actually the framers thought the federal government establishing a religion was a very bad idea"
Oregonian
Oct 2012
#61
Where did I say that Jefferson was not a Founding Father? Answer: I never did.
humblebum
Oct 2012
#82
Well one might be tempted to think you're speaking about the Constitution when you are
humblebum
Oct 2012
#85
"Then one of your weaknesses is being a liar" and "Your position is absurd." - Nailed it!
cleanhippie
Oct 2012
#94