Religion
In reply to the discussion: To my fellow atheist, do you think believers just wrong? [View all]no_hypocrisy
(55,550 posts)Honestly, I don't think of the differences of our divergent thoughts. I take issue on actions based on those thoughts. Examples of religious (or pseudoreligious) individuals who want the right to pass out Bibles to gradeschool children on public school property, who want sectarian prayers before a vote whether to install sewers, who claim religious exemption from paying federal taxes although they promote public office candidates from their pulpit. It's what they do (or don't do) that I take issue, not whether Jesus rose from the dead three days after his assassination. Or whether God gave Israel to the Jews. Or whether each Muslim martyr gets 72 virgins upon death.
My specific belief system doesn't interfere with my personal life BTW. I'm involved with a Methodist and we have a running joke about life-after-death. If I'm right about death is the end-of-the-line, I lose the smugness of informing him that I was correct. OTOH, if he's right and there is life-after-death, he's going to run after me for eternity, intoning "I was right and you were wrong." Talk about Hell.