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EvolveOrConvolve

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5. I think the sticking up for ourselves is what upsets so many

Reply to dimbear (Reply #4)

Fri Jul 6, 2012, 09:36 PM

Jul 2012

Believers are often used to NOT having their beliefs questioned, and many have a cozy cocoon of privilege in which they've wrapped their belief, safe from rational inquiry. Intruding on that cocoon can be (understandably) upsetting. Doesn't mean I'm going to stop sticking up for myself or other atheists.

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I'm trying Ringo. I'm trying real hard to be the shepherd. [View all] cleanhippie Jul 2012 OP

This seems to happen a lot when people are entrenched kdmorris Jul 2012 #1

We're living through a part of time when there are changes and upheavals going on. dimbear Jul 2012 #2

Great point, although I see it as the same struggle. cleanhippie Jul 2012 #3

For sure. dimbear Jul 2012 #4

I think the sticking up for ourselves is what upsets so many EvolveOrConvolve Jul 2012 #5

Or male priviledge, for that matter. Evoman Jul 2012 #9

I have to admit that I've been fairly shocked at how entrenched the Christian privilege is... eqfan592 Jul 2012 #11

They dislike individual atheist, and they expand that dislike to the whole group Evoman Jul 2012 #14

I am 44... awoke_in_2003 Jul 2012 #7

They do seem to be getting a "stronger stranglehold," as you say. eqfan592 Jul 2012 #10

I hope you are right... awoke_in_2003 Jul 2012 #13

I'm not going to hold your youth against you at all. dimbear Jul 2012 #15

"And we always eventually copy them, don't we?"... awoke_in_2003 Jul 2012 #16

I've found that being nice doesn't work EvolveOrConvolve Jul 2012 #6

You suprised they are full of shit? Evoman Jul 2012 #8

I'm thinking that an OP on the Eucharist is in order. Warren Stupidity Jul 2012 #12

The only common ground I have with fundies is what we'll both be buried under nt Taverner Jul 2012 #17