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In reply to the discussion: The Atheists Conundrum [View all]Fumesucker
(45,851 posts)35. Why the need to tell me how to feel about things and how to act?
I don't think I've treated you with that level of disrespect.
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That was my first thought of a Reply. What on Earth does any of it matter, next to how we treat one
patrice
Jan 2013
#9
It's one of those things that once you become aware of it you can never quite completely ignore
Fumesucker
Jan 2013
#14
I understand atheism & its critique of religion & I agree with it to the extent of the limits inhere
patrice
Jan 2013
#19
Losers in the sense that if you are a thoughtful person it's hard not to be alienated
Fumesucker
Jan 2013
#7
k, I don't know which threads specifically you are referring to. The one's I saw usually began with
patrice
Jan 2013
#17
Nadine, cali and Will Pitt all found it necessary to pen OPs to dump on the atheists
Fumesucker
Jan 2013
#18
I'm sorry they were un-necessarily disrespectful. We're all like that, including me. & I'm not sure
patrice
Jan 2013
#20
It's not the mention of theism not be fact based, because it clearly is not fact based.
cbayer
Jan 2013
#42
I think most to all of us, even skeptics, view some imaginary things as real.
ZombieHorde
Jan 2013
#12
As a fellow Atheist, there is a third option, and it's not quite the dilemma you think it is...
Moonwalk
Jan 2013
#16
Well, perhaps you should stop supporting them, making it easier for them to get away with it.
mr blur
Jan 2013
#79
Is it your contention then that everyone should be bothered or not bothered by the same things?
Fumesucker
Jan 2013
#36
I'm not trying to wage a war, that's where you are entirely missing my point.
Fumesucker
Jan 2013
#40
You are generally a very positive poster, so I truly do not understand where you are coming
cbayer
Jan 2013
#41
There's some big chunks of American culture that I do not buy at all, that leave me feeling
Fumesucker
Jan 2013
#43
Every single word or metaphor I can think of to use to describe my feelings is offensive to theists
Fumesucker
Jan 2013
#58
You were called a troll by a fellow atheist who often shares your point of view in
cbayer
Jan 2013
#53
When atheists start having a worldview that exists outside of reality, you will have a point.
cleanhippie
Jan 2013
#50
It doesn't bother me that people believe in different things than I do. People believe in all sorts
robinlynne
Jan 2013
#51
Well that's not a psychosis. That's a personality, which may or may not represent a disorder.
cbayer
Jan 2013
#70
Personality doesn't refer to mental processes that affect the perception of reality
NoOneMan
Jan 2013
#71
I think that the answers you seek are held in fields other than psychiatry or even psychology.
cbayer
Jan 2013
#88
And that would be accurate too! Because it's atheists that believe dead people come back to life...
cleanhippie
Jan 2013
#102
So a republican who doesn't believe that Obama is a Kenyan Muslim is delusional?
Warren Stupidity
Jan 2013
#105