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In reply to the discussion: Does there need to be an Atheist/Theist dialogue? [View all]Goblinmonger
(22,340 posts)As has been said by others, it is really just a mindset that it is OK to acknowledge that someone can wear the same label as you and still be a dick. de Botton is an atheist. I have no regard for anything he has written and think he is a sycophant, but he's an atheist just like me.
I know you and I have gone at it a lot, but you can't seriously think that I or any other atheist on here thinks you are the same as Phelps just because you both have the label Christian. Phelps is a worthless piece of shit. The world will be a better place when he is dead. You don't see the world the same way I do but I know you are a progressive and in the vast majority of issues we are the same. I can't think of a single thing Phelps and I would agree on. He's a Christian and a dick. That's OK. Call him a hypocrite and a dick. Just don't exclude him from the label of Christian because he doesn't share your interpretation of it.