Reply #245: didn't say I found it offensive...try not to project quite so much.

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somehow you seem to feel that saying you are an atheist is some type of magic term. That it means that you cant be intolerant or prejudiced or that you cant be guilty of disrespectful behavior..that somehow you are not held to the same levels of behavior as others.

You can say all you want that atheism is not a belief system, but that doesn't make it so. Your belief system is simply a disbelief in dieties and a belief in logic/science in their place. However it is still a belief system. Belief system does not automatically translate into *worship* system. Maybe that is what you are failing to grasp..belief system and worship are not necessarily the same thing...although the case could be made that some atheist do elevate science and logic to a type of deity that they worship.

If you have found your truth in atheism that is wonderful, however that does not give you the right to try and force your beliefs on others..afterall you don't want religious people to force their beliefs on you, now do you?