Reply #11: That's one of my great challenges

[supernova]

being at DU.

I've known plenty of people offline who were non-religious, or just not that into it at all. But we certainly had a live and let live attitude about it. This is the first time I've run into the "I really, really, really, REALLY hate religious people!" meme. Frankly that boggles my mind, because I don't hate anybody, most especially because of a specific philosophical bent. :shrug:

But I can certainly see that they feel this is one of the very few places to vent that they have. I had a very hard time convincing the R/T Forum for instance, that eventhough I live in the South, I don't know ANY fundamentalists. So there are shades of meaning that are lost there. I think TB is right in that some are too wrapped up in their own pain.

I just gave up trying to talk about it and create positive dialog at this time. Perhaps at some point in the future I will try again.

It's really a shame because we have much larger common goals that we need to be talking about and planning for:

- how do we create a society where everyone is accepted and appreciated for who they are, not for the degree to which they don the templates family and society want to overlay on top of them?
- How do we create a gov't that is more responsive to us?
- How do you get more nonvoters involved in the political process?
- etc., etc.