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Originally Posted by Azure
I also find that it only serves as an advertising outlet for atheists and agnostics that want to force their opinion on the rest of us.
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I've just reread every post in this thread, and have not seen a single post from an atheist/agnostic that tries to force anyone to become atheist or agnostic. A few posts that question the inerrancy of the bible, and a couple that point out that a major Christian theologian held beliefs that most consider repulsive. A few dismissive points about Scientology.
More than a few people have tried to make the argument that Darwinism leads to fascism. Many more posts have been rebutting that simplistic and absurd notion. The Holocaust happened for many complex reasons - blaming it on one cause (whether Darwin or Martin Luther) does history a disservice.
Personally, for a long time I believed in a God that set everything in motion, but was not involved in the day to day operations of things here. I guess I was a deist. I eventually stopped believing in this God, but only through a lot of reading and research and investigation. Anyone who reads a post in the off-topic section of a hockey forum and says "hey, that makes sense - I don't believe in God anymore" was never really a believer. I'm not going to make a believer abandon his/her faith, but I will be happy to rebut their arguments against evolution. That doesn't mean that I am trying to force atheism on anyone, just knowledge.