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Originally Posted by Calgaryborn
The conversation here is on the source of what has been coined as "atheist baggage". Photon has suggested that the contempt shown towards religion on this site is isolated to these particular atheists. I rightly pointed out that their contempt is hardly isolated to this site and in fact mirrors what we find on the major web sites and in the popular books written by atheists.
What does any of this conversation have to do with the sources of my beliefs?
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You are making a huge leap of logic here. You are taking a small cross section of vocal and maybe confrontational atheists on a hockey forum on the internet to be representative of a large portion of atheists in the world.
You are also equating certain notable personalities or longstanding arguments or movements or organizations to also be representative of a large portion of atheists in the world.
The same can be done for theists and would you not find an objection to that? For someone to lump you in with certain Christian groups which are very vocal and prominent, but perhaps hold beliefs that you might find too conservative or perhaps differs slightly from your personal denomination? I take it you are protestant (correct me when I am wrong) but a wide swath of the Muslim world makes no differentiation between a Catholic or a Protestant or even Mormon. They are all Christians to them. When the pope makes a statement, or the catholic church is caught up in some scandal or some American televangelist is caught defrauding his congregation don't you want people realize that while being prominent icons of a faith, they are not representative of you, or even the majority of people who hold that faith?
Your leap of conclusions based on a handful of posters on a regional internet forum is no different than someone seeing the Westboro Baptist Church and equating that with all Christians. Don't you see the mistake you are making?
Stop painting everybody with the same brush unless you expect the same treatment in kind.