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Originally Posted by jonesy
Hey, just wanted to say I follow the tenants of a 'vile and wicked monotheism' despite the fact that more and more people (well Fotze keeps saying it) hope guys like me just start to die off.
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I think this is a common misunderstanding of the vast majority of non believers, we are not hating the people but the ideas that some religious people hold. For example most of my Christian friends fully accept gay marriage, abortion rights (strictly as possible), contraception use, sex education in school, evolution, etc...
In Iceland our humanist group is allies with a number of religious organizations in a lot of issues, fighting for the same goals.
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By most standards I am well educated (take with grain of salt as my beliefs may make me delusional on that point too) and I still believe all that 'BS'.
I think I should still be allowed to believe what I want, even if not popular.
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I would fight for your right to believe whatever you wish, so would 99% of those non believers in this world. Its the fact we still have many places in the world where you can be killed for not believing, is why most of us are very sensitive to the idea of someones belief or non belief should be protected at all costs.
In the UK there is a new project called the apostasy project which we have been trying to get more money, their aim is to help people in counties where their non belief is a danger to their life or freedoms. It is heartbreaking to read some of these letters sent to this organization as I have had the privilege of reading many of these letters.
I really appreciate people that are flexible and show sincere empathy, for me its the rigid black&white religious literal-ism that deeply concerns me, and that goes for all the worlds religions.