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Originally Posted by Lanny_MacDonald
I know you're trying to play Devil's Advocate, but the fact is quite on the contrary Captain. I think atheists do very little of what you suggest and only take action when someone tries to force their religious beliefs on them. Frankly, I don't care if you want worship the Easter Bunny, as long as you do so in the privacy of your own home or church. Don't thrust your beliefs of a supernatural entity on people and not expected to get a good bitch slapping for it.
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But aren't you setting a dangerous double standard here, shouldn't you also be stating that people that are athesists should also confine thier opinions to thier homes or too thier areas of congregation? Lets be honest and frank in that both sides spend a great deal of energy trying to promote thier ideas on each other?
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Originally Posted by Lanny_MacDonald
You know, its kind of funny, but there have been more sightings and physical proof of UFOs, EBEs, and visitations from intersteller vehicles than there has been for any religion, yet the people that come forward with this proof are considered mentally unstable and not credible. How can one group of people, that has seen or experienced something (verifiable) be chastized for their beliefs, and a group that believes in something with zero evidence to support it, be considered as normal and the bedrock of our society? Very strange.
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Personally I don't believe in UFO's visiting earth, or Roswell because I aspire to the marble theory of the universe (if you want to know what they is let me know
). But your right, we tend to write off things that we don't see for ourselves or don't see as a concrete proven with photo's, movies or personal experiences as products of the lunatic fringe. But again this is going back to the heart of this whole debate. Evangalist based Christian's maybe don't believe in evolution, because they don't see the train of evidence as a solid cast in stone thing, and people that don't believe in creationism don't believe it because they believe more in a proven theory of evolution.