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Originally Posted by atheistwoody
Because I feel its my duty to help you. It bothers me to see people wasting their lives worshipping & praying. Yes im very proud of my atheism and would love everyone to drop the idea of god. Religion rouses my curiousity based on the fact so many people believe in something that has absolutely no proof of even existing. Would you believe in a giant invisible chicken called pete that floats around space singing songs from Oklahoma? no of course you wouldnt as logic tells you its ridiculous. Yet you cant disprove it, just like science cant disprove God. Can you say with 100% certainty that fairies for example arent real? can you prove they are pretend.
The thing is, I would have no problem with religion if it was kept at home or in churches, mosques etc. However its not, its rammed down kids throats at school, its on the news, our own leaders preach it and use it to set policy. It causes diversity, war, people fighting each other based on their belief that their pretend magical lord is real and their enemies is not real.
That my friend is my problem with religion.
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If you think religion is "rammed down kids throats at school" if you think religion is somehow "forced" upon people, then that would be your misconception of the issue. No one individual is ever required to believe what another does and the suggestion that religion is being force fed to people really only applies to those people who are ignorant or weak enough to
allow it to. It goes back and forth, both the faithful and the faithless practically battle for those followers who are so willing to blindly follow whichever demagogue approaches them first. I know atheists who are atheists merely because they decided church was too early in the morning for them. In all seriousness, that's the only reason they decided to stop practicing their faith--self-professed laziness. I don't really care, I'm not about to judge, the point I'm trying to make is that
both sides compete for followers, and the only way something--an ideal or principle--can get "shoved down your throat" is if you allow it to.
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