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Any anger you perceive is all in your mind. Atheists don't generally have a problem with the religious providing we are left alone and not pestered by them.
It depends on what you mean by "pesturing". To you, being pestured is as simple as somebody telling you "merry christmas".
My husband was heckled to the point that he ended up quitting his previous job because his coworker and employer were pushing religion.
And my last job was so anti-religion the previous guy quit because of it.
My co-workers would routinely harass me because I'm a Christian. And no...I did not try to "push" my religion on them. I rarely, if ever brought up the subject to them.
And my last job was so anti-religion the previous guy quit because of it.
My co-workers would routinely harass me because I'm a Christian. And no...I did not try to "push" my religion on them. I rarely, if ever brought up the subject to them.
And my last job was so anti-religion the previous guy quit because of it.
Wow, you worked with atheists?
So, you guys sit around all day and talk religion or non-religion??
Cool! Where is this job at??
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My co-workers would routinely harass me because I'm a Christian. And no...I did not try to "push" my religion on them. I rarely, if ever brought up the subject to them.
do not actually consider myself an Athiest in the truest sense of the word, but I certainly am NOT religious and I often DO get ticked off at religious people.
The reason is that they are always "disapproving" of me in some way. I like to drink alcohol. Where I live you are treated like some kind of monster if you drink. I often cuss. I'm an adult, I'm entitled. I do not like the disapproving looks I get from the religious types when I use colorful language. I do not go to church on Sunday. Again, I get those disapproving looks if I am out working in the yard (in the summer, natch), instead of going to services. It seems that everything I do that is not approved of by the religious folks in the neighborhood get me disapproving looks and people shaking their heads at me.
Also, I find that religious people love to talk about religion in excess and often to the exclusion of all other topics. I am all for freedom of speech, but I am sick of hearing about it. I am sick of being "blessed" every time I sneeze or being wished a "blessed day" by some one. Leave me the hell alone with your dogma, will you? Please?
Atheist seem to get really ticked off at people who hold religion ideals. I don't believe in organized religion, and can understand the sillyness behind most of it.
However, why do religious people anger you so much? How have religious people "oppressed you". Please share you stories, thoughts, and suggestions. I just want to know so I can understand the anger behind the Atheist movement lately.
Thank you.
For people to have religion doesn't offend me one bit. What offends me is when these people bend society to fit their agenda. I don't care if someone goes to church 5 times a week and donates 75% of their income to said church, I don't care if these people take their kids to church and have grand old Christmas celebrations and midnight mass.
All that is fine and dandy, it is their business, their choice and their way of life and I have no right to demand they change their ways for the sake of myself and my ideals. That being said, I also think that these people have absolutely no right to demand and use politics to force me into submission of their ideals.
we have yet to see any god, any Jesus, any rapture, I have yet to see a man that was made of mud, pieces from Noah's ark, the tablets with the ten commandments inscribed on them or any of this. Thus I don't see why I should have to bend to their ideal.
Again, I don't care what people do in their personal lives, actually I encourage people to attend religious groups if this is what makes their lives whole; I don't care if people live by these ideals if that is what makes their lives whole. But if their ideals do not make MY life whole, I have no intent to live by these ideals and they have absolutely, positively, without a doubt, infinitely no right whatsoever to force me into their ideals or use the power of their religion to abuse the rights of others and forceably submit them to an alien ideal.
So in short, I don't have an axe to grind with religions people - none whatsoever. I do have problems with the systematic abuse of the power of religion for the advance of their own agenda and aggrandizement.
Hey if you have your religion and makes you feel happier, well more power to you.
But I don't like when overtly religious people constantly claim to have all the answers and tell me I'm going to hell for not having the exact beliefs that they do.
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