Oh! (Blushes, hangs head, mumbles apologetically…)
Trinopus (loves “The Monolith Monsters”)
Well, I have no interest in persecuting the OP, even if I live to see a day where my views are in the majority and his take their long-delayed move off center stage. If anything, persecuting him feeds into the whole martyr thing and strengthens his views.
Your something beyond us is kinda of vague, but I get what you are driving at.
As to what should we do to you? Nothing. You may believe as you want - as long as you are not actively hurting other people, I don’t really have a problem with your beliefs. If you are going to try to force them on other people (politically), then I’d have a problem.
Now why would we want to treat the religious the way the religious have treated us, and their co-religionists? I’m all for just shining a spotlight on the irrationality of religious belief and leaving it at that, except…
…not…exactly, but I am in favour of measures that ensure that you don’t get to affect their thinking too much. Like e.g. mandatory public schooling without religious indoctrination.
Well if they’re crazy then they need to be institutionalized. So we better start building new facilities. Except there are more than 5.21 billion religious people, and that is the low estimate that I found and I did not include every single religion out there just the main ones, so the non-religious better get a second job or something to be able to pay for the new crazy houses. Except I doubt most non-religious people would want to spend the money it would require for the new buildings so I guess the only rational thing left is to just kill all religious people.
Christian popultion: 2.14 billion.
Muslim population: 1.57 billion.
Hinduism popultaion: 1 billion.
Buddhist population: 489 million.
Jewish population: 13.4 million.
Well I’d begin by making you wear crosses so that we can find you when we round you up for the concentration camps. Luckily y’all seem to be doing that voluntarily.
Apparently the sarcasm in your question has compromised the sincerity of the response.
Anyone who truly believes in The Flying Spaghetti Monster is a few fries short of a Happy Meal. What’s new…?
If we suppose that all religion is a form of irrational insanity, then it should be controlled, but not persecuted. For instance we could institute zoning laws that would allow for only one building of faith that everyone would have to take turns sharing. We could disallow faith based private education. Eventually it would die out; just a bit faster and messier than it will o it’s own. As education and quality of life increases religion decreases. Just stay the course and It will eventually become nothing more than a quint folk belief.
This is mostly because you opened your thread so insultingly that I really had little desire to respond at first, as in:
[QUOTE=The Conqueror Worm]
Now, I’m very curious as to what the atheists of the Dope would do with me and those like me. Am I to be drugged, incarcerated and rehabilitated? Perhaps executed if I can not change my mind?
[/QUOTE]
The fact that you even think atheists are a group of people who want to band together and abuse or murder “crazy” religious people is positively disgusting. You opened your thread with a gross and unapologetic equation of atheists to monsters, and are now sitting back with a defensive posture waiting for your targets to “step up”. That makes it very difficult to conduct a civil conversation.
When a politician says religion is what determines their actions, they should be hooted down. There are lots of religions in America . They are in disagreement for many fundamental reasons. All Americans deserve representation from their elected representatives. Because the rep has a religion, that does not mean that the rest of his constituents do not merit consideration.
Is a person like Bachmann be allowed to push her faith while doing harm to the rights of others be allowed? I don’t think so in America, the melting pot.
I assumed that you were referring to our new insect overlords. Which I, for one, welcome.
Indeed. Very few of us… I mean them, want to do that… except possibly in moments of weakness when we are in turn being abused or badgered by said crazies. (Who make up a very small proportion of theists really).
With due credit to the late Douglas Adams… it may be a lot easier for us non-believers to build our houses inside-out and claim that the rest of the world is the asylum.
Exactly. Even if it was scientifically and indisputably proven that believers are insane, that wouldn’t change the fact they massively outnumber the unbelievers. So to answer the OP’s question of “what the atheists of the Dope would do with me and those like me”; the answer is not much.