# Your beliefs and thoughts on the "atheist billboard"

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [November 28, 2010, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-beliefs-and-thoughts-on-the-atheist-billboard/562195 "2010-11-28T19:26:14Z")\
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**Post date:** [November 28, 2010, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-beliefs-and-thoughts-on-the-atheist-billboard/562195/15 "2010-11-28T21:45:47Z")

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> [@Kaio](#):
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> Believing in something and attempting to impose that belief on someone else are two different things. Why object to the belief when it’s the behavior that’s a problem?

Because part of the belief system in question requires that you go forth and concert people, and that you impose those beliefs by law.

> [@Julian Assange and WikiLeaks](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/julian-assange-and-wikileaks/562184/1):
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> There are plenty of spiritual folk who don’t feel a need to impose their beliefs on others. I daresay it’s relatively more common than the fanatics out there (the fanatics are just louder).

And I think that the more liberal believers who think that are fooling themselves; they think they are the norm, when in fact they are the fringe. Wanting to force your beliefs into law is the norm for believers not the exception.

> [@Julian Assange and WikiLeaks](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/julian-assange-and-wikileaks/562184/1):
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> There are non-religious dicks out there too.

But not as many. They have fewer motives and excuses for it.

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