ext_54461 ([identity profile] evil-megz.livejournal.com) wrote in [personal profile] sqbr 2008-11-07 11:49 am (UTC)

It's interesting although completely understandable that on the one hand you allow people an open forum to express their religious beliefs, and on the other you insist people with a particular belief (that religion is bad) don't fully express it. I know ultimately atheists are welcome here to discuss their own beliefs and the restriction is on them abusing other people for their beliefs... but when it comes down to it nobody can really express their own beliefs without the implication that they think all conflicting beliefs are wrong. I'm not arguing with the restriction, since the old religious debate is so bleh, it is just very difficult to find the line between religious opinion and religious intolerance.

I say all this largely because, well, I am quite religiously intolerant, and I consider my beliefs against religion to be a defining characteristic of my own religious beliefs. I am entirely atheist, excusing my knowledge that there is no such thing as knowledge and I cannot actually know anything and thus am technically agnostic about everything including the sky's blueness and my own existence.

The only thing that stops me actively taking a stance against religion (beyond just attempting to point out its flaws every now and then) is that a person's religious beliefs are not the entirety of that person. I'm not going to abuse somebody for being religious because in the vast majority of cases they are an otherwise good person and do not deserve it. It's like somebody who, say, is a pretty good person but litters. You think their littering is wrong and you may attempt to change their opinion on the matter, but you will still be friends with them and treat them with respect.

(If anybody wants to discuss with me why I am atheist and religiously intolerant, I suggest we take it elsewhere)

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