hamburglar wrote:Mukiri wrote:I'm curious, what do you get out of all this mockery? Is it that you want everybody to be like you, since you have the perfect life with perfect values?
Why not live and let live? Or won't the spirit inside you let you be?
Live and let live? You have to be kidding me. How about you religious people live and let live instead of shoving religion down our throats. Everywhere you go there is religion. You walk down the street and somebody wants to give you some religious flyer inviting you to their church or crusade or kesha. You can't even enjoy a peaceful Sunday morning without having some Jehovah witness people knocking on your door and you think that atheists are the ones with the problem of living and letting live?
Unbelievable.
We have to enlighten people. Religion and imaginary gods are holding people back. We need to get people out of this ignorance. Religion is detrimental to society and the more we educate people on the ills of religion the more we will save gullible people from being eaten by crocodiles and/or starving themselves to death in the name of mythical miracles.
People need to be educated and enlightened. We can't continue having naive people getting fleeced out of their hard earned money by wily pastors every day. There is a reason that developed countries are largely atheist while poor third world countries in Africa are religious. The more religious a country the poorer it is. That is not a coincidence, it's clear evidence of the correlation.
If we are to progress, religion and imaginary gods have to be eradicated. Otherwise we will have generations after generations that are waiting for a non existent god to solve their problems. So tragic.
Aha, so you too have a calling. Are those your personal views or collective views of atheists all over? Maybe what I'm asking, is their any clear guideline of what you atheists do? Or its purely based on feeling, personal or otherwise? If you decided to beat the Jehova Witnesses disturbing your Sunday, or the Pastors fleecing people, as you put it, would you be justified?
You mention development and progress, is that what atheisim is all about? Movement from third to first world, or from rich to poor? Is yours more of a socio-economic movement?
And finally does your backlash only rest with religion? Say, if you didn't like my mode of dressing, or the way I mix and match colors, maybe the way I chew my food, or the culture of using the bush as opposed to digging pit latrines.. would atheists all over come together to address such? I sometimes see my Bishops in the media on matters politics, sexuality etc do your leaders also address such issues? Or its religion religion religion