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Otto Tellick
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Message 28 of 121 (523544)
09-11-2009 12:46 AM
Reply to: Message 1 by mike the wiz
08-25-2009 7:30 AM


mike the wiz writes:
My prime concern isn't the interview, but the terrible hatred that seems to run through peoples veins, and spite, and poison for creationists.
As I see it, what you are referring to (with some hyperbole, it seems to me) is a natural and hard-to-control reaction that comes up when someone with an open mind, an active curiosity, and a serious drive to understand things as they really are, falls into direct communication with someone who is willfully ignorant, stubbornly disregards evidence, and thoughtlessly repeats tiresome assertions that either have no real meaning or have been soundly and frequently debunked. As you might guess from my wording, I myself sometimes have a hard time controlling this reaction.
But if you think this is a common state of mind among atheists in general, you are way too sadly mistaken. Most of us have the good fortune of rarely or never encountering people who are disturbingly inane, so this sort of reaction to them doesn't really come up, and we are able to spend our time just enjoying life and loved ones, helping out where we can, and doing our best in whatever way we can to make the world a better place.
As others in the thread have pointed out, there's no shortage of hatred being emitted by the faithful in the direction of the non-faithful. The anti-abortion camp includes some "honest to God" murderers, and they don't focus on just atheists -- anyone who doesn't accept the anti-abortion creed (or happens to be near the abortion clinic when the bomb goes off) is "fair game" in an all-too-literal sense. The latest casualty was gunned down while attending church. Does it disturb you as a believer that someone has actually committed such a crime on the basis of their own religious beliefs?
BTW, when I followed your link for the video, I found that it had "been removed due to terms of use violation." I'm sorry I missed it (and the responses).

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