Underseer
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I do worry about the plight of African-American atheists or Arab atheists who can be subjected to bigotry from two different directions like that.
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I do worry about the plight of African-American atheists or Arab atheists who can be subjected to bigotry from two different directions like that.
James Brown
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Yes, being rejected by friends and family can do that to a person.
atheists dont respect religion so family and friends kick them out from their life
C_Mucius_Scaevola
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No, atheists often have too much respect for religion. They'll listen politely, when a simple "shut the fuck up" would be more appropriate.
Religionists, OTOH, often have no respect for non-believers, which is why they vilify us, try to convert us and throw us out of their homes for nothing more than the "crime" of thinking for ourselves.
Cheerful Charlie
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they do for 72 virgins
C_Mucius_Scaevola
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What are they going to do with 72 virgins when they've just exploded their cock and balls into ground meat?
Anyway, fuck that. Give me one experienced woman any time, rather than a bunch of virgins who wouldn't be able to suck my dick for giggling.
Their friends and family should be ashamed of themselves. Decent people don't ostracise their friends and relatives for failing to respect religion.
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I come from a family of atheists. My parents were both atheists; My fathers parents were atheists (and we are talking radical atheists, in 1930s and '40s London, when atheism was considered shocking by their neighbors).
By the time I was born, atheists were the majority in my home town. My family and friends would be more likely to shun someone for being religious than for being an atheist. Although they probably wouldn't unless they were a total pain in the arse who never stopped banging on about their religion. Shunning someone just because they have some odd ideas is something only arseholes do.
You really need to get out more. The rest of the world is not as you imagine it to be.
My grandmother raised a large family in the South East of London during the Blitz, on her own (her husband being in North Africa at the time helping Spike Milligan with Hitler's downfall). She was a vocal atheist, and was widely respected by her neighbors because she gave them real and tangible help, not just platitudes. If any gods had wanted to strike her or her family dead, it would only have required nudging one stick of bombs a few dozen yards, and I wouldn't be here at all.
if you atheists want respect ? learn to respect other
Decent people don't ostracise their friends and relatives for failing to respect religion. You should all be ashamed of yourself for discarding friends and family so readily.
Underseer
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Even if that were true (and you provided no evidence to back up your assertion, so I have no reason to accept that your claim is true), that still would not prove that Islam is true.
The consequences of something being true are unrelated to whether or not it actually is true. Your argument is an appeal to consequences fallacy.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appeal_to_consequences
Underseer
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Should we respect people the same way you respect people?
You didn't watch the video, did you?