If you hate Christianity so much, I guess you are in the wrong country, seeing as we were founded upon having free religious thought. I don’t hear you bashing other religions and their religious symbols. God still loves you.

1. If this country was founded upon having free religious thought as you say, then what is wrong with someone hating Christianity? I am not saying that Annie Laurie Gaylor or anybody else here does; I just think it is odd that Christians go on and on about how this is a free country, yet they get upset when someone disagrees with them.

2. Atheists in the USA tend to be more critical of Christianity than other religions since that is the most common one in the USA. Yes, there are a lot of Islamic extremists in the world as well. But I think that asking an American atheist why they aren’t getting all upset about religion in other countries is sort of like asking someone in Kansas why they aren’t preparing for a hurricane. You deal with what you have to deal with.

daniel

Um… who are you talking to/about?

“Hate Christianity so much”? What a broad attack that is… some of the posters here are Christian, and one of the bloggers here is a minister… There’s a broad range of beliefs of people posting here.

Why not engage us in conversation?

You also wrote:

” seeing as we were founded upon having free religious thought.”

I agree America was founded upon free religious thought. I think everyone posting on this website is dedicated to your freedom to worship, speak, assemble and believe as you choose. Similarly we demand the same respect from you about our freedoms.

” I don’t hear you bashing other religions and their religious symbols.”

I think that no idea should be held above inquiry and questioning. But I see noone “bashing” religions or religious symbols in this thread, christian or otherwise.

Do you have something in mind, or is this a more general complaint about atheists?

God still loves you.

I know you mean well. But save your preaching. Talk to us, don’t preach at us. Believe me, we’ve heard all the preaching you could ever do.

On a different note; I grew up living next to a neighbor who was not at all religious. The guy even use to tease me growing up, that I had to go to church and he didn’t have to. He was a strange kid sometimes, his mother sometimes beat him up. He exposed himself to me once, and a couple other nasty disgusting things I rather not mention, this all happened in the 1960’s and ’70’s. Last year, 2006, he became a catholic priest of all things at the age of 49. I tracked down his email address and sent him an email, I never heard back from him. My Aunt attended his father’s funeral last year and personally handed him my email address, still never heard from him. He works as a priest in the Green Bay, Wisconsin area.

When you mentioned your religious side of your family in your interview with Mr. Mehta, I couldn’t help but reflect on one my own conundrums. My family is staunch Catholic and although I don’t live with them, I often have to interact with their social circle, which includes a great number of priests, nuns, etc.

I have no issue with addressing nuns as “sister”, but I really am bothered by the idea of calling the priests “father”. I think I am insulted by the whole notion that priests are a “middleman” to a god. Do you know of any reason-based writing about this topic? As a humanist, I don’t feel I should have to acknowledge religious titles, but I also wonder if I’m just being petulant and immature about this. Any thoughts on this?

cheers,
Devika