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    Non-Theists, How do you choose your Icon?

    Well, I went with Humanist, because that describes me the best. I feel that "atheist" is incomplete, since it only refers to my lack of belief in gods, rather than my whole world view. I could have gone with Unitarian Universalist, but that denomination has all different flavors of worldview...
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    Prejudice against atheists needs to end.

    Why is atheism offensive to you?
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    Prejudice against atheists needs to end.

    I'm glad you and your husband can overcome your religious differences. Religion shouldn't trump love or tear people apart. My girlfriend had a tough time accepting it when I deconverted (she and I met at church), but we are still together, and still very much in love.
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    Prejudice against atheists needs to end.

    If you think that's enough to earn atheists collectively the title of "most distrusted minority," then I've really got to question your perspective, as well.
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    Prejudice against atheists needs to end.

    I never claimed atheism was a religion. I'm saying that some people are protected by law on the basis of opinions they hold. Who is being obnoxious? So far, all some atheists have done is write books, go on TV, and argue on the internet. Christianists, meanwhile, try to impose their personal...
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    Prejudice against atheists needs to end.

    Dude, no. I'll take people who complain in the media a lot and file lawsuits (leaving aside for a moment the ones that blow up abortion clinics, murder gays, molest children, or abuse their spouses) over people who blow themselves up every day of the week. Violence is wrong, and much worse...
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    Prejudice against atheists needs to end.

    Religion is a protected category, too. http://www.dol.gov/dol/topic/discrimination/ethnicdisc.htm As you'll note, the survey I posted a link to said nothing about distrust of "only annoying atheists." It was atheists, period. I find your call for more prejudice against atheists bizarre, and...
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    Prejudice against atheists needs to end.

    The story of Charles Smalkowski: http://atheism.about.com/b/a/257793.htm
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    Prejudice against atheists needs to end.

    I nearly lost the woman I love when I deconverted from Christianity, and if I try to run for office, I will have to conceal the fact that I am a Humanist, or else I will have no chance of getting elected. Among other things, those are the fruits of prejudice. You don't know anything about how...
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    Prejudice against atheists needs to end.

    To me, it looks like you are justifying it. It looks as though you are saying "you bring this on yourselves, maybe you all ought to sit down and shut up." Otherwise known as "blaming the victim."
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    Prejudice against atheists needs to end.

    Why are you defending prejudice?
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    [OPEN] Getting it from all sides

    There is a difference between accepting the results of science as valid, and respecting science itself. Science is not just the results, its the process. Part of the scientific method is not believing extraordinary claims in the absence of compelling evidence. That is where the contradiction...
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    Prejudice against atheists needs to end.

    Atheists are the most distrusted minority in America. (http://www.ur.umn.edu/FMPro?-db=releases&-lay=web&-format=umnnewsreleases/releasesdetail.html&ID=2816&-Find) I hope that everyone here agrees that the situation described in the link above is intolerable and unjust. Atheists share the...
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    [OPEN] Getting it from all sides

    I understand that you don't like it when other people judge your religious beliefs, but democracy benefits when ideas aren't above criticism because some people base their identity on them. Ideas must earn respect on their merits. Liberal Christians invite criticism, for example, when they...
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    For the atheists/other non-Christians

    because I was a Christian then. Now I'm here to discuss religion, because it deals with the "big questions" (although it is not the only way to do so, it is one way). Interacting with religious people keeps me realistic about who they are and what they want, which is important when you live in...
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