I have the impression the "emotional" and "reactive" are bad words in your lexicon. They're not as such in mine, cosmic. We all have emotions about things we care about and you've shown yours in the post to which I'm responding.
If you are Christian you are tolerated, if not, you'd better keep a low profile.
This is an odd thing to say, and most certainly hasn't been my experience.
If you want to do a reality check, look at the change in your pocket or the bills in your wallet or, look at the many places where you still take the witness stand and place your hand on the bible when you "testify".
It's comments like this that have earned secularists a well-deserved reputation as disdainful. Do you honestly think I, or most Americans, are unaware of the allusions to God on our currency, etc.? Do you think that every Christian supports the muddying of Church and State? Let me give you a reality check: we live in a world where not everything is the way we'd like. Personally, I'm embarrassed by the behavior of many Christian Fundamentalists, but they don't threaten me. I believe what I believe and no one will change it. Not Evil and CL with their threats of Hell, not you with your insistence that everything be "rational". Faith doesn't work that way.
BTW, I'm most certainly not an atheist. Solon is also on record as not being an atheist. So, once again, anyone who is not Christian is, by a parochial definition, an atheist. That is my POINT.
Unresponsive and off the point. I have no idea how many Jews, Muslims and Hindus live in your area, but if you made that statement in my neck of the woods, you be looked at with amusement. And you would probably think you're being put down for being an agnostic. |
