On 4/7/2009 3:45 PM, Ross Cassell wrote to Ross Sauer:


->  RC>> Can a person be an atheist, be indifferent towards those
whom believe
->  RC>> and otherwise, letting everyone be as they choose?

If you would be honest about it, you know they do.
-> 

->  RC>> Do other atheists launch into crusades to persecute or otherwise
->  RS> demean
->  RC>> those of religious belief?


Uh, Ross, who is it here who is bringing in items from other echoes? This
was never really an echo for religionists...but it is they who keep coming
in threatening everybody with hellfire if we don't convert to what they
believe. There's always a couple bad apples in the barrel but I'd take
count of just how many there are of atheists when compared to the number
who claim religion and I think you will find the scales very unevenly
balanced on the side of 'you better believe or else'.

And Ross? I really would like an answer to that first question in the above
paragraph. In fact, I'd still like an answer as to why the christian
religion deserves any more respect than worshippers of zeus, odin or the
flying spaghetti monster? You keep saying a person's religion needs to be
respected but you don't ever say why.

 
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