Hello Cindy!

29 Jun 05 10:35, you wrote to me:

 RC>> Maybe they have a right to believe as they do and dont need your
 RC>> approval?

 CH>  Yes but must they shove it down everyone else's throat?

In my experience, not all of them do. (I live in the Bible Belt too)

But if you want to press this argument, why must you shove your atheism
down everyones throat?

I am a atheist too, but the difference between you and me:

1.

I dont collapse on the floor frothing at the mouth in a epileptic seizure
of grand mau proportions, when I see, hear or otherwise encounter those of
a faith or the faith itself, whatever denomination said faith is.

2.

I dont support the open warfare some radical atheists such as yourself have
engaged in towards those of faith, such warfare only reinforces the resolve
of the radical factions of both sides which only makes this war
self-perpetuating.

You are being an alarmist and cannot prove that you are having your
personal beliefs violated by those whose beliefs differ from your own,
rather it merely burns your britches that others who are of faith dare
believe different from you, otherwards they arent actively antagonizing
you, you are however the one on the offensive.

 RC>> Atheists arent the only ones with rights and freedoms, right?

 CH>  That is true but we are the victims of those who push their views on
 CH> others rather than simply keep those view to themselves as we are
 CH> expected to do with ours.

Do you believe that atheists have their victims too?

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