last one about religion for a while, I promise
Thursday, 1 September 2005 10:29 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
miriam_eIt would be nice if the different religions would stop jostling each other for power over people's minds and just let us atheists alone. We don't try to force our beliefs down religious throats, I don't see why they have to hassle us so much. I don't know how many times I've been brought to my door early on Sunday morning by religious people wanting to convert me.
What is really weird is when I'm at social gatherings and the religious ones start to go on about god this and pray about that. If I stand up for my position and point out the mistakes in their logic they become insulted. It is like the old days when people polluted your air with cigarette smoke they'd get annoyed if you objected. Likewise religious people feel they can pollute the mind-space with impunity, and become annoyed if asked not to. They somehow think it infringes upon their rights.
I'd like laws that prevent people from spouting religion in public places and law suits against those who would damage the impressionable minds of youth by contaminating them with toxic religious memes. It might finally force moslem, christian, and other religious zealots to put a sock in it.
No more from me about religion for a while. I find I get too depressed by it.
What is really weird is when I'm at social gatherings and the religious ones start to go on about god this and pray about that. If I stand up for my position and point out the mistakes in their logic they become insulted. It is like the old days when people polluted your air with cigarette smoke they'd get annoyed if you objected. Likewise religious people feel they can pollute the mind-space with impunity, and become annoyed if asked not to. They somehow think it infringes upon their rights.
I'd like laws that prevent people from spouting religion in public places and law suits against those who would damage the impressionable minds of youth by contaminating them with toxic religious memes. It might finally force moslem, christian, and other religious zealots to put a sock in it.
No more from me about religion for a while. I find I get too depressed by it.
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Date: 2005-09-03 11:21 am (UTC)then you say you want a law to shut others up who don't say what you like to hear.????
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Date: 2005-09-03 02:37 pm (UTC)I feel everybody has a right to free speech, but they don't have a right to propagate poisonous memes.
I feel everybody has a right to do as they wish, but they don't have a right to pollute my air with cigarette smoke.
I won't ever force atheism down anybody else's throat, but I resent others continually trying to ram religion down my throat. But what is worse than trying to convert adults is when religion targets children. I'm old enough to be able to see the lack of logic in religion, but how is a child to fare? They should be protected from mind-warping religious memes until they are old enough to be able to think clearly.
Of course this kind of thing is wishful thinking and I know it is not likely to happen for perhaps 50 or even a 100 years from now. But if nobody ever says anything to stop the religious people tearing this world apart then it will just carry on that much longer.
Hmmm... I wonder why you hid under an anonymous ID. Do I know you and you are embarrassed to say who you are? Believe me, I won't be annoyed. Many good friends of mine are religious. I dislike the religion, not the people.