This I Believe There is / is not a God (Religious, cover)

duga · 01-07-2010, 01:28 PM

yeah you really can't upset a true buddhist. i agree with cardboard adolescent...if you truly deeply believed in your religion you should be laughing at another's ignorance, not getting angrily defensive. i think it is because christians and the like see how easily holes are poked in their arguments and get upset when someone starts to.

midnight rain · 01-07-2010, 01:35 PM

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Originally Posted by duga

yeah you really can't upset a true buddhist. i agree with cardboard adolescent...if you truly deeply believed in your religion you should be laughing at another's ignorance, not getting angrily defensive. i think it is because christians and the like see how easily holes are poked in their arguments and get upset when someone starts to.

Hmm, I don't think I get overly angry. I think your generalizing. I also think atheists tend to be more obnoxious towards Christians about pushing their beliefs on them than other religions that atheists seem to respect more. That's just my experience, though.

duga · 01-07-2010, 01:39 PM

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Originally Posted by Tuna

Hmm, I don't think I get overly angry. I think your generalizing. I also think atheists tend to be more obnoxious towards Christians about pushing their beliefs on them than other religions that atheists seem to respect more. That's just my experience, though.

i'm talking about people that are obviously overreacting. and i am also not talking about someone who has just been directly insulted for believing something. if that happens, by all means get upset. i actually agree with you about the atheist thing...so much so that a lot of atheists annoy me just as much.

stopher723 · 01-07-2010, 01:52 PM

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Originally Posted by duga

i'm talking about people that are obviously overreacting. and i am also not talking about someone who has just been directly insulted for believing something. if that happens, by all means get upset. i actually agree with you about the atheist thing...so much so that a lot of atheists annoy me just as much.

I'm with you duga. I think this is existent on both sides. Some believers like to go around telling non-believers how damned they are for not believing, and some atheists like to tell believers how stupid they are for believing. Unfortunately, I think there's a lot of other noise that makes believing and not believing very abstract terms, namely the existence of religion. Plenty of people believe in God but do not associate themselves with any one religion. What I find so interesting is that some people react furiously even if their beliefs (Christian, Jewish, Atheist, etc.) are questioned intelligently and calmly.

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