In article <473dd9a2@news.povray.org>, war### [at] tagpovrayorg says...
> Darren New <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote:
> > and atheists aren't anti-christian, they're anti-theist. :-)
> 
>   In my experience the majority of self-proclaimed atheists vehemently
> oppose christianity, usually much more than any other religions. Usually
> they have a more or less indifferent attitude towards other religions,
> while loudly opposing anything related to christianity.
> 
When you run into one that is living under the thumb of some *other* 
religion, let me know. lol Seriously, you fight what you know, not the 
boogyman in someone else's back yard. It does no good at all, in a 
nation filled with Christians, to complain that the biggest problems in 
the world are caused by Taoists who believe in animal spirits. We are 
not indifferent to them, save in as much that they ***do not effect us 
as directly, so by definition are of less relevance***.

>   (I have even witnessed extreme cases, where devoted atheists have had
> a *positive* attitude towards other religions, up to the point where they
> frown upon criticising them, while still loudly criticising christianity.
)
> 
Umm. Yeah, and even Christianity has "some" positive things in it, once 
you get past all the goofy shit on the surface. **some** have a lot less 
goofy BS to start with. Hinduism, in some forms, is about as close to 
atheist as you can get and still be religious. Buddhism is much the 
same, in its original form. While it contains a lot of unprovable woo, 
it *does* emphasize one principle that is common to science, "One should 
not believe anything simply because someone else *told you* it is true, 
not even me. You should figure out if its true yourself." - Buddha. And 
again, 90% of the people running the government, businesses, the local 
school board, etc. are **neither** Hindu or Buddhist, so we don't 
exactly see a lot of what ever true stupidity might arise from them. I 
am pretty sure that most atheist in the ME **probably** spend most of 
their time ranting about Islam too, does that also make no sense to you? 
Oh, and the real joke is that the Jewish faith actually has "Atheist 
Jews" in it, so even if the orthodox branch is as nuts as the Christian 
fundamentalists, they are *also* less of the problem.

To be frank, I tend to suspect that if it wasn't politically incorrect 
and harder, there would be "Christian atheists" too. I have heard people 
describe themselves as "following the word", but also stating that they 
don't believe most of the NT, and are unsure, or even certain, that 
Jesus wasn't who the Bible claims. The problem is, Christian ideals are 
so generic now, that unless you are a literalist or Evangelical, its 
**literally** impossible to be Christian and give up belief in its God 
or prophet. Jews still have a lot of OT rules about proper behavior, 
proper food preparation, proper this, proper that, etc. which are part 
of their traditions, and which are not generally shared by everyone else 
on the planet, who "don't" happen follow their beliefs. A "Christian 
atheist" isn't a whole lot different than a plane atheist, and that is a 
real serious problem if you want to call yourself the former. lol

Its not that your perception is wrong, you are looking at thing on the 
wrong scale.

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