There's a reason atheists are the least trusted group in America... they have no reason to hold themselves to any sort of consistent moral standards.
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No no no no NO!!! Argh, it hurts to read crap like that!
Klaus, there was a real poll about it, who knows how biased, and the result was that atheists are the only one of the poll options that had more than half the people distrusting them. It was mentioned in the infamous Paula Zahn now panel, I don't remember who did the poll, though.
Hertzy: a very loud obnoxious baptist who kept interrupting everyone whenever they started to make sense... and I forget the others.
Whereas Christians do have a reason to hold themselves to consistent moral standards, but generally don't. Talk is cheap. It's the doing that's tough. And Christians don't act any more moral than anyone else; they just maybe feel a little guiltier about it afterwards.There's a reason atheists are the least trusted group in America
Sure. There are a lot of Christian bigots who don't like atheists. Polls like that are just popularity contests. I'll bet Jews and gays would be somewhere high on that list, too.
Statistics as well as logical thinking disagrees with you.
How odd you would say that, WalkerBurgin, considering how our "Christian" President, George Bush, seems pathologically unable to tell the truth (unless he ever gets around to saying, "I never tell the truth.", which is unlikely).
"There's a reason atheists are the least trusted group in America... they have no reason to hold themselves to any sort of consistent moral standards."
Here's something I don't understand. Christians repeatedly claim that religion is the only thing that can induce consistent morality in people, yet I only see the question "why don't atheists misbehave?"
Or you think they haven´t. What moral standards, if I may ask, have those suicide bombers or those who put bombs in gay bars or any type of place where people disagree with them?. I haven´t seen a single atheist doing that.
Believe it or not, WB, the atheist standard for morality can be summed up with the following statement: do to others as you would have them do to you. Sound familiar? And guess what, you don’t need a sky ghost to follow it!
actually it is because people, including you apparently, cannot concieve of the fact that it is not necessary to believe in an invisble man in the sky in order to be a good person.
You claim that you have objective moral standards, but they only come from humans interpreting older human traditions with wishthinking, bigotry, reality denial, etc. And making of it what seems to be convenient for the moment. The hypocrisy is often exposed by the irrational or hateful actions of self-professed believers. Also exposed by their supposed models, that they claim to be following. For instance, you're not supposed to judge others, according to Jesus. He also said that you should pray in private, instead of making elitist self-serving public shows, like this spam. You taint the name of your own, then somehow wonder, with persecution complex, why others will not accept your undeserved condescending "rule" or failed attempt at shaming. I know your business and it made me exit Babylon.
In the FSTDT features posts from Digg, WoW forums and a number of others, there is indeed evidence of how hate speech is promoted not only about atheism but also against straw men to scapegoat. Where knowledge and science and society in general are also confused with atheism and demonized. This is evidence that it is pushed either by divisive trolls for radicalization, or by a specific type of high control ultrafundamentalist cult, likely exploiting its victims with enforced ignorance, and rejecting reality in favor of mythology, pseudohistory and bigotry. Imposing and spamming its poison everywhere, even where off-topic and unwelcome. The original posts were often deleted by moderators, but the samples remain on FSTDT for analysis and as evidence. That's high moral standards?
https://fstdt.com/?domain=forums.worldofwarcraft.com
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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