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Originally Posted by AOII Angel
Why do people love to claim this? Atheists make up a small percent of society and for the most part are not an organized group of people.
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So? Why should/does this matter to you? Does a belief system need at least a 100 million followers for AOII Angel to consider it valid?
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It's not a religion. Their is no "dogma" and no great leader determining what all atheists must believe.
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I take it you're not familiar with the writings Dawkins or Hitchens but either way there are many religions without the Pope-like supreme leader. Don't even try to tell me that atheists don't proselytize either.
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A very few are vocal and politically active, and this seems to stick in the craw of some Christians. I think that these critics really think that accusing atheists of having their own religion is some sort of insult...but isn't that insulting yourself?
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I'm not calling atheism a religion to necessarily insult, but to call them out. They claim the desire to live free from having others religion thrown in their face yet they throw their religion around. As a non religious man myself, I find these atheism groups very ironic, as do many others.
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Originally Posted by Drolefille
This may surprise you, but just like religious people, a-religious people are mostly quiet and keep to themselves. Nevertheless it is annoying to watch one's supposedly a-religious government supporting Christianity on a regular basis. Unsurprisingly most Christians don't notice/are OK with it.
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Actually it doesn't. I know non-religious mostly keep to themselves but I was speaking of organized atheism (specifically AA) in my original post. Maybe I should have added a disclaimer
Also, can you point to some examples of how the government regularly supports Christianity?
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Probably have been. Odds are they're not allowed to tell our soldiers to lay down their weapons and walk away (not that any particular Quaker would, I'm speaking in the hypotheticals.) Government employees and military personnel in particular have restrictions to their freedoms of speech. Ask state employees here who are restricted in the number of bumper stickers allowed on their cars, or political buttons they can wear.
Reality of anti LGBT sentiment among the chaplains who are supposed to be counseling
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Two words for you- conscientious objector.