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Author Topic:   Atheists identified as America’s most distrusted minority
ReverendDG
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Message 48 of 60 (308967)
05-04-2006 12:51 AM


I agree athiests are the most distrusted minority, the reasons i think are many but a few i think compact the issue the most is:
ignorence - mostly from people who can't picture someone believing in no higher power of some sort, not that people are stupid (some are though)
but really people look at someone who doesn't believe in something higher as eather lying to themselves.
Thus the possiblity of being a lier and or corrupt or without a basis for morality, so that would make anyone who doesn't understand athiesism distrustful
another might be along the lines of limited pov, very much like the idea that a person without a religious compus is not really moral, people might do anything, immoral instead, it has a lot of emotion based things rather than rational based things
as we have seen many times alone on the board people have show the belief that no god = no morals or ethics = distrust because of the first idea

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ReverendDG
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Message 50 of 60 (309260)
05-05-2006 12:20 AM
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05-04-2006 2:05 AM


i think the idea that you don't need god to function as a person is inconcivible to a lot of americans, which is why it will be a long time before we can elect someone who is not religious or doesn't profess to a belief in god/s

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ReverendDG
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Message 58 of 60 (309504)
05-05-2006 7:57 PM
Reply to: Message 55 by ThingsChange
05-05-2006 9:06 AM


Re: Catholic invasion
Yup. And there are more Catholics pouring across the border every day than atheists and agnostics graduating from high school.
and this has to do with the topic how?
this isn't even relevent to what i said, even if there were more catholics than athiests and agnostics it still wouldn't matter, since they believe the same thing about non-thiests

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