Reply #88: I apologize once more [View All]

[bryant69]

I should not have but in Solid - that was over reaching - it would have been more accurate to say a substantive climate? or meaninful climate? Not the dominent climate, but a significant undercurrent? Something along those lines? or to put it another way, what exactly are you complaining about? Someone said something stupid a year ago and you and Modem Butterfly jumped up and down on him for 50 posts? Or is there a significant amount of anti-Atheist sentiment around her, understated, perhaps subconcious, but real and hurtful to DU Atheists?

As for Pro-Christian Bigotry, I don't know what you mean by that. I'm Pro christian in the sense that I am one and I clearly believe that it's the right answer - I believe that atheists are fundementally wrong (just like atheists believe that I am fundamentally wrong). Just identifying myself as a Christian is a vieled attack on atheism and all non-Christian Religions, because if I thought Atheism or Agnosticism or Judaism or Islam or Buddhism or Jainism or Hunduism or Shintoism et al were the right answer I'd be one of those. By the same token simply identifying yourself as an Atheist says that you don't believe that reigious people have the right answer. They have the wrong answer.

That might be the heart of the problem right there; perhaps at a fundemental level it's a mistake to believe that various religions and philosophies can really get along. I hope that's not true.

It does seem like your feelings are the only ones that matter - you might look at my post upwords about identy politics - #77.

Bryant