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Originally Posted by DrummerDeanna
Hm...had to step away from the Ledge for a while at work...but I really enjoyed these last few posts....I agree with you and Jason....good stuff being said... 
I realize that there are people who have a real disdain for religion - any religion....and I totally understand that there are some wacked out Christians (and members of other religions) around...and they're going around giving us a bad name....but that exists in any group.
I've said that before though....but it's true - I've met some mean and hateful atheists...I don't hate ALL atheists or atheism as a result  |
I think saying all Christians are zealots is the same as saying all black people steal. It is a stereotype based on the actions of some small part of a class of people or race.
Even though I know he knows this, I refered to Diss' previous comments in another thread not with derision but solely as matter of fact. I brought it up as an indication of why I thought he was at times narrowminded about religion. I see what I interpreted as disdain for all religion (which he has refuted) as being narrowminded. That is all I was saying.
on edit - also organized religion has caused most of the great joy and simultaneously most of the greatest sorrow in the world and this yin and yang if you will exists to this day. So, it is quite understandable when people have nothing but contempt for religion. I do not, however, have such conempt.