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I have been in a prejudice class and a debate class in my college experience, and I have this discussion with some other people as well. They find out one way of another that I am atheist, and then they proceed to react with pity and almost always try to suggest how to be more spiritual/religious. Most of the time I just go with it, then smirk afterwards. But sometimes they say some things that piss me off.
a) I am weak or stubborn for not having faith or accepting true religion (which is invariably their own)
b) That they don't understand how everything can be based soley on chance and "coincidence". Some of the ones who think they are particularly smart (who have probably been to websites who try to explain away science) throw the shit about how the human eye is so complex that it could not have evolved on "chance" (which displays their lack of knowlege about what evolution is in the first place, ironically) If you know about the eye, and the eyes of other creatures, you see patterns and flaws like everything else.... Anyway, I know there are some athiests here... is it normal to feel like laughing at or smacking these individuals that think they know it all when they clearly don't?
a) I am weak or stubborn for not having faith or accepting true religion (which is invariably their own)
b) That they don't understand how everything can be based soley on chance and "coincidence". Some of the ones who think they are particularly smart (who have probably been to websites who try to explain away science) throw the shit about how the human eye is so complex that it could not have evolved on "chance" (which displays their lack of knowlege about what evolution is in the first place, ironically) If you know about the eye, and the eyes of other creatures, you see patterns and flaws like everything else.... Anyway, I know there are some athiests here... is it normal to feel like laughing at or smacking these individuals that think they know it all when they clearly don't?
Do you think it's normal?
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ANAL!!
Your atheism is always going to threaten some people, particularly those whose own faith is shaky. Many people can't face the possibility that there may not be a divine force watching out for us, and/or that death may very well be the end of life, with no heavenly reward as an incentive to live a rightgeous life.
You don't have to smack anybody. Be a positive, rational representative of your beliefs. You have a right to them, and the insecurities and/or prejudices of others should not guide your actions.
I get comment like this all the time and have herey grown utterly sick of such demeaning and condesending statements. So, I do think it's normal, completly normal to sadiscally rip these ppl a new one.