Secular Believers - 5/6

[@musekiteer]

Ah, but far too many people not only think that they can talk to a deity that other people have invented but also that the deity will listen, care, grant requests, and forgive sins that the inventors invented. Not, of course, that the deluded admit that other people invented the deities in which they believe. Seeing, hearing, and feeling things that are not there is usually regarded as sign of mental illness.

[@musekiteer]

Sadly true. I do empathize with their desperation. Unfortunately for them, mental health would have been a better coping strategy than delusion. Religion too often gets in the way of healing and indoctrination creates many of the emotional difficulties in the first place.

[@Iconoclastithon]

Those of us who are atheists? what about agnostics, and deists, and various fellow rationalists? What about non-christians/jews of other religious sorts? Atheists are'nt the only ones beeing disrepsected by the display of the ten commandments,etc.

[@Iconoclastithon]

No ALL ATHEIST programs, blah, blah, blah. So dualistic. Theyre are no all deist programs, or all agnostic programs, or all Rationalism{not just atheism} programs. There are few to none for alternative religions,etc. This really exposes what this is all about. The dualism of christians vs atheists and atheists vs christians. Niether is really all that concerned with other voices.

[@Iconoclastithon]

Not religious does'nt mean they are atheists, just means they are'nt religious. They may be rationalists and/or non-theisst of other sorts. Also atheism doe snot mean rationalism,empiricism,materialism,humanism,etc; there are atheisst that are supersitious, religious, have faith in concepts beside the god one they don't believe in, some religions are atheistic{sects of buddhism, satanism, paganism, and others}. All by christians, Buddhisms a religion, do you see buddhist programs, CONT...

[@Iconoclastithon]

Tel-ee evangelists, LoL!