Actually I'm comfortable
with any religious person who doesn't make every other person who doesn't agree with them feel like crap for their own beliefs.
You hide behind religion when it is convenient so that you don't have to follow secular law (i.e. not subject to workplace regulations because your hospital is
staffed with religious people).
However as a human being I would relate much
better with a religious person who has an open mind than with an atheist who only wants to argue why there right.
She was not interested in finding out more about how we often seek to work
with religious people on shared aims for equality and non-discrimination in party policy.
The
probelm with religious people is that they actually believe this is simply about who chooses to believe in what, when in reality, the religion corporation today is responsible for much of the discrimination that still exists in our society... what religious people choose, is to not see that.
U have no right to assign to other people ur belief, but see this is the
issue with religious people, they preach respect and do exactly the opposite.
My # 1
criticism with religious people, is thus: Those of us who reject religion in favor of science tend to speak about our beliefs in the way the universe works with an assumed sense of «we think.»
One of the big problems i
see with religious people is the inordinate amount of time and effort they spend connecting with an imaginary «god / jesus» as opposed to actually connecting with the real people who are around them everyday...
Simply
disagreeing with a religious person about their beliefs, though, is enough to set them off about how lost we are and how we need to be saved... how else am I supposed to respond to that, with agreement?
Members of the Non-Religious Pastoral Support Network work
closely with religious people in chaplaincy and pastoral support teams in hospitals and prisons.
You can even try to
communicate with religious people or the ones with contrary believes, as sometimes opposites get along very well and turn out to be great couples.
We don't know with 100 % certainty that they're wrong like we
do with religious people, but it is almost as irrational to believe in something for which there is no evidence as it is to believe in something we know to be untrue.
But again, the question is not whether or not Jesus hung out
with religious people.
Just as Jesus didn't hang out with sinners and tax - collectors as an endorsement of their beliefs and behavior, so also, the fact that Jesus hung out
with religious people should not be seen as an endorsement of theirs.
† Atheists do not really exist, they just pretend that they don't believe in God and argue
with religious people.
IDK why ppl constantly try to logically argue and reason
with a religious person... as a wise man once said, «If you could reason with a religious person, there would be no religious people.»
Religion is and should be a very personal thing, the problem I have
with religious people is that many seek to impose their system of belief on everyone around them.