Comments on: Are All Theists the Same? http://dwhitsett.wordpress.com/2008/05/15/are-all-theists-the-same/ Scratchings from the pen of Dwight Whitsett Sat, 11 Oct 2008 17:17:46 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=MU hourly 1 By: Brian http://dwhitsett.wordpress.com/2008/05/15/are-all-theists-the-same/#comment-1130 Brian Sat, 30 Aug 2008 13:59:37 +0000 http://dwhitsett.wordpress.com/?p=228#comment-1130 They do that because almost every group has killed them in mass at one point or another. So some of them have a hard time differentiating what group it is that is currently slaughtering Atheists and in the name of what God. All they know is that almost all religions have taken their turns killing, raping, and torturing them. It's the same as lumping murders together with rapists in your mind. Both crimes are horrible, but they are very different and Atheists need to see that. I for one will try to do a better job remembering to separate the people who (in the words of Pope Urban II) "perforate their navels, and, dragging forth the end of the intestines, bind it to a stake" or a simple Presbyterian minister used a shotgun to kill someone in the name of his God. In return, I would like religious people to realize that now all Atheists are the same. Most of us are very, very different and have little in common with each other, other than being post-theological. They do that because almost every group has killed them in mass at one point or another. So some of them have a hard time differentiating what group it is that is currently slaughtering Atheists and in the name of what God. All they know is that almost all religions have taken their turns killing, raping, and torturing them. It’s the same as lumping murders together with rapists in your mind. Both crimes are horrible, but they are very different and Atheists need to see that. I for one will try to do a better job remembering to separate the people who (in the words of Pope Urban II) “perforate their navels, and, dragging forth the end of the intestines, bind it to a stake” or a simple Presbyterian minister used a shotgun to kill someone in the name of his God.

In return, I would like religious people to realize that now all Atheists are the same. Most of us are very, very different and have little in common with each other, other than being post-theological.

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