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Edited by Old_Papa_Rich: 8/29/2014 5:39:51 AM
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Why do people always pick on Christians?

I've been scrolling through the forums and I always see this. Why? What did they ever do to you?
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  • Chrisyianity cripples the the growth of our youth by telling them to blindly believe and have faith in something. You should never have blind faith in things. You should be able to question everything and find an answer that can be proven beyong reasonabke doubt. That what the scientific method is designed to do. Not just believe because it's what's taught.

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    • God said this would happen to us, we would live discouraged by evil forces into giving up our ways

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      • [spoiler]( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)[/spoiler]

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      • Because it's easy to go after the overwhelming majority in this country, and those who are trying to legislate their morality.

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      • Ha! That title is funny... Wait... Your serious aren't you?

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      • Imagine for a moment, that you are in a crowd of people, both shapeless and faceless. One decides to define itself, giving itself a form and face. Because it is discernable among the others, it serves as a focal point for aggression, and support. [i]In essence, if you hold up a sign with your opinion, someone is gonna slap you for it at some point.[/i]

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        • Because Christians are way more alpha than atheists generally, so atheists use words to attack Christians over the internet because they are puny little dweebs in real life

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          • Ask the first nations

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          • People like me have little problems with any spiritual preference, thats why its so easy for us to be offensive. JEEEEEEEEEEWWWWWWWWWWWWWS!!!

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          • Edited by vIRL_Warlock: 8/29/2014 7:36:03 PM
            Well it was kind of easy for various fatihs (not just Christianity) to get bad reps for a lot of their mindsets. Christianity has the handicap of having the largest body of people try as hard as they can to ignore science, claim they're being oppressed by science, then try to oppress other people with their faith because the constitution protects their right to be christian (which a lot of them interpret as we can do no wrong therefor everyone be christian or satan's butt buddy). Please note that I'm not saying this is true of all Christians, it's just a common thing people are exposed to and I think it's fair to say that those I described are mostly extremists since just like everyone else people tend to not care what another person does in their life. With the Muslim thing there's the whole extremists going way off the handle and killing people and being in general murderous psychopaths. Again this is describing the extremists and certainly does not represents the whole. Something I can't stress enough on my stance is that there is no end all be all rule. Each case is different from person to person and honestly the vast majority of people just want to coexist. All that said there is a bit of a Muslim scare that I hope doesn't turn into a post pearl harbor Japanese situation. Though I've only seen two examples of it thus far there is a bit of a nervousness towards the Jewish over the Israel/Palestine conflict but that seems to be more representative of people that are largely uninvolved with the situation. The stronger polarization with the Christian situation is largely to do with, me guessing, a lot of us here are from the States and it is an issue everyone is pretty much familiar with. I don't see as much on the Muslim thing since it seems to be pretty taboo to bash anything that isn't normally associated with the united states, though I know quite a few people that seem to be of other faiths be very vicious in their stance with all Muslims due to the actions of a few psychopaths. That's probably not helping to dampen the stereo types against them. As a bit of a conclusion still keeping in mind that I try as hard as I can not to paint a whole with the actions of the few; however there is only one group of people I can think of that have caused hateful scenes yelling profanities and swinging signs around telling me I'm going to burn in hell because I happened to be walking down the road that particular day or because I went to an event for like minded people to appreciate things like games and comic books. Edit: As a bit of a continuation there is also the lack of a common sense policy in how things are ran in the States. For example I know of a situation involving someone I know having a career that received the ire of a particular christian group (Not wesboro sadly) they would constantly picket his place of work, his home, were his daughter went to school, they'd sends hundreds of hateful phone calls a day, have threatened his child saying she would, "Burn in hell for being satan's woman of ill repute" (The actual word would be censored but I think you all can figure it out), they spread his name and address and phone number around so more people could "Spread the concerns of God" (threaten and harass him and his family), and they did this for months. No legal action could be taken on his part to stop it. Technically it was all legal since it was all a religious protest. Keep in mind that if at any point he did anything he would have been prosecuted for assaulting a protest. There are tons of stories like this so people tend to be a bit bitter.

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          • Christians pick on Satan I have no special regard for Satan; but I can at least claim that I have no prejudice against him. It may even be that I lean a little his way, on account of his not having a fair show. All religions issue bibles against him, and say the most injurious things about him, but we never hear his side. We have none but evidence for the prosecution and yet we have rendered the verdict. To my mind, this is irregular. It is un-English. It is un-American; it is French. Without this precedent Dreyfus could not have been condemned. As soon as I can get at the facts I will undertake his rehabilitation myself if I can find an unpolitic publisher. It is a thing we ought to be willing to do for anyone who is under a cloud. We may not pay him reverance, for that would be indiscreet, but we can at least respect his talents. A person who has for untold centuries maintained the imposing position of spiritual head of four-fifths of the human race, and political head of the whole of it, must be granted the possession of executive abilites of the loftiest order. In his large presence the other popes and politicians shrink to midgets for the microscope. I would like to see him. I would rather see him and shake him by the tail than any member of the European concert. - "Concerning the Jews" M Twiz

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          • Funny story, I used to be a Christian, but it turns out I was baptised by a paedophile priest. I turned Atheist quite quickly after that.

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            • Edited by joibasta: 8/29/2014 3:54:18 PM
              *Cough cough* Hitler Ehem sorry I had a burn in the back of my throat.

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              • Why do people pick on the US? What did we ever do to yo- Oh... Right...

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                • Edited by ManBearPigIets: 8/29/2014 4:41:53 AM
                  I just ignore them, but since you felt like bringing it up as a topic, they tried to brainwash me as a child with cult indoctrination techniques. Along with most other religions, are the cause of most evil in the world, and make justifications about how they teach morals and donate to charity ignoring the fact that you can do those things without religion. The fact that people can think they are intelligent and still actually believe that garbage, no different than santa or the tooth fairy or bigfoot or ghosts or psychics, it's like talking to a cave man who you can't even begin to explain anything to them because they are just so -blam!-ing dumb they couldn't possibly understand it. One of the most frightening things about this world is that these nut jobs that 'believe' in any organized religion actually have a say in how the world runs, it is simply abhorrent that these people still exist outside of stories about ancient primitives and their 'beliefs' they came up with to try to explain reality. If you try and brainwash a child because you know they won't believe the bullshit you are telling them unless you indoctrinate them before they are able to think rationally, you are a disgusting individual and the world would be better without you. If you are a simple minded fool who needs to play make believe to stop yourself from going crazy comprehending the end of your existence, then keep your delusions to your -blam!-ing self.

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                  • try being an atheist [spoiler] jk, i'm a satanist [/spoiler]

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                    • because christians pick on everybody else... or are just ignorant and annoying...

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                    • Easy targets.

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                    • ITT

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                    • I don't. I am one. I do however *facepalm* when some go all nuts and hate on people. Do they realize they are sinning when they hate on sinners?

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                    • Because they are asshole pricks telling atheists, Jews, Catholics, and others how to live their life

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                      • They start stupid threads about how evolution isn't real, try to convert you to their religion, have started many wars in the past over religion, and seem to think that they are superior to all other religions and beliefs.

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                      • Edited by BerzerkCommando: 8/29/2014 11:38:08 AM
                        Why do Christians hate gays and then there's the KKK which are Christians that hate blacks and Jews? What did they ever do to them?

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                        • People great what they don't understand

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                          Because you guys are little girls when it comes to arguing.

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                        • Whoa, OP activated his trap card, the entire Flood falls for it! gg no re

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