How is it impossible when I have met people who do follow religion and yet have respect for others. A book doesn't speak for your religion and neither does a church. The concept of a true believer is impossible and is typically not used by the person themselves. The concept of a true believer is either used by someone who is essentially inane enough to make that statement or used by another person/3rd party to describe a person.
I am an atheist, but I am also a subjectivist, so I cannot comprehend why you refer to true followers when it is impossible. There can be no true followers because of the age, translations, chruch, different people, etc...
Yes people are subjective, yada yada. Though, if people are true believers of the bibles words to follow said guidance how can one respect one another? If your being subjugated because of a book, how can being open-minded make us all sha rainbows and dance around happy? It all contradicts one another and there will never be a solid ground of respect. Even with a grin on your face in the back of your mind you're still going to be thinking just what you believe in. Sort of like a homophobic person just trying to get along with a gay person. (Which God is against & tons of Christians dislike by the way. Not Adam and Steve it is Adam and Eve). They dislike them because of a belief and see it as morally wrong to really never respect them even if the follower flash a smile and moves on with their lives. Not many religious people are going to break their rules to flat out accept you, all for the sake of not going to a horrible after life. They will still believe it and just be closet disliking you in the long run. How is this possible to just fix conflicts of beliefs with being all happy faced up when it is sort of conditioned to be disrespectful towards a said group? Truly and utterly impossible. Listening and not attacking someone and taking all that in does not change the ideals one holds to be true. Only way anyone is truly to get along is if everyone and everything is dead. (You can say it is a mix or morals too, but blah).
To understand where I was coming from when I stated what I did: The comment you were commenting on specifically spoke about Atheist (considering the specific mention of a belief in a deity) and therefore addressed you accordingly... Hope this clears my comment up?
The comment I was commenting on while commenting about your comment.
All I was saying really was based of some of the views people have been posting is aimed in a since as if atheism was a religion & was only stating not just atheist could be anti-theist in terms of where you aim your bullets per se. We are all atheist in a way to, be it you follow one type of god while not viewing the others as true. Then yes I could be included in this said group if I wanted to be on the opposition of you. (Yes, some views or opinions could be viewed as such I guess, but I am not one to go on the rebellion as if you're harmful so their for I am not an anti-theist atheist and only an atheist. (On that note what do you think all these Christians trying to suppress Muslims are, as their so called beliefs are considered harmful to some Christians).
http://atheism.about.../AntiTheism.htm(Alrighty then it is taking me forever to even type this stuff out. I have no sleep at all today and earlier today was moving big air-compressors and sha around. Insomnia and working is fun! If I read anything incorrect or whatever based off sort of projection of what another person has said or just out of tired crap my bad. I know I clipped noted one post even so yeah. Time for me to try get some sleep if possible. Not really a believer in terms of using sleeping pills, but boy would that be nice right about now. XD Good morning, night, or whatever it is my break time from PC).
