Just like i won't get into your sex life or your relationships with your parents when I meet you, so I won't go into your religious beliefs. If you insist on foisting them on me, I will openly and frankly let you know mine. And that's where it all goes pearshaped.
Make small talk with me, use your indoor voice or you will not be happy at the end.

Let's funk!

Sheep Enabler.

I will agree with you on at least one point. It seems to be human nature to tend towards self righteousness and the desire to be or feel superior to their neighbors, regardless of the reason. It's not always religious. It's certainly not new.
I do feel superior to the religious bent. Is it right? I don't know. But I do because I feel the very fact I can turn my back on superstition and recognize reason puts me in a higher bracket.
I put a great deal of thought and effort into understanding where a person is coming from. From understanding comes tolerance. But I'm pretty much out of religious tolerance these days.

Hmm, smug because you are rational and have evidence based thinking or smug because you follow bat shit crazy dogma? Maybe smug isn't a good trait but is appropriate here. Maybe not so much in a church.

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There is a certain smugness that comes when one thinks they are right. So what perspective keeps one humble?

"Self-rightious" seems to be a term that contradicts it's own common defination. Simply, self righteous means excessively or hypocritically pious. Pious meaning:having or showing or expressing reverence for a deity.

Being former Christian, I know it is taught that Christians are not righteous because of any thing they do but because of what is said Jesus did. So, a Christian's "righteous " is not of their self.

From the Christian point of view a person would be "righteous " but not of, or because of their own "self".

Where as many illogical atheist that enjoy sarcasm worship of the non-existent flying spaghetti monster sky God, would seem to me to be more "self" motivated in their sarcasm worship to the non-existent flying spaghetti monster sky God by the way of making sarcasm fun of those that claim their righteous is from their deity and not themselves.

"People need reality checks from how others treat religious people." Include yourself there while adding non religious people to your quote and you'll be 100% right. Some "meme jokes" aren't as funny as you may think..

I replied to your post, "Some atheists can be just as self righteous and judgmental as religious people. Change my mind."

"[agnostic.com]

It appears you were challenging atheists, trying to upset us.

Next time, please be more kind.

Something does not have to be offensive to be tiresome. Someone does not have to be hysterival or offended to comment that something is, for example, tiresome. So glad to be amusing.

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Full disclosure - I don't know what post it was. I see most and, I can tell you, I wasn't offended. Only trolls offend me, and you are not one.

I didn't get offended, however I did find it dumb. But then again, I've grown tired of all the "change my mind" post that I've seen lately because the writer/s didn't really want anyone to change their mind; they just want to poke the hornet's nest.

I didn't respond because I didn't see the need. If I misinterpreted it, I apologize

You did (perhaps mistakenly?) connect Culture with Religion. Maybe Human Services neglected to teach you that. But it's a baby step. Keep learning Sista.

You write the truth, Veronika.

First do not mistake disagreement with being offended.

Also, I do not think it is "harmless". People who allow illusions to cloud their judgment are dangerous. As I said in a previous post on another thread:

If you live in a residential neighborhood, you have kids, and some clown comes barreling down the street at 90 mph, even if he is your friend, you are going to get pissed off an call him out for his bad behavior . . . That does not necessarily guarantee an end to your friendship, but it certainly has that potential.
This analogy is just as relevant to other forms of dangerous behavior. Granted, it is possible that a friend may just not see that what they are doing is destructive, but it sure is not acceptable to me to let someone going on being destructive . . . What I see on a world-wide scale, (and there are pretty large majority of American ostriches sticking their heads in the sand on this issue) is people who are supporting "patriotism", wars, illegal actions in other countries, for example the bombing of the Libyan water supply, the use of depleted uranium in weapons, white phosphorous, promotion of unjustified wars, support for Israel, which is one of the most racist countries in the world, and have you ever noticed how whenever the USA is bombing a country, it is never a country with people who have white skin and always a different culture? Iraq . . . . roughly one million people killed . . . . and much suffering afterward as a result of depleted uranium use in weapons. And who is it that votes these crazy, war-loving christians into office, and how many times have you seen a major church leader stand up against all the illegal wars?
Unfortunately, to the vast majority of Americans, these things . . . are things that they seem to think are nothing more significant than watching a war movie, with just as much indifference and nonchalance. Add to this, the belief that many of these people hold with regard to "end times", where many believe that they can actually instigate the second coming via helping Israel to the point of rebuilding the temple and also by war, their complete disregard for the environment, and you can bet that if I have a friend, s/he is going to get tested on these things, because as I see it, it is worse than the idiot driving through your neighborhood at 90 mph. Just the other day, I saw an article about how in Syria, an American military vehicle attempted to run a Russian military vehicle off the road . . . . the USA has no business whatsoever in Syria, they were not invited in, they invaded, and if you look up the UN reports on the so-called poison gas claims, you will not find one sliver of substantiation of the claim that Assad used poisonous gas . . . it was all an excuse for the US to interfere, just like country after country that can be named, and what most people fail to see is that if they do not stop this out-of-control terrorist organization in Washington, they are going to wake up to a day . . . . when we are entering into a new world war . . . . and if that is not driving at 90 mph down a dead end street, I do not know what is . . . . . people are not thinking of their children's future, they think all the wars will end, they will then go back to what they were doing beforehand, but most likely scenario is that if it comes to all-out war, . . . . it will end in multiple huge nuclear blasts . . . followed by a very long silence.

People who allow their judgment to be clouded by illusions are a big part of what is wrong with the world today, and the contribute to the mass murder, extreme injustice, coups, economic warfare, and all of the above-mentioned behaviors that are carried out by our government, and, if you can watch a person going 90 miles an hour down a residential street with children and do nothing about it, or watch our government doing what it has been doing, and say nothing about it, or worse yet . . . . support it, you can bet your bottom dollar that the last thing I would call it is "harmless", and I will not stand on the sidelines while someone enables that kind of behavior, simply because they allow illusions to cloud their judgment.
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Christians believe that certain people will burn in hell. When you dehumanize other people, and picture them as being unworthy, i.e. ("do not throw your pearls before swine" direct quote from their idol), "swine"? . . . that is clearly and unambiguously a form of hate. Why not seek what is best for ALL of mankind, the World as a whole, all races, all cultures, rather than being divisive? It's not harmless. . . .

Almost everyone believes in things that simply aren't true, it's not necessarily a character flaw. Most of my friends and family are religious to one degree or another, and they are just as horrified by the hate spewing evangelicals as anyone.