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Christianity and Christians get attacked far more viciously and more often on this site than any
other religious group. I don't think that this is because atheists feel more confident to critique
or bash Christianity as they are more knowledgeable about it, nor is it because they are really
being provoked by ignorant or intolerant Christians on this site. Religious debate topics surface on
a daily basis, usually from fundamentalist atheists on this website, in order to provide a venue for
unprovoked attacks on those who practice this religion.
The real reason why atheists are more inclined to attack Christianity and Christians than any other
faith or their faithful is because unconsciously, they feel that their family's Christian background
gives them the right to do so. When an atheist launches a virulent attack against Christianity,
he/she can turn around and refer back to his/her family's Christian heritage and even if they do not
realize it, they are using this background to justify their attack and pre-empt any criticism that
they are being intolerant towards another group of people. Additionally, in most western societies,
being called anti-Christian carries much less weight that if one were to be labelled Islamophobic,
anti-Semitic or a racist. There is no question that this is clearly a double standard. |
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Its because the majority of people on here are either christian or atheist. The Christians defend
Christianity and attack atheists and atheists do the vice versa. If a few Muslims joined the site
I'm sure that we would get a few muhammand is great or such debates. |
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Christianity does come in for more stick on this site. For one obvious reason - there are more
Christians on here bringing the subject up than any other religion. If those Christians were
replaced by Muslims then it would be Islam that came into question. Nothing to do with PC. |
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We are and always will be tolerant, it's what Jesus taught us. |
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I don't have a problem slating any other religion. It's just that some Christians on here seem so
self righteous that I can't resist. |
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The site is filled with bumptiously assertive christians who smear their intolerance and dim-witted
credulity over almost every debate which takes place, whether it has anything to do with their
system of superstition or not. This provokes a hostile reaction from those who do not share their
magical belief system and who aspire to a world where reason and science provide the foundation of
knowledge, not superstition.
If Muslims or Jews or Shinto-worshippers or whoever turned up and made the same bumptious
assertions, it would likewise provoke a hostile reaction. Admittedly, it would be harder for most of
us to critique these magical belief systems because we know very little about them. In the West,
many atheists are former christians, so they have enough knowledge of the christian cult to be able
to critique it. The same is not necessarily true of other cults.
It's also a fact that christianity is the most popular religion in the world and is practised in the
most powerful countries. Therefore the follies of this particular cult have more important practical
consequences than the follies of other cults.
We look at the Bush regime and see the disastrous effect it has had on the world. It is impossible
to ignore the religious support which brought Bush to power, and the secular apocalypticism - the
sense that life is a struggle between cosmic forces of good and evil - which inspires the War on
Terra, just as it once inspired the Cold War, and which, quite clearly, derives from the christian
fundamentalist background of the United States. |
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I agree that Christianity is the most slated, but that seems to me because there is a cadre of
devout Christians here and a cadre of atheists who clash with them. It isn't because Christianity is
inherently tolerant (though I must say I've been impressed in my short time here by the tolerance of
people over such emotive issues) but simply that there is more potential for conflict. I guarantee
that if there was a Haredi Jew on this site Judaism would get plenty of slating, but it would prove
nothing about the religion.
If you want to bash other religions go ahead. Once you have done so will it make the bashed
religions more tolerant? |
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16 Jun 2008 01:54
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