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Fidhooki, I suppose that name calling is easier for you than thinking. Racist, bigot, or whatever other inappropriate term you want to whip out of your unsophisticated vocabulary and wave around. You will have trouble making it stick though. Atheism, as I took pains to explain to you is the absence of belief. It is not subject to fundamentalism. You may challenge it at any time with rational argument and evidence. If you can prove god, you have triumphed and atheism will melt away. Atheism is not a bigoted belief, as it supports no position, only asks that a particular belief be proven. You cannot be an atheist zealot as explained above, as empirically proving the existence of god will trump atheism.
No atheism is not a bigoted beleif. There are many athiests
who get along just fine with those that believe. However,
in your words, I am 'delusional' and anything I say would be be suspect because I believe in god. So that must extend to
anyone else that believes as well. Now would you hire a
person who has such a delusion since their views and
opinions would also be 'suspect'? Discriminating against someone just because of their religous beliefs is bigotry
no matter the reason you use to hide it.
Now I am not saying you know you are one. You might not
even realize it but when you do, you might need to reevaluate
how you handle others.
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No, you did not hit a nerve, you would be hard pressed to hit the broad side of a barn with an idiom. By the way, engineers are proponents of the KISS principle; most mechanics are on the hour, so prefer complexity.
You know I was about to reply to your other comments
when I saw this line and realized why we have such a
problem. Oh and for the record. While car mechanics do
tend to do that, airplane mechanics, which usually do say
the KISS motto, that tend to do that are frequently
reclassified as unemployed mechanics...
Anyway, I think our problem is we do not see words the
same way.
Like the word Rake. Do you see it as a farm impliment first?
or a slope or incline? Or an action of a downward clawing
motion as in "raking the fingers down their back". how about
"raking someone over the coals"?
It does not make either one of us 'wrong', we just have
to be more careful and specific.
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Perhaps I do sound like an arrogant asshole; but if it is true (and it is not) I am an arrogant asshole who can string together an argument, writing clearly with a dramatic flair, humour and a sense of amazement and irony.
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Whats your excuse?
That I'm not arrogant. Oh I'm an asshole at times but I believe
so is everyone else at one point or another in their lives. I
just try to be honest about it.