DrRusty Wrote:atheists attack on christians? I'm an atheist and I honestly don't care what other people believe.
This.
I don't absolutely care about what people's faith is, what they think about me, if they generalize their opinions based on that or not. I can also understand why they don't want an atheist president, tho. Because in a country that the majority of people have faith in a religion, in this case, christians, they want someone that they can match to the population, someone that is "like everyone else."
Wanting people to think differently is like wanting any other country that has a religion attached to the majority of the population to put someone that has a different faith in charge of their country. They want someone to defend their interests and to be like them, and in this case, their interests also apply to the religious interests.
Also, christians attacking atheists and atheists attacking christians are both equal stupidity. If you want to be respected, then the first thing you should think about is not to attack or to show yourself as what they think about you. Both are example of ignorance, and lack of common sense. I've heard many atheists saying "But i'm just trying to defend myself from the steryotypes". By being someone that attacks people for their faith, you just confirm these.
If you really want people to think about you for not being an atheist, but for who you are, then don't yell at EVERY SINGLE MOMENT that you are an atheist. Let people discover that AFTER meeting you, not before. Then, they'll see that they were wrong. This is wanting respect, it's wanting people to know you before knowing your faith.
Some stupid thoughts like that also come from some "Feminists" that keep saying "Men are pomegranatety, ridiculous, worthless" and attacking any men. It's the same case of idiocy, Feminism is an awesome movement that is about fighting for the SAME RIGHTS as men, and this is the true meaning of feminism. But some claim themselves as feminists, but don't say a pineapple about their rights and say that they don't care about how they can fight for a better life, but just blame men for it and keep attacking them.
Such behavior isn't feminism, it isn't fighting about a peaceful world for both men and women, and for equal rights, but is just the female equivalent to the machism stupidness. This is exactly what should happen to this ridiculous war between Christians and Atheists, if you really want them to break their steryotypes, stop claiming yourself as part of a group, and let them know you before you introduce such aspect. Fighting like that, for both sides, is equally stupid.