I can respect arguments that being rigidly 'anti' either is counterproductive but not that it's only intolerant to be anti-religion.
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I don't want to make 'pick a side' arguments but I would like to see religious ideas & non-religious ones have equal status.
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Atheist activism is unlikely to achieve this. 'm not sure what would do it except more people declining to see sacred ideas as...sacred
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That's a matter of demographics. There are more religious people than skeptics, so the feelings of majority rule.
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@kirbmarc Not necessarily. Its the case in the UK that ppl think it intolerant to be opposed to religion. There's a respect for it althoughpic.twitter.com/Hkr4U51V0i
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Not being a religious person doesn't mean you're a skeptic. Most non-religious are sympathetic to religion or "spiritual".
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@kirbmarc Yes, that is what I am complaining of. Ppl who aren't religious seeing relig ideas as worthy of more protection than non-relig -
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@kirbmarc It's not just religious ppl reinforcing norm that religious ideas are exempt from criticism/mockery. Its a wider cultural thing -
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@kirbmarc There started to be headway made against this but feels like we're sliding back again. I think the posttheistic approach is best. -
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@kirbmarc Rather than demanding 'atheist' views respected equally,simply declining to take the whole subject seriously or see it as special -
Yes, exactly. Also asking for preservation of secularism by everyone, religious or not. That's what matters.
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