Being pro-religion & anti-scepticism is seldom regarded as being intolerant whilst being pro-scepticism & anti-religion is. Huge imbalance.
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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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Secularism is something worthy of activism. Shifting perceptions to stop privileging relig ideas over non-relig probably isn't.
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I think that it's something that's going to come with time, if ever. Positive connotations of religion are widespread.
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