I definitely agree. :) But the trend I've been seeing a lot is ridicule of all religious people and religions, even if they're being reasonable. Or not even in a debate, they just go around making fun of religious people all day. And whenever someone posts anything about god on facebook, they go say hurtful things to them and then post it on the internet like "just Pwned this Christian".
I feel like if you really want someone to agree with what you're going to say, you wouldn't immediately disrespect them. If someone in my own age group were to treat me the way they treat people, I wouldn't give credence to anything they had to say simply for the bad attitude they said it with.
I've definitely been in my fair share of debates gone retarded. It just seems like more often than not the people I see arguing this position are just trying to stroke their own ego while putting other groups of people beneath them.
Do you think someone would change your mind about a topic by mocking your beliefs about it?
The website I've seen most of this on has a lot of... interesting... people for lack of a better term.
IIN that many modern day atheists use ridicule as a conversion tactic?
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I definitely agree. :) But the trend I've been seeing a lot is ridicule of all religious people and religions, even if they're being reasonable. Or not even in a debate, they just go around making fun of religious people all day. And whenever someone posts anything about god on facebook, they go say hurtful things to them and then post it on the internet like "just Pwned this Christian".
I feel like if you really want someone to agree with what you're going to say, you wouldn't immediately disrespect them. If someone in my own age group were to treat me the way they treat people, I wouldn't give credence to anything they had to say simply for the bad attitude they said it with.
I've definitely been in my fair share of debates gone retarded. It just seems like more often than not the people I see arguing this position are just trying to stroke their own ego while putting other groups of people beneath them.
Do you think someone would change your mind about a topic by mocking your beliefs about it?
The website I've seen most of this on has a lot of... interesting... people for lack of a better term.
Sorry for the length, again. :P