[Lisa27008]

Just as all Christians are not the same, all atheists aren’t the same, either. Some people don’t like hearing anything they disagree with, and react childlishly. Reasonable adults know we live in a world with over 6 billion people in it, we’re not all going to agree on everything, so accepting differences makes life on earth easier (accepting, as in accepting that people are different and being OK with that, as opposed to merely ‘tolerating’ them). Some atheists are jerks, some aren’t. Just as you wouldn’t care for your religious belief to be judged by the behavior of the worst among you, atheists don’t want to be judged as ‘hateful’ or ‘intolerant’ by someone who runs across a jerky atheist. RE references to God/religion in pledges, on money: I’ve always wondered myself why religious people think that they don’t compromise their beliefs by splicing them into government. If you strongly believe in your religion’s tenets, and if those tenets have any validity at all, they shouldn’t need to be sponsored or approved or protected by the govt. They should be able to stand on their own. The casual references to God and religion in government functions are so numerous, it would be pointless of me to be really bothered by them, but they do represent what I think has been proven to be a really bad idea, i.e., that govt. and religion should go hand in hand. I would think that thousands of years of violent history of the mixture of state and religion would have convinced people otherwise. If you want present-day examples of how ruinous the combination of religion and government is, look at Saudi Arabia and quite a few other countries in the Middle East and Africa. Don’t mean to be anti-Muslim, but when millions of Muslims leave their own Muslim-run countries to live in freedom in Europe, Australia and America, that’s not exactly a ringing endorsement of theocracy. History shows that religion is always corrupted by government, but government is not improved by religion.

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Name : Lisa27008, Gender : F, Sexual Orientation : Straight, Race : White/Caucasian, Religion : Atheist, Age : 39, City : Irving, State : TX, Country : United States, Occupation : advertising, Education level : 4 Years of College, Social class : Middle class, 

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