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    Astonishingly, a previous poll by Pew suggested respondents in the US regarded atheists as less trustworthy than rapists. One of Atheist TV's new phone-in programmes, The Atheist Experience, has already had a taste of how many Americans perceive "non-believers".

    "So you were studying to be a minister, and now you don't believe in God? You're the devil," one caller tells the host. "You're a Marxist, you're an atheist and you're from Russia," says another.

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-…

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    • The most stupid ones are usually the callersmonospaced
    • Something not quite right about atheists coming together like that ... feels almost hypocritical.MrT
    • if you're assuming non-belief is a belief-system on par with religion, then it might seem hypocriticalmonospaced
    • but that's an incorrect assumption, because a cause is not a belief systemmonospaced
    • It's a belief, whichever way you look at it mono. 'Cause' is such a PR persons catch-all word.Morning_star
    • Not believing does not require belief. It's belief in something supernatural that requires belief. Sorry.monospaced
    • An atheists assertion is that 'Gods do not exist", correct?Morning_star
    • Yes. Kinda like we don't believe in the tooth fairy or magic elves either.monospaced
    • Or how Christians don't believe in Zeus, or Thor.monospaced
    • Belief shouldn't be required to accept they don't exist. Acknowledging non-existence is not a belief.monospaced
    • Perhaps belief isn't the right word. Faith? I can make up a monster right now and I wouldn't expect you to believe it exists.monospaced
    • Mono, You dogmatic ways make you sound like an ignorant jock. Stop anthropomorphisingyurimon
    • shit you dont know or havent explored.yurimon
    • I cannot be sure either way. I don't know for certain that god(s) do not exist. Yet you can claim for certain god(s) do not exist because the universe is material and humans are just biological robots. Is that about right?Morning_star
    • Yet you can claim for certain god(s) do not exist because the universe is material and humans are just biological robots. Is that about right?Morning_star
    • about right?Morning_star
    • Can you claim there's no tooth fairy for certain?monospaced
    • I can. And yurimon, I'm not anthropomorphizing, I'm just making a point about believing in mythsmonospaced
    • You can? How?Morning_star
    • Mono Name and tell me a story of myth you know. complete myth story. You follow indoctrinated misconceptions?yurimon
    • Alot of old myths are rearanged and given modern vocabulary. example Freud and young in psychology. r they full o shit?yurimon
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