[netmilsmom]

I was listening to Michael Medved one day and he had a talk on Atheists vs Religious people.

The Pastor speaking said that religious people really had no problem with Atheists because we could understand their point of view. It takes faith and they had none.

But Atheists cannot understand a religious point of view. To believe in a higher power is as wacky as believing in UFOs. Therefore they feel themselves superior and act in that way.

[pnh102]

I would take Ms. Public's view on atheism as a quasi-religion and state it is indeed a faith in itself. No atheist, even the evangelical ones, can prove that there is not only no Christian God, but no gods of any religion, or any other supernatural all powerful beings.

They simply have to have faith that everything they say is true.

[MyTwoCopperCoins]

On the contrary, real atheists do know what belief is. It is the realization of that, which made them atheist, in the first place.

Believers are largely hypocrites who use their faith as a justification tool.

Real believers, if they had the highest faith in a god-figure, would not waste a single minute living their ordinary lives- they would be out crossing oceans, to risk life and limb to spread what they believe is the truth. For that, I have a lot of respect for certain missionaries from various faiths, even if I don't believe their message to be true.

[hunter112]

But Atheists cannot understand a religious point of view.

And I've noticed on every FR thread concerning atheism, religionists cannot (or choose not) to understand the atheist point of view. Most describe it as something done to spite them and their beliefs, as if we define ourselves solely by being the opposite of what the believers around us profess. Perhaps they have known somebody who was as "in your face" about feeling superior as Dana Carvey's 'Church Lady' was about her particular sect of Christianity.

If it was a choice between only two sides, belief and non-belief, it would be simple. But there are many sets of beliefs, and to those of us who have considered it quite possible that all of the belief systems have been wrong, we feel that we've simply added one to the number of systems of belief that every true believer in a particular sect rejects.

I know it displeases a lot of people here to consider it, but the vast majority of atheists and agnostics really don't care to get vocal or confrontational with it, they really don't give a hoot about your nativity scene or your menorah in a public place, as long as they have the same civil rights that Western societies had formerly granted only to believers. Yes, there clearly are the Michael Newdows and the Madelyn Murray O'Hairs out there, but for every one of them, there are a thousand 'pushers' of the tens of thousands of sects of religious traditions.

[pray4liberty]

Therefore they feel themselves superior and act in that way.

And when they are humbled, as life has a tendency to do, to whom or where do they go?