as small as a world and as large as alone

4:47pm December 20, 2013

madeofpatterns:

If you can’t tell the difference between religion and arbitrary made up nonsense, I have a big problem with you.

Same here.

I had an atheist friend who kept equating believing in God(s) with believing in Santa Claus or unicorns.  It really, really irritated the crap out of me.  I don’t care that she didn’t believe.  I don’t care that people are atheist or agnostic.  I do care when they belittle people who are spiritual or religious, and can’t make even the slightest distinctions between their perceptions of religion and spirituality, and the reality.  

(Although sometimes I wonder, when an atheist basically says they’re an atheist because they don’t believe specifically in the Christian God, or the Jewish God.  Or because they don’t believe specifically in an old man with a beard sitting in the sky.  Which most Christians don’t believe in either, mind you, unless they’re little kids.  By those definitions, I’d be an atheist too, and so would a lot of people who are definitely theists.)

(Also atheists who are ableist about belief in God(s).  As in, who equate belief, with various disabilities, or say only people with various disabilities would be stupid enough to believe in gods.)

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