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Originally Posted by duga
i'm talking about people that are obviously overreacting. and i am also not talking about someone who has just been directly insulted for believing something. if that happens, by all means get upset. i actually agree with you about the atheist thing...so much so that a lot of atheists annoy me just as much.
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I'm with you duga. I think this is existent on both sides. Some believers like to go around telling non-believers how damned they are for not believing, and some atheists like to tell believers how stupid they are for believing. Unfortunately, I think there's a lot of other noise that makes believing and not believing very abstract terms, namely the existence of religion. Plenty of people believe in God but do not associate themselves with any one religion. What I find so interesting is that some people react furiously even if their beliefs (Christian, Jewish, Atheist, etc.) are questioned intelligently and calmly.