| json_metadata | "{"app":"Musing","appTags":["Love"],"appCategory":"Love","appTitle":"What is your opinion about atheists?","appBody":"<p>About Atheists or about Atheism ? the people themselves or the idea ?</p>\n<p>The people, I've no idea in general as I don't know that many however, the ones I do know are very strong humanitarians, peaceful and very strong morally and ethically. I always say to people who ask 'what are atheists' like, \"how many wars have been fought or massive atrocities committed in the name of atheism\"?</p>\n<p>The answer is always NONE, anyone can be bad but it takes religion to make someone truly evil...</p>\n<p>As for atheism itself, its a silly term to be used as a collective noun.</p>\n<p>As Chris Hitchins used to say, \"why would we have a term in English for NOT believing in something? Is 'off' on your TV a channel?\"</p>\n<p>I still think this holds very true, if one wishes to address a group of people with no religious belief system, they are simple people!! If people wish to be known and defined by their belief system then use Christianity or Islam as a collective noun!</p>\n<p>If people ask me who I am, I just say I'm Nathen. If they push questions about my belief system I simply say that I don't have one, or sometimes, depending on the context I might say I'm a Humanist, which means I believe in people and think that every one is born with equal rights to life.</p>\n<p>Try getting to know a few people who don't have any religious faith, you may be pleasantly suprised :-)</p>\n<p><br></p>","appDepth":2,"appParentPermlink":"p3vqvz89x","appParentAuthor":"blessingob","musingAppId":"aU2p3C3a8N","musingAppVersion":"1.1","musingPostType":"answer"}" |
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