AIBU to think that atheists

[dandelionss]

think their views and beliefs should take precedence over anyone else's?

YANBU

Yanbu!

YABU because that view is also shared by people of all beliefs, and indeed, quite often by people with religious beliefs.

YABU - we don't have beliefs....

Of course they should.

Otw.

Yanbu i hate the threads on here that say 'my dd had to sing hymns today and im furious that shes being indoctrinated with religion'

Get over yourself! Ds1 went to a synagogue and a mosque with beavers and we're bloody catholic fgs, its not like hes going to be brainwashed.
Its all about learning, taking part, understanding others.
I tend not to go n the threads anymore it just drives me nuts

What's a 'mosque with beavers'? Is that some kind of sexy thing?

"Ds1 went to a synagogue and a mosque with beavers"

That's nothing mosschops. My DS went to a tabernacle with otters.

Lol

GREENTOWN

Until I hear of atheists burning people at the stake, partaking in suicide bombings, stoning people etcetera I judge you UNreasonable.

Thanks for that charming generalisation.

Atheists don't all impose their beliefs on others any more than all Christians do.

I am an atheist, I have never and will never believe in God (or rather I firmly I believe there is no God, which IMO is different). I am perfectly happy singing hymns, I will be very happy when there are school trips to places of worship of all religions and I will hopefully volunteer to go on them myself. Had our local school been a faith school then that would be fine too.

I don't like the threads you refer to either but we aren't all Richard Dawkins y'know!

YABU. Some atheists may think that, just as some Christians, Muslims, Jews, Pagans, insert belief or non-belief system of choice, may think like that.

Saying any one group has a monopoly on self righteousness is BU.

MOSSCHOPS, you say....
Get over yourself! Ds1 went to a synagogue and a mosque with beavers and we're bloody catholic fgs, its not like hes going to be brainwashed.
Its all about learning, taking part, understanding others.
I tend not to go n the threads anymore it just drives me nuts

I get the point of what you are saying here (we are a non-religious family but our children went to re classes/religious school visits for educational value), how ever, I am laughing at this comment - you are saying you don't mind kids going to religious events of another stripe, then state you are catholic, it's not like hes going to be brainwashed???? I'm sorry, but raising your child to hold a particular religion as being the "correct" one, just on the grounds that he/she happened to be born to parents who practice that religion is brainwashing of a sort.

Every bloody opinion programme seems to have a member of a faith, like that qualifies them to have an opinion over whatever; children and abuse, domestic violence, rioting in the streets of Britain.

And seriously, when I see bishops in places of power over my life JUST BECAUSE they are bishops, well... it makes me even more cross when people bang on about hereditary lords but no-one mentions those unvoted for prigs.

Did you study to be a priest/whatever of any other faith? Then you know everything about everything and we need you to tell us what to do,

So if you think that no-one cares about poor old Christians or whoever and their opinions in this country and that atheists should just shut up about their views, well...

YABU.

To those getting annoyed at the op, can I just point out this is a thread about a thread!

Well they should.

oldmum totally not, i am a shite catholic, i last went to mass about a year ago and i have to say that some catholics, im sure along with other religions think they are the best and want everyone to toe their line! Im not saying one is better than the other (in fact i loved the mosque) but agree there are plenty of bonkers christians out there!

Great post fuzzypig didnt mean to generalise, but those threads annoy me. I appreciate not all atheists feel that we're trying to get them into some cult

Sirzy I thought the other thread was about this thread!

Sirzy I thought the other thread was about this thread
always check the datestamp on the OP.
dandelions also started the '...Muslims...' one. Someone else did '...Quakers...' which I thought a bit more stylish

but we aren't all Richard Dawkins y'know
Not even Richard Dawkins (in that he doesn't actually conform to the way people stereotype him).

I never ever buy food that's meant for atheists.

Mosschops .

It's not really that I feel anyone is actively trying to get my to join their particular brand of cult, but I get hacked off when seeing the amount of IMPORTANCE given to religious spokespersons, or to prayers at schools/council meetings, legal matter, political matters etc when most people in this country are not religious (ie do not actually practice their particular religion even if they identify themselves as belonging to it).

I think there should be complete separation of church and state (including no state religious schools) - and religion should be your own private affair.

Atheism is the absence of belief, not a belief in itself.

hth