Atheists no longer most distrusted
Posted on: April 23, 2008 - 4:30pm
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Atheists no longer most distrusted
http://www.gallup.com/poll/106516/Americans-NetPositive-View-US-Catholics.aspx
So people like Scientologists less than us now.Discuss.
On a side note,will people please for the love of everything learn atheism is not a religious/spiritual group. A-theism.Say it slow.Now get a dictionary.
Psalm 14:1 "the fool hath said in his heart there is a God"-From a 1763 misprinted edition of the bible
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This is getting redudnant. My patience with the unteachable[atheists] is limited.
Argument from Sadism: Theist presents argument in a wall of text with no punctuation and wrong spelling. Atheist cannot read and is forced to concede.
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It's nice to know that 41% don't give a shit about us, I suppose.
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I bet the 7% who have a postive view of Scientologists are either Scientologists themselves or don't know anything about it. Or maybe their those types that think we should accept everything - up to unwilling human sacrafice.
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I would seriously expect atheists to at least do better than muslim in America.Without getting into a extremist/not debate,surely most Americans would associate muslims with 9/11? Of course christians and muslims are united in their despising of the immoral atheist.
Yip,theists don't care what you believe,as long as you beleive something.That isn't Scientology
Psalm 14:1 "the fool hath said in his heart there is a God"-From a 1763 misprinted edition of the bible
Argument from Sadism: Theist presents argument in a wall of text with no punctuation and wrong spelling. Atheist cannot read and is forced to concede.
Hm. It's interesting to note the ones that generated strong opinions -- the ones with the smallest percentage of "neutrals." Scientologists and fundamentalists/evangelicals.
Of course, Catholics and Atheists are next in line.
"Yes, I seriously believe that consciousness is a product of a natural process. I find that the neuroscientists, psychologists, and philosophers who proceed from that premise are the ones who are actually making useful contributions to our understanding of the mind." - PZ Myers
Most theists think that without theism, people can't be moral. Even theists who "see beauty in all religions" must adopt the belief that Islam is just misguided by fundamentalists, and that most Muslims are good people who, incidentally, are better than atheists because atheists eat babies.
Atheism isn't a lot like religion at all. Unless by "religion" you mean "not religion". --Ciarin
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This study makes me just as giddy as the study that most people hate Israel and Iran more than they hate the US.
"I am an atheist, thank God." -Oriana Fallaci
Does lamb count?
Anyway, as long as Scientologists are taking the brunt of it, I'm happy. Any group of people who resorts to using psychological tricks to pick on the weak just to make a buck are scum. I don't care if they call themselves a religion.
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I generally don't trust results of surveys like that, because so few people actually repond to them.
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i dont trust surveys anymore since i heard Ed Rendell say that he got a phone call asking him (for a survey in Pa about the election) for answer to " Do you think that you would vote more for Hillary now that Ed Rendell has endorsed her?" he said yes. But i mean when a survey calls the person in the survey like that i have lost any trust in surveys...
And bbq'd kittens. Can't forget about the bbq'd kittens.
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The Muslim bit is odd. 17% favorable impression and yet there are very few Muslims in the United States, especially if you subtract the Elijah Muhammed/Louis Farrakhan sect, which most Islamic theologians of the three classical forms would. Obviously most of the 13% for atheists is coming from actual atheists, but who (other than Muslims) actually has a favorable impression of Muslims? I bet most of it is goodhearted atheists giving them the benefit of the doubt.
"The whole conception of God is a conception derived from ancient Oriental despotisms. It is a conception quite unworthy of free men."
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That's NEGATIVE 17%. So 17% unfavorable. Not 17% favorable.
"I am an atheist, thank God." -Oriana Fallaci
I beg to differ. The statistic is "total positive". And for Muslims it's 17%.
"The whole conception of God is a conception derived from ancient Oriental despotisms. It is a conception quite unworthy of free men."
--Bertrand Russell
As delighted as I am that Yankericans hate us less than Scientologists it still shows a real lack of understanding about atheism. 45% still hate us, the same 45% I'd imagine, who believe the Earth to be less than 10,000 years old.
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Ooooh. I thought you meant the "net positive". Them both being 17 and -17 threw me off about what you were saying. My bad.
"I am an atheist, thank God." -Oriana Fallaci
My favorite is a koababitten. Same thing as turducken, but with koalas, babies, and kittens.
Is delicious.
"Yes, I seriously believe that consciousness is a product of a natural process. I find that the neuroscientists, psychologists, and philosophers who proceed from that premise are the ones who are actually making useful contributions to our understanding of the mind." - PZ Myers
I don't trust surveys or Methodists.
Or maybe they think Scientologists and Scientists are the same thing...
Nobody I know was brainwashed into being an atheist.
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