Atheists are the most hated minority in the United States.
Source for this claim, please.
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No, that is a political extremist who does not think that individual choice in matters of preference should be allowed, who also, accidentally, does not collect stamps.
LMAO No, it is not. Way to attempt (and fail) to dodge that one.
Atheists are the most hated minority in the United States. Yeah, it is just a trend. People want to be despised and hated.
1. Source? 2. LOL
Has it ever occurred to you, or have you ever considered that there might be reasons to be skeptical of the overarching religious paradigm of our western culture?
That you are asking this question shows that you completely missed the point of this entire thread.
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Source for the claim of atheists being the most hated minority in the United States
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Dismissing atheism as just a "youthful trend" is just as insane as dismissing homosexuality as just as "youthful trend". Why would you WANT to become hated and despised?
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Dismissing atheism as just a "youthful trend" is just as insane as dismissing homosexuality as just as "youthful trend". Why would you WANT to become hated and despised?
No one in this thread is dismissing all atheism as a youthful trend; we're just complaining about the people who claim atheism because they're rebelling or because their friends did.
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Dismissing atheism as just a "youthful trend" is just as insane as dismissing homosexuality as just as "youthful trend". Why would you WANT to become hated and despised?
You are missing my point. I'm not "dismissing" atheism as a youthful trend. I'm saying I'm worried that that is what is happening.
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Dismissing atheism as just a "youthful trend" is just as insane as dismissing homosexuality as just as "youthful trend". Why would you WANT to become hated and despised?
No one in this thread is dismissing all atheism as a youthful trend; we're just complaining about the people who claim atheism because they're rebelling or because their friends did.
Who are claiming that they are atheists because it is a youthful trend? How is it a youthful trend to be the most hated minority in the states?
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/facepalm
Do you even know how to read? I mean, seriously, I do not understand how someone with the literacy of even a five-year-old could get any of that from what I said.
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Do you even know to write, or remember what you have written? You have explicitly said that "I'd wager it's a bit more trendy now, largely thanks to the Internet."
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"a bit more trendy now" =/= "strictly a youthful trend"
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"a bit more trendy now" =/= "strictly a youthful trend"
That's fair, but I'd still say it was implied.
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Except that it wasn't.
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"a bit more trendy now" =/= "strictly a youthful trend"
That's fair, but I'd still say it was implied.
It was not implied at all. My OP was saying that I fear that it is becoming a youthful trend.
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