Scary as Hell.
Posted on: Tue, 2006-09-19 18:39
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Scary as Hell.
More than 50% of Americans have a “negative” or “highly negative” view of people who don’t believe in God. 70% think it important for presidential candidates to be “strongly religious.”
87% of Americans say they “NEVER doubt the existence of God.”
Only 28% of Americans believe in evolution (and two-thirds of these believe evolution was “guided by God”). 53% are actually creationists.
44% of Americans think Jesus Christ will return in the next 50 years.
28% of Americans believe that every word of the Bible is literally true.
49% believe that it is the “inspired word” of God.
83% of Americans believe that Jesus Christ rose from the dead.
WE ARE A NATION FILLED WITH PSYCOS.
the last one proves your point entirely. and they look down on us.... ha
I definately believe that the majority finds atheists distasteful... but I don't really mind.
Usually, they give up those prejudices as soon as they come to know an atheist personally... and if they don't then they suck so who cares? :evil:
Wow, my mom just called me up and told me this information, and I was going ot make a topic about it, and was actually thinking of titleing it "scary as hell..." haha. But yeah, its scary as hell.
Man..
the world's fucked lol
oh, don't I just love living here. *pout* THIS SUCKS. That's just too many people who don't love me!
[quote=Stephen]I definately believe that the majority finds atheists distasteful... but I don't really mind.
Usually, they give up those prejudices as soon as they come to know an atheist personally... and if they don't then they suck so who cares? :evil:[/quote]
ha. I am constantly reminded that I'm being prayed for every day. Even my close friends who know me personally, don't bother to ask about or question my atheism. I was studying in the chapel today (there is no other quiet place to study) and a priest threatened to give me detention because he said "the chapel is for praying". I came so close to yelling at him. I would've said something along these lines..."Prayer doesn't work, it's been statistically proven. It's just another fucking room. So why don't you realize the truth or drop dead?" I would have, of course, had detention the rest of the year or I would have been thrown out (which is dirty cause I am a senior). To summarize, every theist who listened to me still has prejudices/biases against me.
Then they suck...
lol
Seriously though, If you're nice to people and they still think that you are evil (or whatever) because of your athe-osity, then you know that they probably need to feel that you are bad; esp. those christians who say things like "before I was saved I was a jackass"... If you aren't saved and also not a jackass that means that they were just too short in character to measure up.
(my mind is a lil wobbly at the min. sorry if this is a non-sense post)/
If you need a god constantly checking you, to be good, then you certainly are a jackass. :)
[quote=Derevirn]If you need a god constantly checking you, to be good, then you certainly are a jackass. :)[/quote]
Hah, exactly. If the only reason you are good is because you're looking forward to some sort of reward (in this case, heaven) then you aren't really good at all.
Yep... goodness is (or should be) inherent to everyone. Those that aren't good should be taught how to be, not punished.