
Originally Posted by
svwillmer
Both of them argue the point very strongly against each other, they both have a deep feeling of hostility to each other (shame on the religious ones who do), but most funnily they both fail to realise that there is one thing they do have in common-they are both as stubborn as one another.
should your title read Atheist vs Religious.
because A-theist and A-Religious are the same thing,
so I'll take it, as a typo.
I thing you'll find in the majority that is, that atheist do not hold any hatred towards the religious, atheist are after all humanist too, they only hold an abhorrence towards the disease that the religious are inflicted with, they are all unwilling victims so can not be held responible, even the priests and preachers are effected by the same virus, they do not understand that they are passing on the disease, the reason atheist counter argue, is in the hope the religious will shake of this illness, and begin to think for themselves again. contradicting what is written in the holy books using the very same book, and using clear thought to put over a point, could help the inflicted, but it is not the goal of the atheist, the only way an inficted person can get cured is by his/her own realization.
the reason most atheist debate the religious is to better understand the disease, no amount of good sense is going to make the theist change his mind, but putting a few doubts in the mind of a thiest can start them on the road to recovery.