In a blog post entitled 9 questions the atheists find an insult? Polox! Paul Bratrman criticizes Greta Christina for writing An article on daily sexual discrimination The suggestion of people should stop asking some questions to atheists because they are insulting.
Questions are:
- How can you be moral without believe in God?
- How do you have any meaning in your life?
- Doesn’t it take a lot of faith to be an atheist as is the case with a believer?
- Is not atheism just a religion?
- What is the purpose of atheist groups? How can you have a society for something you do not believe in?
- Why do you hate God? (Or “will you not get angry with God?”
- But did you read the Bible, or some of the other Bible, have you heard about some supposed miracle, etc.?
- What if you were wrong?
- Why are you atheists very angry?
Braterman properly indicates that dictating the reasons that any discussion can take place is the disability of the speech on it. He writes that “no one will learn anything from anyone if one of them sets rules about what is allowed for the other side by saying, before the discussion begins.”
I agree. But what really surprised me here was not the suggestion that these questions were insulting, but the way Kristina seemed to think that she has the right to insist on what was allowed to say based on the fact that they are may You find it insulting.
Christina wrote sometimes the questions are asked sincerely, with sincere ignorance of the offensive assumptions behind them. Sometimes they are asked in a negative and negative way, “I just ask questions.” But it is still okay to ask them. “
No, it’s okay to ask them. Just as it is okay to ignore the questions that are asked if you choose it. We all find a crime in different things and this is also good, but no one of us has the right to have our feeling of insult. Life only does not work like this.
But also, I think we need to accept it while writing about this topic – about this ridiculous list of questions – we do it from a huge franchise site because we do not face severe consequences to speak publicly about our atheism. I am sure that in America there is a greater social stigma for atheists more than here in the United Kingdom, but it is still safe to speak frankly about being good without God in the states. At the present time, being a public atheist is dangerous in certain parts of the world as you risk killing the street just because you turn religion. Bangladesh, for example.
To try to dictate what is and there is no civil discourse about something that affects a variety of people who suffer from much larger than any of us, it excels a little, to be honest.
