Monday 8 February 2010 The Roots Of Hatred And Bigotry Against Atheists

The Roots Of Hatred And Bigotry Against Atheists
Austin Cline (Approximately.com Agnosticism/Atheism) scarcely asked about the start of the wickedness and prejudice directed at atheists in the U.S. He annotations,

The significantly hatred towards atheists in America can probably be traced to two pertinent factors: America's view of itself as a serious nation entrusted with a special momentary from God and America's fight versus communism in the Wariness War.I pin down he's decent to citation these ancient factors, as they are certainly things. Still, I pin down that offer are deeper psychological processes leave-taking on. Austin mentions scapegoating and refers implicitly to others at the same time as agitation of modernity and loss of real. These bring us nearer to what is accepted thing.

For the utmost part, I'm not so constant that wickedness and prejudice versus atheists is so narrative from any other procession where an out-group has been demonization and dehumanized. I be aware of that the stage of the specialty is that atheists restrain been despicable so we are narrative. We restrain ever been superficial as fading to digest with a standard that has been equated with main beliefs (i.e., serious belief).

To the accepted that the wickedness and prejudice we face differs from that erudite by other minority groups, this is accepted a achieve of our very soul substance viewed as a imperil. The modestly way we can be tolerated is if we put off stagnant and slight. As rapidly as we open our mouths, we put together a hazard to an slowly inexcusable belief mode.

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