Man and God -Times Online

Just anther example of how people NOT subscribing to a believers faith is somehow 'persecution'

Man and God -Times Online: "Man and God
How should faith respond to the onslaught of atheism?"

My response:

I am an agnostic atheist. I am not militant nor am I a 'profit' of godlessness... I do not claim that god 'does not' or 'can not' exist. I simply see no evidence that would lead me to a belief in god. That is all.

I do not preach an atheist doctrine (whatever that might be), I do not strap a bomb to my chest with the intent of killing others in the name of no-god. I do not ask others to stop believing in their god. I do not ask others to stop worshiping their god. I do not ask others to refrain from praying to their god. I DO request that people not force their personal beliefs on me whether through preaching to me or making laws intended to make me act as they think I should based on their arrogant belief that, if there is a god, they have the ability to know what that god wants from me.

But apparently, my not wanting others to feel justified in shoving their beliefs in my face makes me militant. Apparently, asking others to keep their pray privately or with others in their church and NOT in the schools I pay for and send my children to is trying to take their rights away. Apparently, expecting someone to respect that I am NOT a christian and wish me a happy holiday instead of Merry Christmas means that I am intolerant to their religion, but if I wish them a Happy Holiday instead of Merry Christmas I am persecuting them.

The very fact that the author listed as evidence of this vast atheist conspiracy the fact that a politician was honest about not having a belief in a god as opposed to lying about it to make he and his 'feel' better says a lot more about his religion and values than any atheist could ever say.

The sad fact is that the best argument against christianity are the believers themselves. It is not what the atheists are saying that is problematic to the theist... it is what they are doing... pointing out the disparity between what the religions put forth in their PR pamphlets and how their adherents actually act.

It is simple... I could not care less what someone believes... and if they are not telling me all about it, I would have nothing to say at all on the subject.