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[LegoLord]

"because you don't like them" I believe I said.  You're being a bit stereotypical.  You can disagree with someone without disliking their opinions.  It could just be a preference for your opinion, rather than detest for those of others.

[Ampersand]

You've built a strawman. I don't have a negative opinion of You based on your beliefs, I have a negative opinion on your beliefs, which are an abstraction, and separate from the individual. Irrelevant, to me, in interpersonal relationships. I am a liberal, who found that the best friend I ever had was the staunchest conservative in my debate class. My family is absolutely full of catholics. People are not bigots because they disagree with you, not even bigots because they want to attempt to share beliefs or lack thereof.

[LegoLord]

People are not bigots because they disagree with you, not even bigots because they want to attempt to share beliefs or lack thereof.

That's what I said.  Now, what this thread is full of is most definitely not simply sharing beliefs.  There's been too much hostility and mocking from either side.

[Ampersand]

My apologies. My initial interpretation of your posting lead me to think that you were trying to paint one side of the debate as bigots exclusively.

[MrWiggles]

[inaluct]

I think that that comic sums it up pretty damn awesomely.

[Jackrabbit]

Ha, I laughed really hard at that.

I'm still neutral.

[Idiom]

That flashlight does not illuminate the entire room and we are still trying to find the walls.

Infernal thread. I thought it was dead already.

You've built a strawman.

That's what I hate about these. I swear every forum would be at near peace if posts threads with any religion related words were deleted automatically.

Gamble with your lives as you will, I don't care. When I care is when you try to gamble with other people's lives. Leave the fates be or there might well be blood on your hands.

Further away from anything directed at individuals, do you think religious and non-religious people on the whole have different personality types?

[Ampersand]

I concur, the thread should be closed down post-haste. I just wouldn't stand for being called a bigot.

[Jackrabbit]

I too agree with this course of action

[SolarShado]

Gamble with your lives as you will, I don't care. When I care is when you try to gamble with other people's lives. Leave the fates be or there might well be blood on your hands.

If this meant what i think it does ("keep out of other people's business, religion wise"), i agree completely.

Further away from anything directed at individuals, do you think religious and non-religious people on the whole have different personality types?

I'd guess that in general, yes, they do. I know that i, as an athiest, am a very inquisitive, sceptical person. I don't like to make or refer to stereotypes, but most "devout" believers, of any religion,  seem to accept what they are told (at least by their church/minister) without question, in my (admittedly quite limited) experience.

Of course, there are exceptions to every stereotype (not great wording, i know, it's late). most of the rest of my family are religious, to some extent, but they're mostly, open-minded people.

[Idiom]

I'd guess that in general, yes, they do.

The size and presence of an emergency bag in the back of a person's car I've noticed seems to have some correlation. Though I've never bothered to note anything about that beyond just mentally.

[SolarShado]

I'd guess that in general, yes, they do.

The size and presence of an emergency bag in the back of a person's car I've noticed seems to have some correlation. Though I've never bothered to note anything about that beyond just mentally.

Just for curiosity's sake:
What correlation exactly? Emergency bag = non-relgious or the other way 'round?

EDIT: you can add me as an athiest without an emergency bag, BTW

[MrWiggles]

See now. I'm athiest, but I have a well kept emergency bag.

First Aid Kit
Blanket
Flashlight
Jumper Cables
reflector triangles
emergency flares
masturbatory aid
jack
12 volt air pump
lug cross wrench
Two 2-ton stands
kat litter
and, the strangest of them all...
A full size spare.

[inaluct]

masturbatory aid

TYPICAL GODLESS ATHEIST

MASTURBATING IN TIMES OF EMERGENCY