Atheists, which religion do you despise the least?
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View Poll Results: Atheists, which religion do you despise the least?
Christianity 13 14.29% Islam 14 15.38% Judaism 1 1.10% Hinduism 6 6.59% Buddhism 51 56.04% Other 6 6.59%
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Atheists, which religion do you despise the least?Let me rephrase the question: If you were forced to live with religious people, which group would you choose?
Note that atheism is not a religion. I'm going to go with Christianity.Last edited by thomaskurian89; 21-06-2012 at 01:52. -
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Re: Atheists, which religion do you despise the least?Buddhists
This thread pop's up regularly now with the results usually the same.... Buddhism getting the majority of votes, and then you also tend to get a lot of religious people that vote for their own religion.
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Re: Atheists, which religion do you despise the least?How?(Original post by katyness)
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I wouldn't class myself as atheist, but i don't believe in religion either.
Me personally, if i was to believe in a religion, it would more or less be Buddhism or Taoism... Those are the religions i despise the least.
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Re: Atheists, which religion do you despise the least?Buddhists are atheists for a start.(Original post by + polarity -)
How?
And you don't need a a religion to be a theist.
And as an atheist I don't despise any religion, I just often find myself disliking stuff people claim to do in name of religion.Last edited by heyhey922; 21-06-2012 at 02:14. -
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Re: Atheists, which religion do you despise the least?Oh wow! You mentioned everything I was going to talk about(Original post by heyhey922)
Buddhists are atheists for a start.
And you don't need a a religion to be a theist.
And as an atheist I don't despise any religion, I just often find myself disliking stuff people claim to do in name of religion.
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Re: Atheists, which religion do you despise the least?If their beliefs require them to believe that anybody who doesn't agree with their religion is going to have to be tortured in unimaginable and barbaric ways, then yes, I can see why he would use the word 'despise'. -
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Re: Atheists, which religion do you despise the least?i know quite few athiests and they do not hate religion.
They actually study it enough to understand religion, and even respect some beliefs.
Atheism is not about hating religion, its about not believing in a god/any belief system. Just becaue someone doesn't believe in something, it doesn't mean they can't understand or respect it.
Theophobia is about despizing religion.
However, i'm guessing that buddhism is least hated amongst theophobes/bigots, because of its structure (no creationist god, etc) -
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Re: Atheists, which religion do you despise the least?'theophobes'? You're hilarious. Only yesterday I saw somebody use the word 'neo-Atheist'.(Original post by brunettegirl92)
However, i'm guessing that buddhism is least hated amongst theophobes/bigots, because of its structure (no creationist god, etc)
Can't wait to see the next word people are going to start coining up.
Perhaps Buddhism is the least hated faith because it doesn't show the slightest bit of hatred for non-Buddhists. -
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Re: Atheists, which religion do you despise the least?How can one 'like' anything which puts so much faith in faith rather than solid evidence?(Original post by Hype en Ecosse)
I flipped the question in my head and answered instead "What religion do you like the best?"
Gotta put a positive spin on things.
I can only minimally dislike something such as that. -
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Re: Atheists, which religion do you despise the least?You dislike Christianity the least? You mean the same religion which believes in the god of the Old Testament? The god who advocated the rape of women, the slaughter of infants, and the stoning of homosexuals? You're having a laugh.(Original post by thomaskurian89)
Note that atheism is not a religion. I'm going to go with Christianity. -
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Re: Atheists, which religion do you despise the least?Because Bulletproof Monk was an awesome film, and Buddhists are chill as ****.(Original post by Politricks)
How can one 'like' anything which puts so much faith in faith rather than solid evidence?
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Re: Atheists, which religion do you despise the least?Do you respect Hitler? Sure he may have done nice things, like caring for animals, but after what he did during the war, you wouldn't be able to dig out any respect for him.(Original post by phoenixmiko)
I voted for other. My vote goes to Shintoism. I do not despise any religions. I respect all of them. However, the religion I criticise and debate about the least is Shinto.
Why should Islam or Judeo-Christianity be respected? Both gods of those belief systems are horrendous.
