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Originally Posted by Livia
Atheists really do spend an inordinate amount of time thinking about religion. If you're not religious, if you have no interest in it, let it go... and allow people to make up their own minds.
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A) I wouldn't take anyone who claims to be atheistic seriously if they
hadn't spent time thinking about it. On the flipside, in my experience, most (note: not ALL) "religious people" have
not spent much time openly thinking about religion (as a whole concept, outside the bounds of their own branch).
B) Not being religious =/= "having no interest" in religion. Anyone who has any interest in sociology, psychology, politics or any other philosophical thought should have "an interest" in religion, its origins and its consequences.
C) "Letting it go", refusing to talk about it, and just letting people get on with making up their own minds more or less ensures that those people will not be able to make up their own minds, because people who ARE religious (their families, friends, other influences) will not stop talking about it / let it go / stop trying to "spread the word". Until they do so, without atheistic persuasion as a counter-balance, people can never truly "make up their own mind", can they?
What you're saying would be fine if religion was purely personal and benign. But it blatantly is not.