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Who is more self rightoues? [Spirituality & Religion]

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Religious believers
Atheists
Agnostics
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I admit I'm pretty self righteous in regard to agnostics. This fence sitting disturbs me.
SatanBurger · 36-40, F
I feel like believers are more self righteous. Despite my atheist writings on here, I've been friends with a lot of religious people. I always give people a chance but my encounters have made me wary of the literal religious types. Too many things to get into here but they act strange sometimes. There's this regular person underneath it all but then they fear their literal God so there's this other half that doesn't match with the other half. It's like a weird split personality to me.

In other areas religious people are always trying to take away LGBT rights, referring to them as animals. I've actually ran into one atheist on here that's anti LGBT but he uses evangelist pseudo science sources as the basis for their claims. It's strange to me the way religious people behave.

You have the child witch hunts in Africa, often targeting the outcast of the group. This is also led by Evangelist preachers from America and from Africa.

Aside from Christians, you have Muslim leaders who speak about women in a derogatory manner. Where stoning and blasphemy laws are the most prevalent (don't get me wrong, Christians would have their blasphemy law in America if it was their choice.)

Then after all that, a common thing I hear is from any monotheist of any religion, get together to say that if anyone doesn't believe in their God, then we're monsters. They don't believe people can be moral without the bible (even despite when their own does monstrous stuff.) They then say "oh those are not real Christians, those are not real _________" insert any religion you want.

So yeah they don't get how self righteous that all sounds. To the rest of us, what they say their beliefs are and how they actually act are two different things. Partially why I tend to shun them.
reflectingmonkey · 51-55, M
lately there is a lot of hairsplitting about the term "atheist" because it can either be defined as an absence of belief in the existence of god or a disbelief in the existence of god. to me seeing atheism as an absence of belief makes the terms agnostic and atheist overlap and is therefore less useful. so to make things simple, lets say that atheist believe there is no god, believers believe there is a god and agnostics affirm that they do not know. in these definitions of terms I would say both believers and atheists both claim to have knowledge that they do not have and are because of this boastful. maybe in this sense the believers are the worst because they will actually push this pretention so far as to actually explain to others what the creator likes, dislikes and thinks which is the most extreme lack of humility a person could have. the true humble person here is the agnostic who simply answers " I am just a simple human, I cannot know such things"
newjaninev2 · 56-60, F
@reflectingmonkey[quote]the terms agnostic and atheist overlap[/quote]

1. There's no proof that gods exist

2 there's no proof that gods don't exist

3. There's no compelling necessity to postulate gods, and the postulation explains nothing... it tries to merely explain everything away.

4. Therefore I have no gods.

Can you point out the self-righteousness in there?
reflectingmonkey · 51-55, M
@newjaninev2 although you have not stated it clearly I imagine you refer to yourself as a atheist under the definition of atheist that I specifically said I was not using in order to avoid overlaping of meaning. so by the definitions of terms that I chose to use and made clear before my statement I would call you a agnostic. So no, there is no self-righteousness in your statements. you do realise that in a philosophical discussion, when you want to use a term that might cause ambiguity because there are different definitions to this term, one must clearly state which definition he is using, and I have done so clearly. its very simple: I consider stating that there is no god to be beyond the expertise of any man and if you agree with this then I would call you an agnostic and if you claim that there is no god and that you are certain of this I would then call you atheist and self-righteous, but I don't think its the case.
newjaninev2 · 56-60, F
@reflectingmonkey [quote]I would call you a agnostic[/quote]

I'm an agnostic atheist (agnostic is an adjective... its use as a noun, while common, leads to confusion).
Twenty years ago - maybe even ten years ago, I would have said Religious believers were more self-righteous. Today, I think it's atheists. I am a believer, but I'm not religious. And although I am a believer, I gotta tell you I think agnostics are the most level-headed of the three, because they don't have an axe to grind.
ButterFly2023 · 18-21, M
@Mamapolo2016 I'm an atheist myself but you have a point really.
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Atheists are, solely because they think they suddenly evolved by believing in nothing
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That depends on each person. Not of their believes.
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@SW-User this!
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ButterFly2023 · 18-21, M
@SW-User It's a general question.
Poet123 · 26-30, M
MartinTheFirst · 22-25, M
Such a weird question.

 
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