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TKDB
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  • Deputy tases woman, 70, while trying to make arrest at her home

    @Dee

    You're crying awfully hard over a 70 old criminal, are you? 

    I feel sorry for her family.

    Because the lady, and her grandson are great examples of the garbage that cities across the country, criminal wise, have to put up with?

    Race on race gun violence, murder, kids having to grow up poor and in poverty.

    Because the adults would rather commit the above crimes against each other, instead of being lawful citizens, and being lawful towards their families and themselves.
    Plaffelvohfen
  • Debating Face to Face, or online?

    Which of the two makes for a more educational or enlightening experience?

    Have some noticed how comfortable, that the millions of people, have become by debating other's, via Social Media, or on some online websites?

    You can turn on MSNBC, CNN, and some of the other Liberal news media outlets, and watch as they are engaging in one sided debates?

    You can go to this or that website, and some are engaging in one sided debates as well.

    You have millions of families, across the Globe, having one sided debates, because Hate, Discrimination, and Anger, are easy to teach to others about, from behind their closed doors, when it comes to the One Sided Debate Method.

    So what's easier for some to do, to get their arguments across? 

    Create one sided self serving debates, online, via online debating?

    Or debating face to face?

    I think that some for the most part, are going to lean on their online "debate practices," because debating face to face, is a whole other type of a debate practice.




    smoothiePlaffelvohfenBlastcat
  • Are some of the Atheists on the internet, protesting Religion in a fair and equal way?

    @Phil413

    I'm pro kid, pro family, pro community, pro Religious Freedom and pro Non Religious as well.

    I believe that anyone should be able to believe in Religion, as long as the participants are peaceful.

    And when it comes to the various religious buildings, that I have gone to, the Religious participants were all peaceful, and not discriminating against anyone.

    If some religious individuals chose to ridicule, or discriminate against, the non Religious individuals, then they have a self created discrimination problem.


    "@TKDB- how can you protest against God/religion if you don't believe in it's existence?
    By protesting, you are inadvertently acknowledging it's existence.
    My point here is that this type of protest is moot."

    Do you view the Religious protesting being by some of the Internet based non Religious individuals as moot?





    대왕광개토
  • Are some of the Atheists on the internet, protesting Religion in a fair and equal way?

    @Dee

    (Do you know if the individuals who conducted the study, are maybe non Religious individuals, themselves?)

    "Do you believe in atheists? Distrust is central to anti-atheist prejudice."

    Author information

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    Department of Psychology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC. will@psych.ubc.ca

    Abstract

    "Recent polls indicate that atheists are among the least liked people in areas with religious majorities (i.e., in most of the world). The sociofunctional approach to prejudice, combined with a cultural evolutionary theory of religion's effects on cooperation, suggest that anti-atheist prejudice is particularly motivated by distrust. Consistent with this theoretical framework, a broad sample of American adults revealed that distrust characterized anti-atheist prejudice but not anti-gay prejudice (Study 1). In subsequent studies, distrust of atheists generalized even to participants from more liberal, secular populations. A description of a criminally untrustworthy individual was seen as comparably representative of atheists and rapists but not representative of Christians, Muslims, Jewish people, feminists, or homosexuals (Studies 2-4). In addition, results were consistent with the hypothesis that the relationship between belief in God and atheist distrust was fully mediated by the belief that people behave better if they feel that God is watching them (Study 4). In implicit measures, participants strongly associated atheists with distrust, and belief in God was more strongly associated with implicit distrust of atheists than with implicit dislike of atheists (Study 5). Finally, atheists were systematically socially excluded only in high-trust domains; belief in God, but not authoritarianism, predicted this discriminatory decision-making against atheists in high trust domains (Study 6). These 6 studies are the first to systematically explore the social psychological underpinnings of anti-atheist prejudice, and converge to indicate the centrality of distrust in this phenomenon."


    "Atheists are one of the most disliked groups in America. Only 45 percent of Americans say they would vote for a qualified atheist presidential candidate, and atheists are rated as the least desirable group for a potential son-in-law or daughter-in-law to belong to. Will Gervais at the University of British Columbia recently published a set of studies looking at why atheists are so disliked. His conclusion: It comes down to trust."

    Gervais and his colleagues presented participants with a story about a person who accidentally hits a parked car and then fails to leave behind valid insurance information for the other driver. Participants were asked to choose the probability that the person in question was a Christian, a Muslim, a rapist, or an atheist. They thought it equally probable the culprit was an atheist or a rapist, and unlikely the person was a Muslim or Christian. In a different study, Gervais looked at how atheism influences people’s hiring decisions. People were asked to choose between an atheist or a religious candidate for a job requiring either a high or low degree of trust. For the high-trust job of daycare worker, people were more likely to prefer the religious candidate. For the job of waitress, which requires less trust, the atheists fared much better."


    ZeusAres42
  • Are some of the Atheists on the internet, protesting Religion in a fair and equal way?

    @ZeusAres42

    "Since this atheism movement exists in no place other than your own mind @TKDB then no."

    https://www.conservapedia.com/Decline_of_the_atheist_movement

    "Decline of the atheist movement"

    "Numerous atheists have declared that the "atheist movement is dead" or that it is dying.[2] In 2019, a writer at Freethought Blogs wrote: "Last month I looked at some postmortems of the atheist movement...".[3] See also: Morale of the atheist movement"

    "Division is widespread among atheists (see: Atheist factions)."

    "Before the atheist movement died/declined, various atheists attempted to change the public's perception concerning atheism, but they were largely unsuccessful (see: Attempts to positively rebrand atheism and Atheism and public relations).,

    "After the Elevatorgate controversy in 2011 (a controversy involving new atheist Richard Dawkins and feminist Rebecca Watson), which caused a significant rift within the atheism movement, atheist Jen McCreight and the website Atheist Revolution indicated that the atheist movement was essentially dead/destroyed.[4] See also: Atheism and women and Atheism and sexism"

    In 2017, atheist David Smalley has indicated that leftist/progressive atheists were "killing the atheist movement" through being contentious and divisive (see also: Atheist factions).[5] Smalley indicated that the atheist movement was disintegrating.[6] Former new atheist PZ Myers, who subscribes to progressive politics, says he is no longer a member of the atheist movement.[7]

    In terms of politics and atheist infighting, there is friction between right-wing atheists (and right of center atheists) and secular leftist. See: Atheism and politics and Western atheism, schisms and political polarization

    The website Atheism and the City wrote about the 2018 cancellation of the first major atheist conference to be held in New York City:

    But none of this is going to happen now because the event has just been canceled. The reasons why are complicated, but it started out difficult enough. The atheist community has splintered into a million shards in recent years. There are the atheist feminists and the atheist anti-feminists, the social justice warrior atheists and the anti-social justice warrior atheists. The pro-PC atheists and the anti-PC atheists. There are pro-Trump atheists and anti pro-Trump atheists. Atheists are split over gamergate, elevatorgate, whether we should organize, or whether we should even call ourselves atheists at all. The divisions go on and on.[8]

    In 2018, the atheist PZ Myers quotes an atheist activist who declares: "It’s quite depressing that movement Atheism has turned into such a joke. I valued it so much once."[9] Furthermore, Myers says the atheist movement is in "shambles" and this is "quite depressing" for him.[10]

    The atheist activist Hemant Mehta argues that there never was an atheist movement and that people who wanted their to be an atheist movement wrongly assumed "there’s some list of beliefs everyone has to subscribe to." (See also: Schools of atheist thought)[11] Similarly, a blogger at Freethought Blogs indicates: "To be honest, I never saw "atheism” as much of a “movement” as an uneasy coalition, which may, in fact, now be unraveling."[12]

    The atheist movement saw a number of setbacks during the latter portion of the 20th century and beyond in terms of historical events/trends (See: Causes of desecularization). As a result, it has lost a considerable amount of confidence (see also: Atheists and the endurance of religion).

    Atheist organizations have experienced large drops in donations to their organizations (see: Atheist organizations and fundraising). 

    @ZeusAres42

    There are multiple mentions of the words "Atheist movement," from the above article.




    PlaffelvohfenZeusAres42Dee

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