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The really crazy and unyielding type of Christian tends to think that a strong connection with God and Jesus are the only reasons that a person wouldn't just go around acting on their base instincts- probably because whenever they have the urge to do so it's always that faith of thiers that causes them to step back for a moment and realize that it's probably a bad idea.

It seems to be a bit of a "everyone is like me" thing except of course the obvious difference in beliefs. Since the simple way of putting that difference into words is "atheist's don't believe in God," or rather "Atheists don't have God" it's a simple assumption that they don't have any of the things that "God" 'gives' the believers.


Continuing my trend of picking out some of my fairly decent postson whatever topic here's something I wrote up about why so many Christians think Atheists are immoral... well, monsters.




To say you "don't believe in God" is to them a declaration that everything they connect with God is wrong and that you won't be having any involvement with it.

It's rather obvious that they don't consciously think of it in these terms and that it's really rather silly when brought to light. Unfortunately silly things can have a rather nasty impact on society when taken seriously.
Whle they aren't the majority they're identified as part of the group that is the majority and subsequently they're rarely rebuked by their fellow Christians.

What is basically required is for all of the relatively sane Christians to speak up and say "How dare you call that a Christian belief! You're either stupid or insane but either way you're no Christian."
Rather than seeing it as just someone's belief (and therefore too sacred to touch,) this sort of thing has to start being seen as a claim that 'this is what any good Christian believes,' which is really rather offensive given the sort of things people claim to be Christian beliefs.