(Note: The first rule of this post is to not be offended, but look at it as a lesson of perspective. Not everyone is you, and not everyone is me, and so you may completely disagree, but that doesn't mean you can't learn to understand people)
I was in a meeting today, and I noticed someone had a shirt, and it said something I found.. intriguing.
"Who needs RUBY slippers when you have PRAYER."
It amazes me, sometimes. Now, I'm not an Atheist, but also not one inclined to believe that bowing your head and saying a few words will make any difference in the world. I'm also not one inclined to give the credit of everything you and I do to a higher power, because that defeats the entire idea of free will.
Why do my ruby slippers have any less of a chance getting something done then a prayer? I wish for something, it happens, or it doesn't, just as everything else.
Now, you, my friends, are very lucky if you're Christian and American. Why? If you announce your faith as being Christian, you're very unlikely to be attacked for that fact. If you put a Christian bumper sticker, you're car is less likely to be vandalized.
Agnostics like me, we're in a middle ground. Most people doesn't even know what being Agnostic means, so having Agnostic paraphernalia about my car would make any sort of difference in the world with what will happen to it.
Atheists, however, have a lot of issues. Mainly, Christians, and other Theists attack their ideas constantly. There's a comic, which at this moment I can't find, but it has two panels. In the first, there is a Priest screaming at an Atheist insult after insult and hitting him with a cross. In the second panel, the atheist is holding the cross over his knee, about to break it, and the Priest? He's pleadingly saying "Now now, let's have some respect here." It's got things right on the dot, and the fact that so many of us are that immature is ridiculous. Also, Atheist stickers in most big cities almost guarantees your car to be vandalized within a few weeks.
So, I suppose this post is mostly just a rant about how tiring it is for a country based on Freedom of Religion to be so religiously biased... but that's alright.
Live on and be respectful* to others, no matter their faith, or lack there of.
*There is a difference between being respectful, and speaking out about your beliefs. We have Freedom of Speech, but there's nothing that says you can destroy other peoples lives or the stuff they own because you disagree with them.
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