Comments on: We are all different, in the same way http://www.liveunitarianly.com/we-are-all-different-in-the-same-way/ Committed to freedom, reason and tolerance. Or at least trying to be. Thu, 16 Jun 2011 06:52:11 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: admin http://www.liveunitarianly.com/we-are-all-different-in-the-same-way/comment-page-1/#comment-235 admin Thu, 29 Jul 2010 19:09:35 +0000 http://www.liveunitarianly.com/?p=52#comment-235 Yes, twas. I realise that you weren't sugggesting I am a strident atheist, but actually I have a lot in common with strident atheists and in the right circumstances would quite easily qualify as one. Yes, twas. I realise that you weren’t sugggesting I am a strident atheist, but actually I have a lot in common with strident atheists and in the right circumstances would quite easily qualify as one.

]]> By: Yewtree http://www.liveunitarianly.com/we-are-all-different-in-the-same-way/comment-page-1/#comment-168 Yewtree Thu, 22 Jul 2010 12:39:26 +0000 http://www.liveunitarianly.com/?p=52#comment-168 <em>I find people's insistence that I must secretly believe in something both annoying and somewhat rude</em> Yes I agree. Was it you who left a comment on my <a href="http://stroppyrabbit.blogspot.com/2010/07/im-non-theist.html" rel="nofollow">I'm a non-theist</a> post? I wasn't suggesting that you're a strident atheist, but just that the strident atheists have upped the ante generally, especially by being hostile to liberal religion and being unable to tell the difference between liberal and conservative religion. I find people’s insistence that I must secretly believe in something both annoying and somewhat rude

Yes I agree.

Was it you who left a comment on my I’m a non-theist post? I wasn’t suggesting that you’re a strident atheist, but just that the strident atheists have upped the ante generally, especially by being hostile to liberal religion and being unable to tell the difference between liberal and conservative religion.

]]> By: admin http://www.liveunitarianly.com/we-are-all-different-in-the-same-way/comment-page-1/#comment-162 admin Wed, 21 Jul 2010 19:03:39 +0000 http://www.liveunitarianly.com/?p=52#comment-162 I imagine that it doesn't help that I'm can be sensitive on the topic - I'm comfortable with all the many things that I lack belief in, but find people's insistence that I must secretly believe in something both annoying and somewhat rude. And in the occasion I describe it would have been perfectly fair to say 'I agree with the majority that...' I don't mind being a minority, I just don't like to not count as a real person. I imagine that it doesn’t help that I’m can be sensitive on the topic – I’m comfortable with all the many things that I lack belief in, but find people’s insistence that I must secretly believe in something both annoying and somewhat rude. And in the occasion I describe it would have been perfectly fair to say ‘I agree with the majority that…’ I don’t mind being a minority, I just don’t like to not count as a real person.

]]> By: Yewtree http://www.liveunitarianly.com/we-are-all-different-in-the-same-way/comment-page-1/#comment-159 Yewtree Wed, 21 Jul 2010 15:16:49 +0000 http://www.liveunitarianly.com/?p=52#comment-159 Interesting. I think sometimes there are some things which people can cope with disagreement, and others where they can't, and that different people on different days will be able to cope with different things. But just sweeping it all under the carpet and saying we all think the same is clearly not helpful. I went to a Unitarian group event the other day and said that <a href="http://stroppyrabbit.blogspot.com/2010/07/im-non-theist.html" rel="nofollow">I don't believe in God</a>, but I pray to the presence-of-absence that I don't believe in. People were absolutely fine with this but I wonder if this was because I said I pray to the thing I don't believe in. I think many people (including moderate atheists) are uncomfortable with the "New Atheism" that is rather strident and intolerant of religion - maybe this is the reason for the response you have been getting? I find the concept of Jungian archetypes useful, and also Tillich's theology of God as the Ground of our Being, and <a href="http://andrewjbrown.blogspot.com/search/label/Christian%20Atheism" rel="nofollow">Christian Atheism</a>. Interesting. I think sometimes there are some things which people can cope with disagreement, and others where they can’t, and that different people on different days will be able to cope with different things. But just sweeping it all under the carpet and saying we all think the same is clearly not helpful.

I went to a Unitarian group event the other day and said that I don’t believe in God, but I pray to the presence-of-absence that I don’t believe in. People were absolutely fine with this but I wonder if this was because I said I pray to the thing I don’t believe in.

I think many people (including moderate atheists) are uncomfortable with the “New Atheism” that is rather strident and intolerant of religion – maybe this is the reason for the response you have been getting?

I find the concept of Jungian archetypes useful, and also Tillich’s theology of God as the Ground of our Being, and Christian Atheism.

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