Thanks again to maladaptive....

[conuly]

Here's the question. I know I'm probably a bit biased when it comes to religion because I'm not religious. At all. And then you see these fundies, and even though you *know* the vast majority of religious people are perfectly reasonable people... you end up twisting your views a little to see all religious people as potentially creepy and illogical and, well... insane. In a bad way. After all, they all believe in weird things that can't be proven, right? Right? It's all fascinating, but... different.

But I'm told that many religious people have the same views about non-religious people. And I know full well that most people on either side don't recognize their own bias when they walk right into it.

So, here's my question: Are there any atheist/agnostic fundies out there I haven't encountered before? Because I'd like to see, just for my own edification. I'm not sure if my belief that there aren't any is because, well, there aren't any, or if it's because I just don't see them as much/clearly.

(Oh, and click the scary link. Thanks)

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[rainbow-goddess.livejournal.com]

I know an Aspie who is a fundie athiest. (He's not on LJ, though.) He truly believes that atheism is the only true path, the only sensible path, and he is constantly trying to push his views on anyone who expresses any kind of religious belief, whether Christian, pagan, Buddhist, Moslem or any other kind of religion. He is constantly trotting out religious horror stories, like the mentally ill woman who killed her four children because she believed God was talking to her and telling her to do it, as proof of how evil religion is.

When I told him that just as he doesn't like people pushing their religious beliefs on him, other people don't like him pushing his non-religious beliefs on them, he said, "That's different. I'm right, and they're wrong."

[conuly]

*cracks up*

Oh, that's funny. Of course, I certainly think that about a lot of things, but it's really a bit tactless to admit to it, isn't it?