Way to go Mississippi

[telecom_goddess]

It's not just the fundamentalist churches who are like that......I've come across many so-called athiests and Satanists who were every bit as nasty/closed-minded/judgemental as fundamentalist Christians can be.

I'm an atheist and while I feel I can be closed minded on the group of christians that insist on trying to convert people and telling them how to live, I have respect for a lot of religions, the ancient ones that have amazing rituals. A lot of the catholic prayers are amazingly beautiful to listen to.

But ones that are newer and created for profit, and just get off on eliminating everything fun form someone's life...no I have no respect for those.

[KellyHabersham]

I'm an atheist and while I feel I can be closed minded on the group of christians that insist on trying to convert people and telling them how to live, I have respect for a lot of religions, the ancient ones that have amazing rituals. A lot of the catholic prayers are amazingly beautiful to listen to.

But ones that are newer and created for profit, and just get off on eliminating everything fun form someone's life...no I have no respect for those.

Oh, I definitely agree with you on much of that......when I'd made my initial post, I'd just been thinking of a bitchy woman whom I'd known from a music-related messageboard, and how she felt that since some Christians had persecuted those of her religious inclination, it meant she was entitled to be nasty and judgemental.