QUOTE(Leon be here now @ Jul 13 2017, 05:05 PM)
Sorry if I offend any Atheists / Christians out there.
Yeh religion is a touchy issue, you can swap it out with born bread Muslim vs Free Thinker as an option.
And apologist in advance if I offend any Free Thinker / MuslimĀ out here too.
My thinking at the time was my personal experience born and bread Religion has been raised one way under their circumstance,
tens to be staunch on their view, their religion is the right religion etc...
and a Atheists / Free thinker has the ability to choose to be to remain as they are or to get involved in a particular religion if they choose.
Let me try to find another analogy:
Its like saying
Person A only has Malaysian passport, and can only work and live in Malaysia.
Person B has Malaysian passport, and also Singapore PR, Person B can live/work in both countries as they choose.
But then Person A keeps saying, how good Malaysia is compared to Singapore, and all the benefits that Malaysia has compared to Singapore
To a degree they start to mock Person B for living/working in Singapore.
In retrospect I should stay away from the religion topic, or even this Malaysia vs Singapore stuff.
As I have already explained I have options, and there are many ways to mine, all comes with pros and cons.
No single way is the right or better way.
And people should respect that.
And that's why I'm saying that your analogy is flawed.
My understanding of what you were trying to say is - those who do not have the luxury of choice should not claim superiority over the those who have, correct? If we apply that that argument to your analogy, then what you're then saying is that born and bred Christians do not have the choices that Atheists do, and hence should not claim that they are more superior than the latter. I don't know about you, but as far as I know, there was and is always a choice between whether you want to exercise your Christian faith or not, same goes for most other religions. And that works the same way for Atheists, no? So how can you justify that your analogy is correct when the fundamentals are flawed, to begin with. The born and bred Christians, as you may call them, have as much of a choice as the Atheists do, be it personally or legally. In fact, if you would've done proper research, most Atheists now are either once born Christians or had Christian heritages. So to say, that Christians don't have a choice? That's not so much being ignorant as being offensive.
tl;dr - not an apple to apple comparison. But if you claim that it is, then it would be offensive, to say the least.
Disclaimer: Jack2 and I don't have the best relationship on LYF, so I'm definitely not writing these to spite you, or to defend him whatsoever.This post has been edited by dc_talkz: Jul 13 2017, 06:12 PM