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I am an atheist, in fact, I describe myself as a Humanist for I believe in the good in people, not mythical beings.

Places to avoid

This is a section for establishments that openly promote religion:

National Chains
Chick-fil-a
In-n-Out Burger
Alaska Airlines (include bible quotes with meals)
Forever 21 (puts John 3:16 on their tags)
Country Bob's sauces (look who the CEO is)
Edwards frozen pies (bible verse on pie tin)
Desert Essence (beauty products)
Estes (aquarium stones)
Food for Life (baked goods)
Brim's Old South (chips and the like)
Daniel Chapter One (look at the mission statement at the bottom)
Curves (gyms, leaves bibles in workout areas)
Aldi Foods (has buybull verses on the inside of egg cartons)

Local
Carter Brothers Bar-B-Que North Carolina

Franchises (companies who don't seem to be religiously affiliated but might have franchisees who do)
Subway

If you know of any others, please send me a message giving me the name of the company and if possible a link to the company's website showing that they promote religious ideas.

For example http://www.incrediblepizza.com/about.php If you look at bullet number 3 under the mission statement. "We operate our business by Christian principles". The alternate of this would be if they have a religious symbol on their products and/or building. In the case of the pizza company, they have the jebus fish on the doors as you walk in.

I have to give credit to the religutards over at http://www.prophecyfellowship.org/archive/index.php/t-147138.html who posted most of these for me to find so easily!

*Megaplex Theatres is owned by the Larry H Miller Corp who gives 10% of their earnings to the LDS church

If you have the name and possibly a website of a company who proseltyzies a religion and would like me to add it, please comment on this post: http://yamipirogoeth.blogspot.com/2010/07/places-to-avoid.html

Wednesday, January 18, 2012

10 Myths about Atheists Part 3

Atheists are aggressive and rude.


Ok, I will admit there are some that are aggressive and rude, however, that can be said of ANY grouping of people. You will always be able to find the aggressive or rude person if you look at enough groups and as those groups get larger those individuals will be easier to find.

Sure I could play the No True Scotsman card, however I'm not going to stoop to such tactics. I realize that there are atheists out there that can be rude and aggressive, hell, I have been before and I'm sure there will be moments in the future where I will be again. Does this mean that I always am? Absolutely not, and that can be said about anyone like that regardless of the group. Sure today they may be aggressive and rude but normally they could be an amazing person.

As far as the aggressive part of that, most atheists are aggressive about the point that religion is not good which is still a pretty passive aggressive stance. Proselytizing however is much more aggressive, not in the way of anger but in that it pushes the idea and puts it out front...most notably mormons on this. Again, this can be found in any group, some form of proselytizing, that will always come off as aggressive, but this is also a subjective thing. To me, I see what mormon missionaries do is extremely aggressive in that they go to your house to tell you about joe, jebus and god and do it in a near if not annoying fashion...but to them, they see it as something important and life changing and needed...so it's all about perspective on the subject.

Ultimately it will come down to this, if you are talking to someone who you know is an atheist and you think they are being aggressive or rude, take a moment to stop, think about what they are saying, not as an assault on you or your religious beliefs but as a person talking to another person, you'll see that it's a lot less aggressive and rude than you previously thought....simply by changing your perspective on the situation...I would also advise fellow atheists to do the same with any religious believer you are speaking with.

Even if you can't do that, at least be civil to each other.
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