[graciegirl]

I have read this thread and I have picked the people I like the most. Most of those have NOT commented on this thread but a few have shown amazing strength and patience in the face of being taunted about their beliefs.

This is all new to me. I have yet to live anywhere where people were disdained for their faith.

Part of our morality is based on trying to do good and avoiding bad. It keeps most of us law abiding. I always trust people with a moral compass more with my possessions and my feelings than I do people who look down on rule followers.

I have to think that these attacks, and that is what they are, by people who call church goers and believers in God ignorant and arrogant may be in part due to a tiny feeling somewhere that they could be wrong and they might be missing something. Or maybe they just don't care about anyone's feelings other than their own.

I don't know. But I know I feel much worse now knowing what I know about some of my fellow villagers.

The Atheists and Agnostics that I know and admire do not try to hurt or criticize people who think differently than they do.