Beliefnet
The theist concern for the TRUTHTM is a critical difference that causes many problems. If you have the TRUTHTM then by definition anything that does not comply with that TRUTHTM
is necessarily inferior and/or wrong. You are still under the delusion
that an atheist or even a rational theist that thinks differently from
you has a wrong belief, and that therefore considers their belief to be
the TRUTHTM and all other beliefs inferior and/or wrong.
For
most atheists and some rational theists this is simply not the case. A
rational approach to living merely says this paradigm works for me, and
I will therefore follow this path. Others are not necessarily wrong or
inferior, they are just on a different path to a common goal, that is
getting along with all people and things in a responsible way.
As
long as belief in God is subservient to getting along with others in a
responsible way, I have no issue with that belief. But if that belief
is that God takes precedence over others and that those others are wrong
and/or inferior, then we have a major problem.
It is those and only those theists that don't give the benefit of the
doubt that are a problem for their fellows, theist or not.
Unfortunately, those theists are all too common and pose a real threat
to atheists, and rational theists, and non-theistic believers in other
truths.
The Hippocratic Oath
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