Why can't religious and non religious people exchange ideas without it getting nasty?
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Stewie_G
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Good question. Very good question. I do not have the answer but I think the correct answer may be rooted in some sort of resentment psychology. I am not smart enough to break it down. You may need to talk to stable.
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As an Atheist, it's hard for me to discuss religion with believers, because that's exactly what they are, believers, not knowers. I've hardly met anyone who can argue their religion effectively without using Faith and Belief.
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First of all that isn't allways 100% true. But I think when people are unable to talk civily about things it is b/c they feel their belief is the only correct one. And they are unwilling to listen to anything that does not agree with their belief. Also sometimes it is in the way something is said. The underlying tone of a statement has a lot to do with how people respond to it.
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It can! It's just not as common as the nasty side. If you try it isn't hard to surround yourself and associate with people who can exchange ideas and theories without it getting offensive, but you do have to try. When people have conflicting ideas people get scared of being wrong and/or are so confident that they are right, it literaly angers them that you can't make it work for you, or don't agree.
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I don't think that's a very fair statement. I like to think that I can have an intelligent and non-hostile debate with a religious person, provided that neither of us is trying to actually convince the other that we're right and they're wrong. As long as it's merely a debate and an exchange of thoughts and ideas, it doesn't always have to get nasty. Although it does sometimes...and, in my experience, that happens when the preaching starts. Not necessarily JUST from the religious side, either...
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Emotions A debate can't really be successful when one side can't/won't consider the others points as valid.
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I seems that eventually emotions take over and all common sense and logical thinking is out the door.The minds become cloudy and fair play and finding any sort of common ground is unlikely.
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Because people put so much stake in what they believe in. If you're religious, then it's probably a pretty big thing to you, and if you're really opinionated, then your ideas are probably just as important to you as other people's religion is to them. you mix those two kind of people together (which will inevitably happen, because those are the kind of people that would WANT to discuss it) and there is bound to be disagreement, and people are bound to defend and protect what's important to them, even if it eventually forces them to come down to just 'f*** off, you're stupid!'
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