Degrees of despising...

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Degrees of despising...

Post by JimC » Sat Apr 17, 2010 12:46 am

Jehovah's Witnesses came to the door today. They were met with my standard answer: "I'm an atheist, goodbye"...

It made me wonder who they would depise the most...

Atheists?
Members of polytheistic religions? ( for example Hindus)
Non-christian mono-theists? (Muslims and Jews)
Liberal, Protestant christians?
Catholics?
Fundamentalist evangelicals and the like?
Seventh Day Adventists?
Mormons?

It would be interesting to draw a web of relative despising... ;)
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Re: Degrees of despising...

Post by Xamonas Chegwé » Sat Apr 17, 2010 12:48 am

You missed Satanist. :tea:
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Post by JimC » Sat Apr 17, 2010 12:50 am

Xamonas Chegwé wrote:You missed Satanist. :tea:
Damn! :lay:

I always forget the Satanists, and they get quite teary about it, too...
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Re: Degrees of despising...

Post by maiforpeace » Sat Apr 17, 2010 1:45 am

According to Pew, atheists are more distrusted than muslims, so that's pretty bad. We are despised as much as Satanists.
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Re: Degrees of despising...

Post by Azathoth » Sat Apr 17, 2010 1:46 am

Satanist is the best one to tell the jehovahs. They get the fear and go away
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Re: Degrees of despising...

Post by Ameri Boi » Sat Apr 17, 2010 2:07 am

I live with one. In short, anyone whom isn't a Jehovah's Witness is equally sanctimonious :biggrin:
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Re: Degrees of despising...

Post by JimC » Sat Apr 17, 2010 4:39 am

maiforpeace wrote:According to Pew, atheists are more distrusted than muslims, so that's pretty bad. We are despised as much as Satanists.
Who is Pew?

Do you mean distrusted by JWs, or by the population at large?
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