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Atheism or Just Anti-Christian? Questions from an open-minded Christian

I might get trolled, but whatever. I'm trying ask this as openly and as least-antagonistic as possible.

Has atheism simply become an anti-christian sentiment? I understand that atheism is different and personal for everyone, just like religion is, but I've noticed recently (within the past several years) that many atheist statements specifically target Christianity, rather than religion as a whole. And I'm not just talking about Reddit. Much of society (specifically the younger demographic), appears to be open towards Judaism, Islam, and other religious demographics, but less so toward Christianity. Is this a result of changes in culture? Or the fact that Christianity has been the dominant religion of Europe and the U.S. for such a long time? Christian, atheist, religious, non-religious, whatever: tell me what you guys think.

As some background: I am a Christian. I was raised in a Christian family (Catholic, actually. Not Catholic anymore.), and have more or less believed in God and Jesus Christ my entire life. It was never forced on me; rather, it was just a way of living. I try to live a Christian life by being open-minded and loving to everyone, no matter what their beliefs, gender, sexuality, or nationality are, and I don't try to shove my beliefs down other people's throats. I am a lover of science, and see evolution as an incredibly plausible hypothesis for the origin of life. But I try to balance scientific skepticism with the idea that we will never truly understand everything in our time on Earth, and think it's this mindset has made these two dueling worlds work for me.

Posted Dec 2, 2011, 3:45 AM UTC

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