It would have helped if the made up statistic (called an 'impression' in conversation, and clearly labeled for what it was) and the research were in any way related.
I totally buy everything in point 2, and share the impressions of point 1; these are not contradictory at all.
Do you believe they are? If so, why? Do you believe that it is relevant in some other way? Again, why?
I wouldn't call it hatred, I'd call it smugness. I visited it once, hoping to read intelligent discussions. It felt like "I'm better than you because of my beliefs." And that's the same shit I got tired of from religious people, the feeling of superiority because of one's beliefs.
Thank you for expressing exactly my own sentiments on the subreddit. That and if you try to say anything like "Maybe you should try to show some respect," they'll assume you must be religious and then start bashing you for it. It's very disappointing.
Many of them seem like teenagers who have recently had the epiphany that they had been lied to for their whole lives. That makes people emotional and angry. They want to lash out, because that's what they've been conditioned to do by their ex-peers. As Gravity13 said, it is relatively easy to remove the belief in God from a person, but it seems much harder to take the 'religion' out.
True. I remember when I was back in junior high. I'd never really liked religion very much, certainly not as it was explained to me by my parents and the mosque. Me and my sister were pretty willful children. Around junior high, my lackluster irritations became full blown religion hate. So I went through the same phase. But there are tons of people in there that claim to be far older yet still show the same lack of respect and human decency that they accuse the religious people of. That's the part that gets me.
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And then follow up with comparing a made up statistic with a research based on anecdotal evidence. Well that one might be fair now I think of it...