As an agnostic, I don't feel particular respect either for fanatic religious people or fanatic atheistics.
Atheistics are just the opposite than the follower of a religion. Atheistics "believe" God doesn't exist.... That's important, atheistics are convinced there is no God, and that that conviction is the "truth". With that fixed idea, they sometimes act with the same fanatism as the religious people, and they have resorted to violence as well, particularly in association of totalitarian regimes, like we saw in the Spanish Civil War, in the U.S.S.R. or China, to name a few.
As an agnostic, I don't want to be confussed with atheistics at all. Agnostic believe in the "limits of human knowledge" and it is, therefore, a modest position. We just believe "we don't know!".
Fanaticism is born when people "believe to know"....
In the case of religion, I love free-market of religions and ideas. Let people believe whatever they choose, but stop them from controlling the society and force those ideas upon others. And control fanatic atheistics as well.
Pinguin
Edited by pinguin - 25-Sep-2007 at 18:03