I don't want to put words in his mouth, but I am quite certain that is not the answer he would give given his previous responses. Atleast, it is not the response that most Chrisian theolgians would give. Christ's teachings are not right because the Bible says so. His teachings are right because they agree with the objective moral law. The main point I was attempting to make in my previous post is that this objective moral law is then taken as a foundational truth that needs no further justification.

I find that on the internet forums, people are very respectful to different genders, races, and sexual orientations, but there is something about the belief in God that pushes some (certainly not all) people to become extremely bigoted, more generalizing, and overall more hateful and hostile to this specific group of people. 

Take this random quote:

"I've noticed Christians are hypocrites."

What if we replaced "Christains" with another group:

"I've noticed African Americans are hypocrites."

It seems more hateful and politically incorrect, right? So why is it that people with a belief in God are seemingly excluded for the political corectness that help protects so many other groups?

I know certain groups of people were oppressed over time, but there should be a call for equality, not revenge......

Maybe I'm just too sensitive, but it just comes off that way to me......

This is a very simplistic assumption you have there. Maybe you should think a little harder on why that is.

Sometimes things are that simple and it isn't an assumption.  I've seen people on several occasions get furious when God is brought up.  If people truly he is just a fictional character like King Arthur, then why do they get so angry?  If I said that I believe in Spiderman, many people would just assume that I am nuts or a child.  There have been several times in my life I have said that I believe in God and have been called an idiot and told things like F--- God, he doesn't exist and hasn't helped you in any way.  Why is this?

I'll tell you why.  I think that many people truly HOPE that there isn't a God so that they don't have to answer for all of the things that they did in life.  People get angry because they don't want to follow his rules.

I don't force my beliefs on other people so believe what you want, but don't get angry at people for defending what they believe.

I don't want to put words in his mouth, but I am quite certain that is not the answer he would give given his previous responses. Atleast, it is not the response that most Chrisian theolgians would give. Christ's teachings are not right because the Bible says so. His teachings are right because they agree with the objective moral law. The main point I was attempting to make in my previous post is that this objective moral law is then taken as a foundational truth that needs no further justification.

"As hypocrisy is said to be the highest compliment to virtue, the art of lying is the strongest acknowledgment of the force of truth" - William Hazlitt

The higher the moral standard, the more likely individuals who consider it to be right, will be called hypocrites for holding such standards as being right.  In the area of debate over moral values, if the ONLY charge you hold is that of hypocrisy, then the individual doing such is likely very devoid of morals of their own they can persuade others to be valid.

Ok, besides this, who cares what people think of Christians or a belief in God?  Yes, people have lots of issues here, but that is life.

"But aren't these beliefes themselves instilled in people?" I'm not quite sure what you are asking. Could you elaborate?

@ sapphi snake  I stopped reading after oppressive dictator, no better than Hitler or Stalin.  You are just trying to touch a nerve and I won't let you get to me. 

I wish you the best and hope that one day you will learn tolerance. 

I did not mean to touch a nerve. This is how I genuenly view him. I was just trying to express where I'm coming from.