Quote Originally Posted by Iani View Post
Not mentioning anyone in particular here! In fact I'm not really thinking of anyone on this forum/thread.

However there is another thread on this forum, where some said that they don't like UK women/men, don't like their "values", don't like the way they behave around town, drinking to excess, showing off their tasteless tattoos and puking in unison.

Surely anyone with this belief couldn't ever post on this thread, attacking religion (I'm not saying they have)

It would not be making too many assumptions, that these members have partners who are pinoy - nature of this forum, just like the fact I post on a movie forum suggests I like movies.

This would mean that firstly, by attacking the beliefs of their partners (As opposed to say just accepting difference of opinion) they were being quite disrespectful towards their loved ones, who by experience I would guess were at least in passing religious - most people I have met from Phils are at least moderately religious. One thing about religious believers, is that they are easily offended if you attack their belief.

Secondly and ironically, they are attacking one of the very things core to the attitude and beliefs of their partners - one of the very things that attracted them to their partners in the first place, maybe they even went out to Phils to find their partner on purpose.

Maybe such a poster would be better off finding a nice atheist fat tattood drunk called Shazza from Slough. Three kids, three different dads (not sure though which men they were, too many Stellas that night innit)

Point is, someone can't be your soulmate if such an important part of what they are, and what makes them what they are, is something to be treated with derision.
I think it's just as unreasonable to make assumptions about Atheists as it is to make them about religious types.

My Filipina wife (for 15 years...ie, longer than most on here) was an Atheist and yes, had 3 children, each to a different father... though what relevance that has to her religion or lack of it, I'm not sure about.

Some Atheists (like myself) wouldn't be so ignorant or insensitive as to directly criticise the beliefs of others in their presence, or to cause them to feel awkward about their beliefs and customs.

Atheism is not a religion or a 'type', and with most that I know of, neither is it a 'crusade', which is perhaps why we come in so many varieties and are able to easily assimilate into most societies without whining incessantly or fighting amongst ourselves.
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