User blog comment:Uknownada/Do the Bellamy Pirates represent atheists?/@comment-3425840-20120117095021

Well I don't want to argue or anything just stating something that I witnessed. I don't know what happens at your place but from the general understanding of the world that I have, atheists NORMALLY do not bother theist, its the other way around. Don't rush! Just hear me out how it happens, you can check in many forums or Facebook groups which say atheists only, and still many theist people enters there and tries to say that what atheists does there is wrong (of course in an atheist only group/forum it's normal to have a lot of religious criticism/mockery which are offensive to theists but who asked them to enter in a place which says atheist only?) Then comes the arguments which eventually leads to quarrel and both party starts to bitch around. So who is in fault in these kinds of situations? Who is being nosy? Also as preaching is a part of almost every religion, they just can not leave a atheist guy/girl alone and tries to convince him/her into religion so that also leads to a fight, again who is the one starting it?

When people becomes atheists they normally leaves their old religion back but their fellow people who are still on that religion often tries to convince them back, again atheists are being forced so they retaliate. Also keep it mind that when a person is atheist, he/she is part of the minority as most people are theists so he/she can not possibly go arguing against theists without any provocation because he/she is then prone to be squashed by sheer numbers.

Lastly, yes I know there are some super aggressive anti-theists or the so called scientific satanists or post modern satanists who just likes to come and shout at people's faces but they are just some people who has nothing better to do. From that point of view, aren't there extremist theists? Does that mean that all theists are extremists? Also sometime it happens such that some remarks made casually by atheists are considered offensive by theists but in those cases it should be noted that atheists might have no clue as to why it was offensive to the theist person. Just like it happens with one religion to another.

As for Bellamy's case, I would say it is just a typical antagonistic theme for a shonen manga, that is, in shonen chasing your dreams is emphasized so the villainous Bellamy opposes it, nothing more nothing less.