To be sure…The Christians…

JFKY on February 26, 2013 at 12:52 PM

Lets bring back the language

And no, it doesnt make it ok because their are some atheists who are jerks about it. I don’t hold the westboro baptist church against you so, unless you want to claim those people, don’t lump us all in. And what is with this attitude of “believe what you want, just keep your mouth shut”? Doesn’t seem to apply to people of faith, hu?

I’ve never picked a fight over religion but when it comes up I am honest about my lack of faith. I’ve met some very tolerant, open minded religous people who, while they disagree with me, are polite about the matter. Coming online, it makes me wonder if, behind that politeness, was the same kind of stuff I read on here, they just didn’t have the nerve to say it to my face. I’ll give them the benifit of the doubt. I’d hate to think it was just a mask that Christians wear.

Where were the atheists speaking out for protecting persecuted Christians? Zzz. Wake me up when they do and maybe I’ll wake up and join their cause. But that would mean they need to stop their own persecution of US Christians.

AH_C on February 26, 2013 at 12:45 PM

Hold that train right there….Who says they haven’t been speaking out? Point out where atheists have been lax in supporting human rights?

And your last bit is just as over-the-top as the atheist’s….”persecution of US Christians”, really? No the death penalty for conversion or promotion of Christianisty is PERSECUTION, so let’s park our hi horse, for a minute.

In Afghanistan, Iran, Maldives, Mauritania, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and Sudan “atheists can face the death penalty on the grounds of their belief”

Covered already, but it bears repeating, in those countries ‘atheist’ is basically just another flavor of ‘non-Moslem’.

–St. Vladimir Bogoiavlensikii

So how would anyone know you are an atheist unless you revealed it?

What has the world come to when an Entitled First World Hipster can’t proclaim his/her superiority over the local hicks? If I can’t go to Ulan Bator/Wetumpka and loudly proclaim that your yurt/hovel is hardly a model of modern culture, lacking in irony, and vegan cuisine, and pointing out that your silly superstitious beliefs have absolutely no relevance in the Modern World, then most assuredly my Human Rights HAVE been violated! I expect a sternly worded letter from the UN and a letter of abject apology from the headman/mayor of Ulan Bator/Wetumpka.