Who’s evangelizing again?

I make no apologies for getting in the face of religion. After all, they don’t seem to have any problem knocking on my door, advertising on TV, accosting me on the street, trying to determine what goes on in my bed-room (evidently god is a universe spanning, omnipresent, all knowing entity, that has a deep and personal interest in our sex lives), flying airplanes into sky-scrapers, and forcing women to breed against their will, so if you don’t mind, I’ll just keep getting in their face until we can develop a stigma against such arcane and infantile beliefs and finally rid ourselves of the only reason I could think of for an advanced extraterrestrial species to eradicate us before we spread.

You don’t even have to post this, because it won’t have any positive effect on the already delusional corrupted, but you should think about what it means in a world where your actions further the spread and eventual dominance of institutions that don’t care about this life, fully expect the world to end in fire, and who are now in possession of the very tools (weapons) to make their end-time prophesies come true, all because I break a religious friendly politeness taboo.

In other words, you’d have a point if there was a discussion going on about how evil Atheists are; but that wasn’t happening. Nobody was evangelizing. You just wanted to shoe-horn your anger into yet another thread, and you did so, and were called out on it. No amount of text can rationalize that.

“Eighty years ago the Jews in Germany…”

Oh brother. No, no, no. Do not do that ever. That’s repulsive.

Eighty years ago the Jews of Germany were driven into silence either by flight or denial, and finally the camps. Atheists are just now making their presence known in the world of ideas, after having to exist in the shadows and should not be scolded, or shamed, back into silence while the voices of absurdity are given free-range. Yes, I am an Atheist, and I will not sit at the back of any ecclesiastical bus that is taking society on a bogus ride. The religionists are going full bore to silence any voice that challenges what they perceive to be the natural and absolute order, so I am puzzled why someone who would identify themselves as an Atheist, would join the effort to silence a message that up until recently, if spoken, could have resulted in one’s death.

I am quite aware that there is a difference between the two. However, reading Jim’s comment most certainly alludes to the latter, not the former. I say this because apparently legitimate existing religious minorities in this country are seen as “Special Interest Groups” in Jim’s mind.

Happy Holidays! :)

@Cihan
Dude, don’t bother. Jim is clearly still living (ignorantly) in the 1950’s.