If we condemn Christianity based on the Christian Right

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10. I don't condemn it based solely on the Christian Right

All religions have an infinite number of reasons to condemn them on their own merits. The stupidity, bigotry and insularity of their followers is more or less a side issue.

Atheism, on the other hand, is not the worship of Rand. Atheists aren't homogenous- put 10 atheists in a room and you have at least 8 totally separate beliefs on almost any given subject. We don't have the Book of Ayn containing commandments we're supposed to follow, or spend Sundays listening to a guy in a dress preach Randism. We don't base our lack of belief in a deity on the Word of Rand. She was a follower, not a prophet, of atheism. Atheists, when we're stupid, are stupid individually and on our own account. The Christian Right is stupid in Borgs because God told them to be. There's not really an equivalency.