Attention Atheist, can you please do me a favor and listen to me.......

[Arugula Latte]

36. I will say this:

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I'm sorry that you have gone through all your health problems. I sincerely do wish you well.

However, I don't understand why many religious people think that religious beliefs deserve special protection.

In my opinion, no beliefs do, particularly beliefs for which there is no supporting evidence.

For decades, automatic belief in an (almost always Christian) god was the presumed default belief of everybody in the country. Atheists were assumed to be a tiny, evil, and deviant part of the population. The Internet has blown that out of the water, and now there are many more openly atheist/agnostics and "nones" and so on. Just as atheist beliefs were routinely scorned and derided, so now are religious beliefs, because the Internet provides a forum for this. And I believe that is as it should be. No beliefs should be sheltered from scrutiny, IMO.

All I can say is, welcome to our world.



On edit: Are not the very familiar pro-religious propaganda tools that we have been subjected to all our lives -- such as church signs basically saying "believe or burn," billboards proclaiming that Jesus died for our sins, money that says "in God we trust," the post-Cold War Pledge of Allegiance, even people wearing crosses -- cannot those be seen as a form of mockery of atheist beliefs? We are used to putting up with these pro-religious messages. Religious people are not used to putting up with anti-religious messages. That is the difference, I think.