There is a serious anti-Christian vibe around here

[whatthehey]

309. If I may jump in to this interesting question

In the US it is indeed Christians who are most like this. Muslims in the US know they are only one misplaced sectarian extremist statement from either death by vigilante or at best serious and likely permanent unwanted attention from the DHS. I'm sure there are plenty of radical loony Muslims who would dearly love to shout about nonbelievers and lakes of fire in the afterlife after persecution in this one, but self-preservation stops them from doing it here. Radical loony Christians do it on billboards and cable channels non-stop, protected by the supermajority of (supposedly) more sane Christians who never speak up against them, instead saving their ire for atheists who are mean to them online. Radical loony Jews? Likely true too, but there it is at least in the vast majority of Jewish community groups in the US a religious and group norm to keep every opinion to themselves, not just that one. About as objectionable as they get in the general public seems to be whining about airline seat assignments and not going along with secular greeting norms. Sure they likely hate me too, but they do damn all to publicize that. Christians on the other hand seem to live for how much they hate nonbelievers, gays, choice, etc (oh sorry, they really love us but think it is both true and right that a perfect loving omnipotent deity wants to fry us for trillions of aeons just for being the souls he supposedly made himself. What does their hate look like then?). You guys can (and do) preen all you want about St so-and-so's soup kitchen (no matter how many secular volunteers also show up) and whatever wishy washy pseudo-nice sheen Spong or Robinson tries to mealy-mouth on to a veneer over the hate of the religion, but you do absolutely fuck all to stop the vastly better funded, better organized, more widely supported hateful bigotry of those who speak for Christianity in the US.


I've never been assaulted physically by a Muslim or Jew because I was an atheist and one of the few who doesn't hide it all the time. Three Christian attacks so far. Two death threats, three vandalism incidents. How many have you had from atheists just for being a believer? Since we are just as bad and all that...