Some advice for gun-control advocates: watch the atheists and the GLBTQ community.

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24. This made my day.

Thank you SO MUCH for coalescing and putting in writing something that had only a vague form in my mind.

Signed,
Fellow Proud Asshole

I'll come clean and say that as an atheist DUer, I've deliberately been a real asshole. Madalyn Murray O'Hair and Christopher Hitchens have also been known to be very abrasive. Religious people have planted the norm in our culture that we don't criticize religion, that we don't ask questions and we dare not express doubt or contradict. I break that norm with gusto. I openly ridicule every religion from Christianity to Mormonism to Judaism to Islam. If I was in Saudi Arabia, they'd chop my head off!

I do this to challenge those norms and to weaken them. I fully expect people to get upset with me, and expect backlash. So much the better - it draws attention, gets more people thinking, and plants seeds. Sure, I get flamed, get posts hidden, get the riot act from administration and juries. I'm a big boy, and I can take it. And over a longer period of time, I see the resistance diminish.