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In reply to the discussion: The newfangled atheists' normalization of Islamophobia was a... [View all]stone space
(6,498 posts)27. I can't speak for your hateful friends. They hurt people who we care about when they spew it.
But I know militant atheists. They hate all religion. They say very little like what you say. I have no idea why you label yourself that way.
A friend's 7 year old son was told that he was going to be deported to Mexico in school, in the small town of Nevada (pronounced differently than the state), right next door from here.
He's afraid, now.
Very afraid.
Your friends' hateful rhetoric has nothing to do with atheism, militant or otherwise.
It's about spreading a climate of hate to make others unsafe.
Lots of people are afraid, now.
People keep coming up, crying, worried that they will be deported, that their parents will be deported, that their brothers and sisters will be deported, that their aunts and uncles will be deported.
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Guil: your modern permissive, inclusive Christianity, differs only slightly from evangelicalism
Bretton Garcia
Dec 2016
#96
Sorry. My mobile compresses posts so it's hard to tell which posts are answers to which otber posts
okasha
Dec 2016
#92
And, since humans largely invented most of politics, nations, philosophies, arts, etc.,
LanternWaste
Dec 2016
#103
Warpy is objecting that atheists have the numbers or the social clout to 'normalize islamaphobia'.
AtheistCrusader
Dec 2016
#10
Understood, and we are all still waiting to find out why the post is actually here.
guillaumeb
Dec 2016
#21
I can't speak for your hateful friends. They hurt people who we care about when they spew it.
stone space
Dec 2016
#27
I really hope that the defeatism that I keep hearing from my fellow atheists is just a deflection.
stone space
Dec 2016
#41
Given that the atheist population hasn't increased much since before Harris/Dawkins/Abedin
AtheistCrusader
Dec 2016
#48
Please. Atheists (not agnostics and 'nones) are a tiny percentage of the population.
AtheistCrusader
Dec 2016
#55
And as usual, I note your concern is much higher about my objection, than the content of the OP.
AtheistCrusader
Dec 2016
#60
In this case, I'll throw you a bone now that I see how you misinterpreted the OP.
AtheistCrusader
Dec 2016
#64
Stone doesn't specify WITHIN new atheists. That's your qualifier, not the OP's.
AtheistCrusader
Dec 2016
#63
Pretty sure stone is not talking about normalization within their own population, and scanning
AtheistCrusader
Dec 2016
#70
Also, that's not true. There are Tea Party members of the Episcoplian, Protestant, MCC, etc
AtheistCrusader
Dec 2016
#90
Do we really need to remind people again who voted for the Islamophobe in 2016?
muriel_volestrangler
Dec 2016
#9
Ah, I remember the good old days when cbayer and starboard tack used to sit around and pretend
AtheistCrusader
Dec 2016
#51