Why Are Believers Willfully Ignorant About Atheists?

[Heddi]

43. When do you start confronting anti-atheist bigotry like you said you would?

You didn't do it in that thread I linked to, and you haven't done it here, or numerous other places when it's been pointed out to you.

You've said that as a host you would chastise bigotry from both sides when you see it...but when you see it from one side, you're silent. You only seem to confront it when it comes from posters who are known atheists or agnostics.

It's really unfair the things that were said about atheists in the thread that I linked to, that you were a part of, and that you, a host who has promised repeatedly to be fair and balanced with regards to religious issues, were silent towards 2 posters: one who made a series of hateful, bigoted, and UNTRUE statements about the ability of atheists to console, and one made by another poster who insinuated that I was "polishing my halo" by recounting true accounts of what the realities of working in a hospital are.

You were silent. And you're always silent unless it's the atheists being "uppity". Then you're right there, wagging your finger and pointing out how uncouth the behaviour is, and how it's deteriorating good discussion, and how it's about points and winning and all this nonsense.

When do you tell another poster that saying an atheist cannot console like a believer is EXACTLY the same as saying an African American can't ____ like a white person. Or that a woman can't ____ like a man. Or that a disabled person can't ____ like a non-disabled person can?

When do you actually start standing up for Atheists, like you promised that you would?

On edit: so you linked to 2 times that you suggested a poster not refer to atheists in a negative way, although that poster has a habit of referring to atheists in a negative way and equating them with Stalin, Hitler, etc.

So two times. Wow. That's stunning. I'm really overwhelmed at your equality. Two times. Wow. And how many dozen times have you wagged your finger and "tsk tsk'ed" at the atheists for the things we post, and the things we say, and how we're not contributing to thoughtful discussion?