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Originally Posted by Calgaryborn
Really Atheists in general have gone out of their way to attack Christianity in North American. Of all the enemies of the cross of Christ atheists have been the most abnoxious. We don't see Muslims or Jews attacking Christmas and demanding crosses be removed from public property. You guys got the reputation you deserve.
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I actually haven't met a single atheist that hates Christmas from a religious standpoint. I haven't met anyone really that feels that way. Lets just say, hypothetically, that atheists did "attack" Christmas. How is that worse than what religious fundamentalists have done to each other for centuries? As SebC pointed out, planes into buildings. If you want to keep going back through history, atheists never coerced Christians into their beliefs under punishment of torture and death. There is no "you started it" and it shouldn't even matter. Holding a grudge is not a step forward into making things better for each other.
This is what I don't understand about you, CB. You don't agree when people blanket the entire Christian population by using small examples of extremism and intolerance from groups such as the WBC and such, and yet you're completely fine with doing the same for all atheists.
Some people seem to have difficulty differentiating between the individual and the group (and this goes for people on both sides of the fence.) One bad experience labels an entire group which leads to the perpetual unneeded distrust of one another.
Aside from all that; how can you possibly consider atheists to be worse than rapists? (I'm not saying
you in particular, CB, but you sidestepped the question last time it was posed to you.)