[Thor]

Originally Posted by Knalus

And there are more Religious people in the world who feel that they need to constantly bite their tongue in case their personal beliefs even get implied.

There are also plenty that don't bite their tongues, not sure what your point is here. Like anyone with any ideology, some keep quiet, some don't..

It is no longer polite to discuss religion, which is made painfully clear, yet you feel that religion is thrown in your face daily?

Its been and still remains in most places in the world considered impolite, risky, sometimes dangerous to criticize religion, how do you find the opposite that its impolite to discuss religion?

You live in the least religious nation in the world, and it is thrown in your face daily? I think you don't know what thrown in your face means.

Iceland is not the least religious, but certainly its no Saudi Arabia. I am not speaking out on behalf of my local issues here, I do that locally since I am a member of our humanist group and we have been fighting tooth and nail to stop christian pastors coming to our elementary public schools talking about Jesus and even giving out biblical children's books.

Since you seem to think locally, lets put this in perspective. With social media and the internet, for those of us who are active in this debate, I see daily via Facebook and news the onslaught of bad ideas coming under the guise of religious beliefs. Rewriting history books in Texas, changing laws to infuse Intelligent design into biology classes, 100's of state and local amendments to limit and make abortions harder... This is a tiny part of what I see and read weekly, then theres the stuff that really makes me sad, people in 3rd world nations being jailed, imprisoned and killed just for not being religious..

Mentioning religion (like mentioning atheism) is not the same thing as "throwing it in your face". I think you are hypersensitive to the issue, which may explain why you are so angry about it.

Oh great that old standby by religious apologists, "atheists are so angry."

I have stated countless times throughout the years my issue is not with religious belief itself, although I love to debate it with those who want to; but with ideas, policies and attitudes propagated BY religious ideology. Gay marriage, anti abortion, anti-science, etc.. The list is long.