Ex-theists are often like ex-smokers, sanctimonious and insufferable.

[Pyrrho]

The analogy of the opening post is way off.  Religious people murder people every day.  They discriminate against people every day.  It is right and proper to fight against such things.

If religious people did not affect others with their poison, then tolerating them would be fine.  But those fuckers are all about fucking over other people, and they should be stopped.

People of all beliefs and backgrounds do that everyday. How are religious people special? If you accept the idea that religious people do harm because of religion, then are you ready to accept the balance by good deeds done by religious people, or do you think only bad deeds count? How does that work?

Of course the good deeds done due to religion count.  Now, tell me, how many good deeds does it take to balance against a beheading?  If you need more examples of the deeds caused by religion, you don't have to look very hard for them.  All you need to do is keep looking at Minimalist's threads in which he keeps adding atrocity after atrocity to the lists.  Or, if you want, you can search on your own.

Maybe you think it does not matter because the example to which I link above is about some brown-skinned woman in a poor country.  I say, religion needs to be combated, as it is a danger to civilization.  Religion may be mostly tamed in your country, but that is not how it is elsewhere.  And it has not been tamed by its choice in your country either.  Given the chance, we can expect the same actions as were the case in the past.  After all, they still have the same texts and organizations of the past that inspired such things.


Edited to add:

When smokers and drinkers start beheading others due to their smoking and drinking, then we can start to talk about how such things compare with religion.  But otherwise, it is a bullshit analogy.