The Atheist Obsession with Insulting Christians

[Catholic_Lady]

But I'm not going to pretend there isn't any anti religious people bigotry here amongst some people.

Definition of bigotry: intolerance toward those who hold different opinions from oneself.

Come on, you're on an atheist site! Anti-religious (your word)  site! What do you expect?

I'm not sure if I've been directly bigoted toward you personally (may have been) but I know that you've been caught in my shotgun blast posts and victim of the collateral damage of my intolerance of the belief/behavior. You've taken it personal when that was never the intent. Remember my "Kill them all, let god sort it out" post? Not directed at you at all but you took it as a personal offense and I apologized. What's interesting is the "Kill them all......" started out as a catholic saying when eliminating the Cathars.

Guess what, most of us are in the minority with our belief in our communities and we get the bigotry IRL on a routine basis. Happened to me this morning (I'm being prayed for). Bet dollars to doughnuts you don't get it with nearly the same frequency. Here on AF may be the only time you do receive it. I'm not sure why you expect something different or no intolerance. IMO that's not realistic on an atheist site. 

So, I can understand that you feel bigotry here, you're in the minority. But don't fault us for speaking our mind about our belief/non belief in an atheist forum.

Want to try an experiment? Try walking in our shoes, not IRL, but just on the internet. Sign up to a xtian discussion site, identify yourself as an atheist and express some atheist views. Then report back.

Maybe I got ya wrong and that was not your intent either. It's much harder to tell when not IRL.

I understand MH, and I think you and others may be misunderstanding me. I like you and have never taken issue with you in the past. When I said there are people here who are bigotted against people of faith, I didn't mean merely people who disagree. Disagreement is 100% ok, and I'd never say it wasn't. I was not going to give any examples, but just so it is clear what kind of behavior I am referring to, here's one: 

Someone on here asked me a question about what Papal infalibility meant. I responded to their question in a way that was nothing but objective, merely telling the person what it meant. I got a one liner response back, with the person calling me a "coolaid swilling bimbo."

That was one example of when I was not being condescending/rude to anyone, but got called something nasty anyway. 

Btw, I did not take offense to your comment about killing all theist. And I told you that in a PM. The reason I pointed it out was because of a discussion I was having on another thread. I won't go into detail because I don't want to call anyone out. Just know I did not take offense.