Do you ever wish you could just say "these people should be killed"

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That's a nice cardboard cutout you have there.

I've got Christians in my family who in no way fit your stereotype, but hey, you're entitled to your own opinion, no matter that it doesn't accommodate the varied facts as they are.

Sure, not all people believe in a bigoted god, but Religion is absolute nihilism, in the sense that without god there would be no meaning. People always say religion comforts people, why else would that be besides the person is totally nihilistic. Yeah, you can defend religion by saying some religious people aren't like that, but it's just pandering and the second part of my statement is something that applies to all religious people.

Except I'm not defending religion. I'm pointing out that your view of religious people is pretty shallow and doesn't account for the wide variety of approaches that they have to their faith.

I personally think that religion is nonsense. That doesn't mean that I despise religious people, even though I think they're wrong about how they arrive at their views.