(January 14, 2016 at 6:52 pm)Cecelia Wrote: I like how atheists get accused of ill will, when theists are the ones fantasizing about the other side burning in hell for all eternity for having a different opinion from them.
Exactly
And these people don't realise that, in this world, absolutely nothing will happen to you if atheists don't agree with your religion. Meanwhile, there are still several countries where apostasy is punishable by death, and many more where there is still a deep stigma around atheism. "Secularism" is increasingly becoming more and more of dirty word as well, people don't see it as progressive policy like they did before.
"Adulthood is like looking both ways before you cross the road, and then getting hit by an airplane" - sarcasm_only
"Ironically like the nativist far-Right, which despises multiculturalism, but benefits from its ideas of difference to scapegoat the other and to promote its own white identity politics; these postmodernists, leftists, feminists and liberals also use multiculturalism, to side with the oppressor, by demanding respect and tolerance for oppression characterised as 'difference', no matter how intolerable." - Maryam Namazie
"Ironically like the nativist far-Right, which despises multiculturalism, but benefits from its ideas of difference to scapegoat the other and to promote its own white identity politics; these postmodernists, leftists, feminists and liberals also use multiculturalism, to side with the oppressor, by demanding respect and tolerance for oppression characterised as 'difference', no matter how intolerable." - Maryam Namazie