Brainstorm

[Mister Agenda]

What a naïve thing to say.

Although the antitheists who think a police state is a small price to pay for eradicating religion are a small minority, it's not small enough by a long shot. Here when someone suggests an extreme 'solution', they're kidding. That's not always the case in the wild.

I hope you understand that most anti-theists, including me would never advocate any sort of a police state. It just happens that we aren't too busy smoking weed to notice that there are powerful theists who do want to make our country a police state, and they will get it if they are allowed to act unopposed. When we rally to protect reproductive and bodily autonomy rights, protest the pollution of the science classroom with unscientific nonsense, sue to protect children from being forced to deal with their prayer rituals in their schools, or hang billboards to encourage other atheists to speak out, none of this is the practice of totalitarianism.

Absolutely, you generally have to go on Reddit or Huff Po to run into the really toxic ones.

We know that atheism flourishes where people are the most educated, safe, and financially secure. Religion will never be entirely eradicated, but doing what we can to educate, protect, and provide a financial safety net will probably reduce it more than atheist proselytization will, though doing what little we can to teach and promote critical thinking skills is an important part of educating.