"I disagree with you, but i don't think you're Hitler"

[Jaysyn]

Religion has been responsible for a lot of harm. However the religious themselves are not all murderers and bigots.

Maybe not, but they still support the system.

And Christianity did bring us notions like the sanctity of life, equality, and compassion that did not exist beforehand.

That are summarily ignored by most of it's adherents that I interact with. Christians love the death penalty. Most Christians have no tolerance for homosexuals. Many, many, many Christians, on both sides of the skin color spectrum, are extremely racist to this day. Also, the philosophy of Buddhism had all of those tennants covered 4 centuries before Christ ever came on the scene.

Also nowhere did i say you should respect their beliefs. What i am saying is that large generalizations and ad hominem attacks are things that need to be avoided.

And nowhere did I make either one of those, everything I claimed above has been measured & debated for decades before I was even born.

And why all the deal about "their precious little feelings" ? Do you honestly think that insulting their God is going to make them UPSET ?

And now you are putting words in my mouth, I never insulted their god, I stated what history has seen fit to call the truth.

No, all you are going to do is make them think you are an idiot. Or you're going to make them angry at you. How is that any good ? How does that further the dialogue in any way ?

Irrational dialog is useless. If they were rational to start with, they wouldn't be religious, now would they?