Could atheist westerners, please explain?

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Rocket: Totally agree. It seems he has completely swallowed a load of divisive, inaccurate propaganda. It is really sad. I'd like to continue talking to him, even though I find his position savage, but I can't make any sense out of what he's saying. I think he's been surrounded with this nonsense so long it has replaced reality in his head.

NoMorProp is right though, he's young. Maybe as he grows a bit older and wiser he'll start thinking for himself more and challenging these ideas instead of accepting them all at face value. Right now we're being presented with a massive false dichotomy, in which anything that isn't religious rule is some even worse form of tyranny. That's just ridiculous. Or that opposing tyranny is actually tyranny. Equally ridiculous.