This Has to Stop

[Astonished]

FWIW Astonished, I don't think you're a douche.

Really? I guess I'm not trying hard enough, LOL.

I actually find you quite inspiring. I'm not a militant anti-theist by nature... I'm not a militant anything by nature... but sometimes, I think it's only activists that stand between us and a world dominated by religious delusion and all the harm it brings... so from that perspective, when I see raging anti-theists in action... giving it both barrels and not beating around the bush, I'm inspired... and grateful.

I actually found your earlier post inspiring; I wasn't of the mind that simply presenting the material (in a fair and balanced way, albeit unrealistic for parents to actually be able to do so in an unbiased manner) would cause those kinds of problems as outright brainwashing style indoctrination, but you made a good point, and the idea of hell not being a factor in any case at all, that was pretty swell.

I tend to look at the brainwashed as victims up to a certain point. Once they start becoming agents of the faith and start spreading it like the virus that it is, I can't look at them as victims anymore, I have to see them as threats. It's like people living in the Matrix, I'm okay with them being under that umbrella when we're trying to unplug them but once they get taken over by Smith and start turning others into duplicates of them, fuck 'em.