Atheists are Intolerant

[Aegrus]

The word intolerance gets thrown around a lot. I personally think that many atheists are intolerant of Christians. But what fundie morons seem to miss is that there is a marked difference between being intolerant of people for holding different beliefs or having a different skin color, and being intolerant of people because they are are batshit insane, psychopathic worshippers of a mass murderer who commands the destruction of every group he doesn't like.

If I were to protest black people, I would be a bigoted dick because black people are mentally no different than white people. The only difference is skin color. Both black people and white people are typically moral, and not psychopathic murderers. They don't as a rule promote intolerance and hatred.

If I were to protest, say, Agnostics, I would be a bigoted dick, because agnosticism, like black skin, does not result in mass murder and bigotry. There is a difference between being intolerant of a non-harmful belief or physical trait, and being intolerant of a proven-negative one. Nazism is a world view. If I protest Nazism, then I am technically intolerant. Of Nazis. That is not a negative thing.

And when I protest Christians? Christians, who have not only proven time and again throughout history that they will try to exterminate peaceful opposing groups, but who also continue witch hunts and murder in Africa to this day? Christians, who by DEFINITION listen to a book that tells them to kill homosexuals and nonbelievers, which states that women are property?

When I protest Christians, I'm doing the world a service. I'm intolerant of Christians, yes. For the same reason I'm intolerant of Nazis. That is not a negative thing.