This is why I hate people who hate "fucking christians"

[Brakeman]

Can't we all just get a bong?

Sorry, it's one of my raw nerves that people assume we should respect wrong headed ideas like religion but not respect other wrong headed ideas like alchemy or phrenology.

Incorrect ideas should always be countered with better ideas in the greater society, there is no benefit for attachment to error.

For the individual there may be reason to soft pedal. I do the same with my father, an ex-pastor of the southern baptists. We have a truce because at his age, being shown that his whole life was a lie, might have a poor effect on him. Yet he knows I don't abide by any bullshit.

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That presumes two things. One is that logic and reason are the only tools people use (they are not) and two is that only the tools people use define them as a group.

Bullshit, name these two tools that atheists use that might define them and could lead to a negative outcome if overused.