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

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...Maybe it would help you if I gave you some slippery slope pitfalls that the theists have and maybe you can find an atheist counterpart.

1. Violence against heretics

The way humans resort to violence to resolve conflict is instinctive and anthropological. It’s embedded in our selfish DNA. On naturalism/Darwinism, it’s quite normal.
So your beef isn’t against theism, it’s against human nature.

If you say (my) religion is false, abnormal, irrational, etc. that may be because the notion of unselfishly loving your enemy goes against your basic human nature – being told why and how to change that deepest ugly instinct bothers a lot of people.

2. child abuse by circumcision, male and female

You rail against circumcision of infants but abortion of unborn babies doesn’t get a mention. Yeah. I’ve seen that double-standard a LOT.

3. Endangering people through the handling of poisonous snakes in rituals.

If people want to handle snakes to get a religious “high” that bothers you but you don’t see the anti-religion whiners saying that drugs should be banned.

4. Ritualistic human sacrifice

Is there any modern day equivalent of human sacrifice? Yep. YOU BET!
We sacrifice human babies by the thousands every year just so we can continue to worship the gods of sexual hedonism and mammon/wealth. Ancient human sacrifice was widely expected and accepted as OK by the societies in which it was practiced. (Societies like the pagan Phoenicians, Canaanites and the worshippers of Baal, Molech, etc.) If you had gone to those people and said…this is wrong, they would have reacted in much the same way as if you tried to tell a bunch of selfish Western liberal feminists that abortion on-demand is immoral.

5. Inhuman cruelty to prisoners

Yeah, I know right! It’s horrible how they treat them like common criminals - murderers and robbers and rapists.

6. Hanging gays

The Old Testament doesn’t condemn people for being “gay” it condemns sex outside marriage and two men can’t be ‘married’
Interestingly, there arent any examples in the bible of gay people being subject to Mosaic Law capital punishment. Tough penalties probably provided sufficient deterrence.

7. burning witches

Hansel and Gretel were kidnapped by a witch – a proper evil witch, not a fake, incense and quartz crystals pretender. In that story, the witch was planning to murder and cannibalize innocent children. Wouldn’t YOU kill such a criminal to prevent such a horrific crime?
Funny how many ppl are opposed to capital punishment shown in the bible, but hold a double-standard when it comes to killing Usama bin Laden or dropping atom bombs on Japanese cities.

8. burning jews alive for host nailing desecrations

Disgusting. Where is that in the bible?

9. Stymieing science that does not support creationism

What? Science doesn’t need to be “stymied”. Science has done more to validate theistic cosmology than it has to invalidate anything biblical. What I find bizarre is the way people who are supposedly open-minded and willing to consider all theories as tentative, fight tooth and nail to stop schools discussing the probability of intentional design/teleology. Why the censorship of ideas?

10. Prohibiting helpful medical procedures.

Whats the issue here? Are “helpful” medical procedures going to become mandatory?