(July 20, 2014 at 4:02 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: Well, to be fair, don't we, as atheists, tend to stereotype Christians and other believers? Be honest - we're notorious for painting believers with a VERY broad brush.No one should stereotype others. But there is a huge difference between hate of a claim, or a concept, and hate of a group. Religion starts with naked assertions, it sets up in group vs out group, and that group think infects politics at a very dangerous and divisive level.
Boru
Penn Jillette said "Don't hate the faithful hate faith itself". I think it is perfectly reasonable to hate claims that are not backed up by evidence, and hate actions of humans that are based on those naked assertions.
Political correctness and setting up taboos out of some well intended sense of fairness does nothing to get to the knowledge of reality or our common existence. Not all claims are equal even if you agree to the human right to make a claim. Humans deserve the right to make whatever claims they want but that does not mean the claim itself deserves blind value.
