Your stance on Hard Atheism

[Chad32]

Extremism is bad, regardless of what group you're in. I don't pay much attention to hard atheism, and I can understand why some people would fight fire with fire when it comes to the extreme beliefs of some religious people. You start talking about killing homosexuals, and saying atheists are evil, because of a book, and you'll get some people reacting to violence with violence.

I would discourage any kind of extremism, though.

We can agree on all of that. However, hard atheists are just as likely to conflate peaceful Christians with extreme ones and blindly attack them as extremist Christians are to do the same. I think we should have just as much condemnation for the intolerance of hard atheists as we do for violent Christians.

We should admonish anyone who says all members of a group are the same as any individual. Humans just don't work that way. My grandmother isn't about to run down a homosexual with her car, even though she doesn't care for them. I am not going to say that religion should be banned, despite hearing some atheists say it. You can believe what you want. Just don't terrorize people that don't.

People will be people, and we should discourage people who try to push others down, and punish people who threaten lives because their belief differ. Regardless of what group these people belong to.