Evangelical Alliance: "We aren't homophobic women-haters"

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Riiighhht...and atheists have such as stellar reputation...

Alright, we'll start here: statistically, there are less atheists in prison than befits the general population, whereas there are more religious in prison than the same, for a lot of (christian) denominations of the same.

I guess the point is, reputation isn't everything. Reputation can be manipulated by outside sources like, say, the desperate and hateful screeds of the religious fundamentalists as they slowly lose the power they once had. Reputation, and the factual case, are two very different things.

It's exceedingly interesting to me that you opted for the shallowest, most possibly dishonest route, of the two.

embittered nihilistic libertines.

You know, I'd really had hope that you might have opened your mind and learned a little about the atheist position, based on a few of the latest threads I'd read your contributions to, I really had. It pleased me, to perhaps see some common understanding emerging.

So it's actually rather disappointing to see you lapsing back into your old "atheism is nihilism!" routine, after being specifically informed as to how it is not. Given that you now know, for certain, what actual atheists think on this point, and have responded to them so we know you read the posts, we really have no other alternative but to deem this line of yours a deliberate lie.

As to my putative bitterness... no. I'm actually happier than I've ever been right now, and I was never particularly unhappy or discontent to begin with. I've taken my life into my own hands since becoming an out atheist, and it's improved immensely; yet another point on which your factual error is simple to point out.

And we're libertines? No: I have numerous moral stances and strictures on my life, that I have placed there personally upon serious consideration of my position in the universe and the consequences of my action on myself and others. I would suggest that those are far more valuable and worthy than the simple bended knee by which you receive the arcane ancient deepities of your argument-from-authority god.