If Only The Romans

[Anomalocaris]

The Chinese government thinks a government's ultimate justification is the facilitation of improvement in the practical, demonstrable wellbeing of its citizens in that life which everyone can see as existent, such as economic prosperity, more life choices, freedom of preventable diseases, hungers and anticipatable natural disasters. Christianity Through its promotion of an emphasis on a bogus afterlife rather than effective improvement of this life, undermines the ability of the government to be judged by the criteria any government should be judged by, and is thereby destructive of beneficial central power.

Basically, they don't think the promotion of afterlife at the expense of this one "harms nobody". They think it indirectly but profoundly harms everybody.

You can say in the interest of freedom of conscience, we have been told it is meritorious to act dumb and not dwell on second and third order effects. They think they have seen second and third order effects too often to ignore them.

Nothing is more harmful than the oppression of free thought as every atheist ought to know.

That is a mantra rather than a univerally empirically demonstrably fact. Atheists should base their views on demonstrability, not theory.