(January 5, 2015 at 2:45 pm)Huggy74 Wrote: I don't know how it is in Australia, but these stories are not uncommon in the US (probably the most litigious country in the world #American Atheists #Freedom From Religion Foundation), Hence why I didn't bother fact checking.
Not uncommon, but also not, you know, factual. As I think I've pretty aptly demonstrated so far, given that the best examples you saw fit to give were a joke and a complete fabrication. Most days you can at least find one or two of these squealing persecution narratives from US sources on atheist blogs, followed by a round of slight fact checking or language deconstruction that shows that the persecution either is not happening, or is simply the proper execution of a secular American government being misinterpreted by christians used to a certain amount of privilege.
Since you mention American Atheists and the FFRF, I will too, since the cases they take on are often breaches of the definition of a secular government that they are attempting to repair. What we have here, if you wanted to be at all accurate, is a country where the most highly religious demographics are the ones damaging the secular nature of the government, while the atheists are the ones attempting to keep that secular nature pure.
It's almost like an exact reversal of your claim here!
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