(December 12, 2011 at 5:46 am)Norfolk And Chance Wrote: I think it is hard for us to understand on this side of the pond just how hard it is for American Atheists to "come out". That country really is an ignorant retard, and you have front line troops like Egor desperately scrabbling about trying to maintain that.
Plus you have people like Egor spreading bold faced lies about who we are and how we behave. On top of that there are millions of these bigots.
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell