everyone (else) seems to be hating on atheists

[Creed of Heresy]

[Epimethean]

Without the Medici, the Renaissance might never have gained traction, and we know the Medici made some absolutely spectacular popes ...

[downbeatplumb]

People were persecuted for not towing the church line all the time. They might not all be atheists but only because the phrase had not fully solidified until people started to think about alternatives to creation it was the only game in town.

so you can count galileo and spinoza to the persecuted.

[Shell B]

You can count numerous people. The church persecutes those who do not agree with their precise mode of thinking. Bottom line. If we're asking who does the bulk of persecuting, which Aiza seems to want to do, diminishing the persecution of others in favor of putting her faith on a pedestal as if numbers counted, the church has done most of it. That might be because there are just more religious people than atheists in history, but that's kind of irrelevant.

Hey guys, only two blue fish have ever been persecuted by green fish! That means green fish are better than blue fish.

Gosh, this Aiza nonsense is tiring. Sorry, there, but you have one hell of a hard on for Catholicism and you will construct walls to protect that hard on that rival the Great Wall of China. There is no way a single fact that goes against your church could penetrate that nonsense. You're either a Poe or a perfect addition to your faith. If it is the latter, I have no fucking clue what you are even doing here. Fraternizing with heathens. For shame!

[Creed of Heresy]

No penetration? That is a very catholic thing, I have noticed. But only with women. Little boys are A-OK. *rimshot*

[Aiza]

[Epimethean]

[Shell B]

I'm baffled by the dodging here. It's seriously so fucking deluded. Say I am persecuting green people, but I can't tell the difference between green people and blue people, so I persecute blue people as well as green. I'm still fucking persecuting green people, even if they hide from me and I wind up only persecuting blue people in my ignorant, hate-filled spree. You're not protecting Christians by saying they don't persecute atheists by pointing out cases of mistaken identity, Aiza. I know that facing reality is hard and looking at the bad in something you love is even harder, but I really want to know how you convince yourself that your arguments are good? Is it really so important that you protect your new found faith that you are willing to twist facts and use semantics to ensure that your spiritual position is secure? If so, that is fine, but it literally gives me the chills that you cannot even admit to a bit of twisting and dodging. Your position, in all seriousness, creeps me out. It makes me long for a day when people do not deny facts to support preconceived conclusions. If someone told me the sky was falling and the evidence was there to prove it, I might be scared and I might not like this reality, but I would rather die than contort reality to comfort myself.

[Norfolk And Chance]

SMURF HATER

[Reforged]

SMURF HATER

No such thing, anyone who claims to be is a hypocrite because there isn't a man or woman alive who wouldn't smurf the smurfing smurf out of Smurfette.
Same goes for the Flinstones, there isn't a single person here who wouldn't rock Wilmas world.

... I may of shared too much.