Disasters, war, crime, ect ... and Survival.

[The Valkyrie]

What I did was not a war crime!

[Mister Agenda]

I met Rebecca Vitsman, she came down to SC with some other atheists in her group to help out with flood recovery. They worked hard for a couple of days helping fix flood damage. One of her friends had atheist bling on his car (atheist fish and some bumper sticker or another), which got it vandalized in a parking lot, damaging the bling and slashing his tires.

[onlinebiker]

I met Rebecca Vitsman, she came down to SC with some other atheists in her group to help out with flood recovery. They worked hard for a couple of days helping fix flood damage. One of her friends had atheist bling on his car (atheist fish and some bumper sticker or another), which got it vandalized in a parking lot, damaging the bling and slashing his tires.

Jesus said " fuck up the heretics" - so it' s OK....

[Gwaithmir]

I met Rebecca Vitsman, she came down to SC with some other atheists in her group to help out with flood recovery. They worked hard for a couple of days helping fix flood damage. One of her friends had atheist bling on his car (atheist fish and some bumper sticker or another), which got it vandalized in a parking lot, damaging the bling and slashing his tires.

Christians never love more deeply than when they love to hate. 

[Brian37]

I met Rebecca Vitsman, she came down to SC with some other atheists in her group to help out with flood recovery. They worked hard for a couple of days helping fix flood damage. One of her friends had atheist bling on his car (atheist fish and some bumper sticker or another), which got it vandalized in a parking lot, damaging the bling and slashing his tires.

I've never had my property vandalized, but a long time a go working pizza delivery, some guy saw my atheist bumper sticker and called my workplace and tried to have me fired, because his son saw it while driving behind me. When I got back from that delivery my manager told me. I asked him what he said to that guy, and my manager rightfully said, "It is your vehicle, as long as it isn't profane you can display whatever you want."

Another time in that same town, same vehicle, I went to a laundromat to do my cloths, a black guy saw that same bumper sticker and started shouting "WHY DON'T YOU BELIEVE, WHY DON'T YOU BELIEVE". I calmly walked up to him and asked "Would you like to know why?" and he simply kept on shouting. There was no reasoning with that guy, so I simply walked away. 

But over the years I've read plenty of accounts of vandalism and worse. I remember years ago a story about an atheist family being kicked out of their apartment when their landlord found out. Another story where an atheist teacher was fired and their family basically had to flee the town because of all the threats.

The ignorance of these people is astounding on top of being hypocritical. If these same people lived in places like Saudi Arabia or Iran, they could not easily promote Jesus over Allah and would risk vandalism, violence and even arrest by the government.

[Mister Agenda]

I have some friends who manage to drive around Columbia SC with Darwin Fish and pro-science stickers (not explicitly atheist), but I live outside the capital and I don't put anything on my car. I can't afford repairs and in SC the farther from a city you are the worse it gets. I'd be concerned for my personal safety in some small towns in SC if I advertised that I'm an atheist.

[Angrboda]

I considered going to service at a mega-church once, but decided against it for fear that my car with Hindu stickers on it would get vandalized.

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

The only vandalism I’ve experienced due to my atheism was having a Darwin fish emblem pried off the petrol tank on my bike. I’ve experienced significantly more vandalism because people assumed, based on my surname, that I was Catholic.

Boru

[Brian37]

I have some friends who manage to drive around Columbia SC with Darwin Fish and pro-science stickers (not explicitly atheist), but I live outside the capital and I don't put anything on my car. I can't afford repairs and in SC the farther from a city you are the worse it gets. I'd be concerned for my personal safety in some small towns in SC if I advertised that I'm an atheist.

Even in the South it depends. I live on the coast of North Carolina and all the places I worked since moving down here were full of diversity, and the patrons were mostly middle class and or elderly transplants from the suburbs of the North. I would say however, the more rural you go in any state, especially in more white poor, you will see more religious and less tolerance. But to be fair, the same can be said worldwide. The more mixed a city or suburb is, the more connection to the global society one has. The more isolated and rural and religious a location is, the less tolerant that society is.

But in any case, there are powers at the tops of nations that can and do prey upon the fear of those under them.

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

I have some friends who manage to drive around Columbia SC with Darwin Fish and pro-science stickers (not explicitly atheist), but I live outside the capital and I don't put anything on my car. I can't afford repairs and in SC the farther from a city you are the worse it gets. I'd be concerned for my personal safety in some small towns in SC if I advertised that I'm an atheist.

Even in the South it depends. I live on the coast of North Carolina and all the places I worked since moving down here were full of diversity, and the patrons were mostly middle class and or elderly transplants from the suburbs of the North. I would say however, the more rural you go in any state, especially in more white poor, you will see more religious and less tolerance. But to be fair, the same can be said worldwide. The more mixed a city or suburb is, the more connection to the global society one has. The more isolated and rural and religious a location is, the less tolerant that society is.

But in any case, there are powers at the tops of nations that can and do prey upon the fear of those under them.

I think you’ll find that predation based on fear is as much lateral as it is vertical. 

Boru