All posts tagged "God Delusion"

[rebelmouse-image 24748032 original_size="306x523" expand=1]Update: The cracker is gone. The post is worth reading because PZ explains how the puffery around the supposed sacredness of communion wafers is linked to finding excuses to torture and kill Jews. Something to consider if you have an urge to treat treacly Catholic nonsense, from opposition to birth control to sanctifying women who die in childbirth to acting like communion wafers and embryos are more important than people, like it's harmless goofery. It's interesting to see the emails he got, which resemble ones I've gotten in the past from people whose minds have been completely ruined by religion. Except they're even more crazy. I can say that most half-crazed emails I get make me laugh, but the pitiful ones from true believers just depress me. They're just broken people, and I blame the church.

The post below devolved into the same conversation that often happens when an atheist uses the same public forums aggressively used by believers to spread their beliefs---i.e., speaking up in books and websites. Why do atheists have to go around making the nice religious people uncomfortable? The religious people invoked in defending the religious privilege---the right not to be made uncomfortable, a privilege not extended to non-believers---are always the Platonic ideal of non-offensive believer, someone who barely believes really, keeps it to themselves, has no moral differences from an atheist, stays the course on the liberal party line and doesn't squirm over Teh Gay or Teh Abortion, and maybe even agrees that "under god" should be taken out of the Pledge. We all like liberal Christians, so can atheists just stay in the closet and not upset the nice ones?