...well, fuck me and tell me 'thank ya', Lottie!'

"............ Atheists are the least tolerant of any world view. The reason your atheist group studies religion is to mock it and publicly villify* those of faith. Go to any atheist forum on the internet whether it be Youtube or Craigslist and you will find the most hateful, arrogant and vicious people on the planet................ Your depiction of atheists as this peace loving little group of people who are persecuted by nasty Christians is pure propaganda. The situation is quite the opposite. Atheist live to persecute people of any religion. Atheism is a fascist mindset hell-bent on removing religion from the planet."

*villify: to build a villa for, as in Habitat for Humanity.
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Bigots are bigots, and that sort of bigotry given religion a bad smell.

for what these religious people do? After trying endlessly to give religion credit for every nice thing any religious person has ever done, whether it was motivated by religion or not?

And religion has had the smell of bigotry through most of its existence, Charles, as you well know.

DUH!

when anyone who's been to church in the last year so much as smiles

“With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.” ― Steven Weinberg