Reply #11: Do atheists ask DU Christians to 'force' their brethren and sistren on the right to do anything?

[BurtWorm]

Of course not. Some atheists, myself included, have suggested that liberal Christians enable their right-wing brethren and sistren to commandeer their religion and define it by having no means to effectively counteract them. I don't necessarily blame liberal Christians for that. I think it's inherent in the religion--possibly in all religions, but certainly in the so-called revealed ones--that the most aggressively zealous and loud-mouthed of the believers essentially own the property. But I wonder what would happen if, instead of whining about "fundamentalist atheists," liberal Christians actually went after the fundamentalists in their own tribe and actively worked to discredit their ideas and deconvert their innocent flock. You've got right-wing fundies coming after lapsed New Englanders. Why don't you move into Alabama and go to work on that demographic?

I'll tell you why I think you don't. You don't really give a shit what they do to your religion. I honestly don't blame you. I wouldn't give a shit what they did to it either.