Reply #256: I Still Can't Get Over This Bit Of Nonsense...

[arwalden]

Further up the thread, someone asked:

Do they think we are threatening them in some way, that we want to take their rights from them?

I find it positively astounding to think that any reasonably intelligent individual would suggest that such things were not true. Statements like that--at worst--reek of intellectual dishonesty, or--at best--extreme naivety.

It ranks right up there with the "every atheists is trying to convert us" nonsense that we're witnessing in another thread in this forum. This irrational fear that some folks have of atheists, and the "we're poor persecuted Christians" is really too much.

No... seriously, it's TOO much. Stop it!

There's been a disconnect from reality from those two separate mindsets at the far end of the religionist spectrum. There's one extremely paranoid group that feels as though atheists are the new Pod-People who seek to convert all believers (into what I wonder?)

Then there's another extremely myopic group that's totally oblivious (or pretends to be oblivious) to the actual goings-on in our government, with our laws, and even our constitution. They are absolutely clueless as to what it is that the religionists are doing when it comes to non-believers or anyone unlike themselves.

To see perfect examples of this, one needs to look no further than the religious-based challenges to a woman's right to privacy; attempts to deny equal rights to homosexuals; and attempts to legislate that religious creationist fairy tales are taught in public schools.

Do they think we are threatening them in some way, that we want to take their rights from them?

On the face of it, that's an absurd thing to say... and it speaks volumes about the type of person who would seriously ask such a thing. But what's even more revealing is that when the statement is challenged, the OP chooses to play evasive Clintonian word games.