Reply #40: Or- the religious could take their opinions (and condemnations) of the atheistic into a

[LooseWilly]

... non-prayer space, like Hyde Park, or the Metro, and distribute materials offensive to the atheists in their non-prayer spaces to likewise offend—Ohh wait, they already do that.

And here in the States, they're liable to come knocking on your door to deliver odious god-stuffs to atheists.

Sounds to me like the religious believe that their concept of "sacred ground" should be respected, but they don't respect an atheists' claim that "secular ground" should likewise be respected.

I smell hypocrisy.

You can call it bigotry, and you may be right... but the irony of religious groups who won't take steps to reign in their own "atheist bigots" who like to roam the streets preaching about hellfire, damnation, and such like horseshit in the streets, leaves me with a paucity of sympathy for the suffering of the religious at the hands of atheist "bigotry".

You say "I think criticizing faith in a place of prayer is a form of hate and bigotry." Would you be willing to acknowledge the inverse?— that criticizing lack of faith outside a place of prayer is a form of hate and bigotry? Would you endorse passing a law against street corner (and university campus) evangelism? Would you endorse locking up the Christian groups that set up and sing evangelizing songs on the street?

Until you are willing to do so, you are a hypocrite... and you are endorsing a system of inequality that demeans the agnostic/atheistic by endorsing special privileges and territorial privileges to those who espouse religion- over those who espouse not being bothered with religion.