I missed the hyperaggressive atheists here that attack believers in God 😂

I used to be that kind of atheist. Really, I was just blowing off steam because at the time, my life was controlled by religious people who didn't allow me to abstain from participating in their faith or argue against all the goofy-ass ideas they were insisting that I accept. I had known a lot of bigoted people who were motivated to discriminate others by the edicts of the Bible -- including against me -- and perhaps to some extent, I projected their flaws onto other Christians. And I had just come back from a period in my life in which internalizing the teachings of Christianity had brought me great emotional harm.

I don't really regret anything, save for one or two deeply insensitive moments. I very rarely had an issue with the chill Christians who admitted that they were only following the church to help their emotional state. 🤷‍♂️ It was always the ones who insisted that their particular mythology was objective truth and everyone who didn't follow it to a tee was wrong. I still have debates with Christians occassionally, though with how sick I am of the conversation, they have to either be really smart and open-minded for me to participate (e.g. Pirate) or they have to really be asking for it.