The militant atheists and Islam haters on this site really make it a toxic environment

@CountScrofula I wonder if he's aware that more Europeans have some Middle Eastern and Central Asian DNA. If it was not for Neolithic Middle Eastern farmers, Europe would never have had agriculture.

@CountScrofula [quote] I know one life lesson - and that's to treat people with basic dignity, and to not talk about shit I don't understand.[/quote]
It’s a lesson many theists could stand to learn as well. 🙁

@bijouxbroussard Oh absolutely. This is not to say that all religious folk are good and true and kind and reasonable that's just obviously not true. I grew up in a very religious small town and I was not treated kindly.

The big thing for me is the overall look is middle class white men attacking people who are often poor or minorities for their beliefs. There's a power relationship there.

@deadgerbil Preach it Rabbi!

@deadgerbil true 😂

@deadgerbil The biggest complaint by atheists (traditionally) has been of attempts by theists to abridge their rights. Hypocritical of those attempting to do the same thing.

@Eternity I choose my words carefully. I am against this idea of "phobias" and mislabeling disagreement as hate

@BlueVeins I agree entirely. I appreciate that you understand the value of honest dispute

@SW-User Kali, you stay preaching 💯

@ServantOfTheGoddess I like that idea but feel responsible to not do so. I am against lies, traducing, and oppression against anybody. These people will continue to actively work to indoctrinate others with clear falsehoods and I feel it is injustice to see a lie and let it be

@Babylon I hear you, but sometimes the expression "choose your battles" is good advice...

@ServantOfTheGoddess the way I see it, 10, 20, maybe 4 years from now, who knows how much time I'm blessed with? I'll be gone

And when that day comes, if I could have saved one more person from one more evil thing, I think it was worth it (not forcing if course 😅)
And maybe they can carry on and help one more person one day :)

@Straylight teach them Stray 😔
I want them like you

@walabby If militant feminists didn't exist we would still be slaves to males. If militant Blacks didn't fight against racism NOTHING would have changed and they would still wear chains and still be hung by the neck from trees. It is necessary to be militant. Damn good thing we weren't just chillin'! Doesn't have to be violent...but, aggressive, loud, radical, assertive, relentless against injustice. You're welcome

@Babylon China isn't doing it being they are atheistic though. They are doing it for ethnic reasons it's horrid either way but let's be specific here.

@thisgenericnamehere now, I simply can't back you up nor accept that. It just isn't true. You can't pretend atheists oppression on religious people is nonexistent. Stop trying to pretend that atheists can't be bad people, man. The truth is evil atheists exist. Even if they are ethnically atheist, it is still forced atheist violence and oppression against religious people. There is no distorting that, dude. This is as specific as it gets

@Babylon You haven't proven any of what you've claimed. So. Easily dismissed.

@Nanori that's a good question that many of them have to wrestle with, bc if they are actually a follower of that God, who are they to cherry pick what to follow?

It makes no sense and that's why conservative practitioners of a religion have a leg up on the rest, because all they have to do is read and follow exactly what their holy book says without having a modern, 21 century understanding about the world around them

@Nanori I need some context to this so I can understand better what you mean. Because religion is a way of life, yo
I can choose to follow my desires or follow what Allah says in thr Qur'an

Like, Islam teaches not to drink. So, I don't drink. Do you mean if someone puts a gun to my head and tries to force me to eat pork? Or what?
I'm kinda confused what you mean by how far I am willing to go to follow it

@bugeye you're entitled to how you see those books and their teachings.
The one thing I would like to note is that confrontation should be honest and accurate. There is nothing wrong with differing but there is something wrong with either ignorantly misconstruing or intentionally misconstruing.

I have come across few atheists who hate Islam that have demonstrated an accurate understanding of the religion's teachings itself. Speaks volumes when ignorant people fight something based on something they either don't understand or intentionally try to defame

@emptysoul44 "Muslim"

The term is Muslim for a persom who follows Islam (the religion)

@Babylon uh ok

@HoraceGreenley this is so true for some 😂

@fernie2 I do what?

@Babylon BABBLE ON!

@fernie2 about?

@Emosaur 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾

It's rather impressive how pertinacious you are. No amount of repitition or reason can demonstrate to you what you keep bringing up over and over (throughout all the refutations) is riddled with irrationalities, contradictions, or misconceptions, and you have a deep boiling hatred and drive to make Islam and Muslims look bad to the best of your ability, day in and day out, religiously. I neither understand nor have you justified or rationalized why.

There was a point in time I believed you might have been honest and sincere but I cannot continue to go back and forth with you any longer about the same old lies after you refuse to learn. I would have loved that we could talk, reason, and we work together to come to truth and better understanding about things (as you have helped me learn a bit about some things in the past).

I just hope it isn't pain or suffering that gives you this heavy drive, because if it is, we can talk about it. If it's just pure hatred or this is some sort of supremacy mission, then I hope maybe you can reflect on your motives, objectives, and your worldview.

@Emosaur it you