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

How hard can it be to be a decent human and respect others?

I don't mind talking and conversing honestly about things, but they make it difficult for some kind users here to ise this site peacefully. What a turn of events when they claim religious people are oppressive as they constantly try to demonize amd demoralize people who did nothing wrong.

It's the disingenuinity and double standards that irritate me. I welcome any honest felt opinion, question, discussiom, or view but you have to quit the deception and lies.

To all the people who are content with respecting others and do not go out of their way to lie, try to demoralize, and slander others, thank you for making this site a more positive experience. Maybe you don't agree on everything but you learn and benefit from taking the good of ehat everyone has to offer

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CountScrofula · 41-45, M Best Comment

As a hardcore atheist, I have very very little time for most other atheists for the reasons you listed.

Particularly as it comes to "criticizing Islam". Attacking someone else's belief system from a place of profound ignorance is profoundly shitty. What the hell does criticizing Islam even mean.

It reads to a profound lack of understanding of how power and privilege works, and exactly whose interests they think they're serving. Stupid, childish, and intellectually lazy young white men rampaging around trying to tell everyone that they know best. As a white male atheist I know one life lesson - and that's to treat people with basic dignity, and to not talk about shit I don't understand.

Babylon

@CountScrofula I love your response, but if only they could be more like you as atheists. You ought to be their role model

I commend your kindness

Innsegall · 41-45, M

@CountScrofula All of they abrahamic religions believe that one day theirs will be the only religion practiced on earth. They fight openly and secretly to achieve these ends. Each came first with the sword. Islam happens to be the most active on this campaign. From the bottom up at least. The islamification of Europe is happening in real time. Streets, towns and in some cases cities exist in every country in Europe where Europeans are not welcome. It seems that is you who does not understand the situation. Or maybe you do...

CountScrofula · 41-45, M

@Innsegall

> The islamification of Europe is happening in real time.

Wow that didn't take long.

Innsegall · 41-45, M

@CountScrofula Take a look around. People see it, in real life. They don't say it on sites like these...but they see it...

CountScrofula · 41-45, M

@Innsegall Astonishing how 5% of the population with no money or power manages to run the place. At this rate you'll be in a burqa by Christmas, if they can even call it that anymore.

Innsegall · 41-45, M

@CountScrofula No one said they 'run the place', that's the job for that other great abrahamic religion...spurious statements seem like the norm on this site... Muammar Gaddafi gave a great speech on it before he got regime changed. At the time(90's) he reckoned there was already 50 million muslims in Europe. 10 years from when he gave the speech he expected 100 million and so on and so forth until the whole of Europe was invaded and fucked out of existence. He even made mention of the declining fertility rates of Europeans and that all this would happen without the necessity of firing a single bullet...

Straylight · 31-35, F

@CountScrofula People immigrate to other regions, taking their culture and religious practices with them because it’s part of who they are.
Alarmists: They’re taking over! 😱😱😱

NickiHijab · F

@Innsegall you do know there's European regions and countries with majority Muslim population too?
The Caucasus region, (parts of Russia)
The balkans, (Kosovo, Albania, Boznia & Herzegovina, Macedonia) parts of Turkey, and these are populations that are centuries old. Immigration has been mainly situated in Western Europe as of recent times. Europe isn't made up of one religion, just like other continents aren't. Look at Asia. There's a large population of Muslims that exist there, in fact the largest. (Indonesia) But we also have Hinduism, Sikhism, Buddhism, Christianity, Confucianism and more.
No one looks as Asia and fears it's being dominated by one religion. Sure, there's conflict in every country and forever will be as long as power and control exists. However, your homogeneous perspective of Europe is really swaying your lens of reality and what it means to be European.

basilfawlty89 · 31-35, M

@Innsegall ooh not just Islamophobia and racism, but a healthy dose of antisemitism too.

CountScrofula · 41-45, M

@NickiHijab Man he's gonna hate to find out what Spain was like for around eight hundred years.

Innsegall · 41-45, M

@NickiHijab I'm talking about actual Europeans. The original inhabitants. Not the endless waves throughout history of invasions and manufactured mass movements of people...which amount to invasions. You just don't see it that way because you are a product of one of these countless invasions. These invasions also occur in Asia. You know, how white 'colonists' are now deemed historical invaders...which obviously, they were. How else would you colonise land which is not your native country? Spade is a spade.

basilfawlty89 · 31-35, M

@Innsegall white colonisers literally committed genocide, cultural erasure and forced their way of life at gunpoint. Hardly the same Muhammad coming over to drive a taxi.

CountScrofula · 41-45, M

@Innsegall You know borders are fake, right. Romans had more in common with Egyptians than they did Germans.

basilfawlty89 · 31-35, M

@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.

bijouxbroussard · F

@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. 🙁

CountScrofula · 41-45, M

@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.