re: #89 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

(clipped out of the long comment)

Christians, especially right-wing Christians, have been calling us atheists Marxists (and God-haters, and evil, &c) all my life. This is nothing new.

What is new is now they are a lot more violent as they reject the idea of a secular state which preserves their religious freedom as well as ours. That is why so many children are thrown out of homes of every denomination now when a child says she does not believe or believes something else. It is why we get death threats.

So many religious people mix up “what they believe” with “who they are,” and when a person exists in their space who does not believe as they, they view it not as a different belief (or no belief) but as a personal attack on them.

In some it only triggers casting out the unbeliever. In others it triggers violence.

I’m just going to point out that you can be a Christian and still be regarded as an unbeliever by these people. Ask me how I know. Let’s just say that church people are truly surprised when someone like me shows up on their sidewalk. And then they spend time trying to figure out where I’m a heretic so they can disavow me. That’s easy, actually, I’ll drop an F-bomb.