re: #230 William Barnett-Lewis

Saying that religion is harmful is not the same as hating its practitioners. That’s a sidestep, a rhetorical lie that attempts to turn reason and criticism of these nonsense systems of thought into a hate crime so that you can dismiss that criticism and marginalize the critics as if they were haters.

You and Obdicut are both guilty of letting the truth slip so that you can use this ever so convenient rhetorical cudgel.

But attacking religion is not the same as demonizing or attacking or hating people who believe that religion.

If we allow the criticism to be construed as bigotry then we might as well give up on rationality.