re: #394 Hhar

You mean polite non mentions like Both sides try to persuade, although the atheists are rather new at it, and therefore comparably quite clumsy and hamhanded in their proselytizations, but only one side has tried to coerce. And succeeded in doing so, a lot throughout history, by employing extreme and unconscionable measures.
hmm?

Iit looks to me like a commitment to historical veracity went right out the window there, so maybe that particular feeling doesn’t run as deep in you as some others. Without malice, I suggest that you work hard to identify what those other feelings are.

When you brought up that there were indeed several 20th century instances of atheistic communist despots persecuting religionists, I immediately agreed, although with the caveat that the lion’s share of coercion, over a period many times longer, still remained with the religionists, a fact with which you have agreed.