While I absolutely agree with the "tarred with the same brush" defensive tactics that the religious use in these cases on a basis of people are not all the same, there is no denying that this sort of abuse is not uncommon towards atheists who question strongly the believers in the public arena.
This for me, at least shows that the "god provides morals" argument is pretty weak.
If the religion cannot at least provide enough inspiration (or maybe even control) over this type of blatent non-forgiving intolerant attitude and arrogant diatribe which seems to portray the giver pretty much as someone who is mentally unstable, what is the point in taking it up?
It surely leads to shooting the more placid followers of these errant doctrines in both feet from the more uninformed public point of view?.
I also don't see anything like the slapdowns from their fellow's like, for instance, the science/atheist community might dish out to such miscreants.
No. All we get is the mealy mouthed unsubstantial platitudes thats says the obvious, "we are'nt all like that".
Well we knew that already..........and these vociferous big-headed loud mouths never listen to the milder ones in their midst.
It surely is a classic "backs against the wall" defence system that the meme takes up in it's own defence.
It shows clearly the fact that the actual religion is powerless irrational stupidity. Other wise surely it would take a more rational (?) approach first?
I cant say I've ever heard an atheist wish publicly for such thing on the religious, clever dialogue is enough.....
