reply to post by sos37
It's not that it's cool to be anti-religious. It's that all the religious folks who decided that their beliefs should be upheld by the law of the
land kind of ruined it for them.
Back when religion and politics were things that didn't mix, religion wasn't an issue. If it were not for the fact that W and KR brought religion
into the mix of politics, the anti-religious movement wouldn't have any steam.
Now, granted there are many other reasons to be anti-religous today. Specifically the amount of self-hatred that many so called Christians practice
today as well as the hatred of others that many so called Muslims practice today.
Personally, I was raised in a Christian church that had an audience of farmers. We were never exhorted to hate ourselves or anyone else, simply to
pray for rain and help those in need. That being the case, I don't have an axe to grind with religion in general. However, I do have an axe to
grind with any citizen of America who doesn't believe in Freedom.
The thing that gets me is that, at least in Christianity, our avatar asks us to love our neighbors as our self, not turn our neighbors into ourself.
The whole point of this axiom was "Learn to love your neighbors despite what you see as their shortcommings, even as you love your ownself despite
your shortcomings."
This was a huge point of most avatars during the Axial Age because if a society is to find a social identity in a time when people of different
religious backgrounds and creeds live amongst eachother, then you have to learn to get along with them despite your differences. And running around
saying God Hates Fags (or whatever else someone wants to throw hate at) is not a method towards getting along.



