Atheists have less free speech than religious groups.

And notice how even here I followed up the Muslim line with a Christian one.

That really doesn't help in chritian's or muslim's eyes.

it does edge a bit too close to hate speech

It's also wrong, words like delusional and deranged are used to classify behavior that goes against typical human behavior, if religious people were the vast minority of humans, it would make sense to make such classifications, but when over 90% of the population has some kind of supernatural belief, that unfortunately means that holding such beliefs is natural to our species.

And yes, it's a problem that in christian dominated countries christians get special treatment when doing the exact same thing someone else would do, but that doesn't mean we should be as bigoted as they are, we need to be better than them, as much as I would love that people would stop beliving through rational means, it's much more likely that it's emotion that will do it, and if we act towards them like they act towards us, they'll only have their beliefs about us reinforced; I'm not saying there aren't times to stand and fight, but geting under their skins like that isn't useful to convince anyone.

I'm also not saying anyone has to go around being the perfect atheists for others to see, if you can't do this kind of thing right now, that's okay, but try not to make it worse by using words like that, specially when they're not the right ones.

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