as a child growing up in the south, one suffered at the hands of sanctimonious bullies whose loving Christian God evidently recommended the tormenting of atheist and Jewish children
I recall your writing about your childhood experiences before. It's easy to see why you are so angry. I posted at length about my anger over the Bush swearing-in ceremony and that was a very mild rebuke compared to what you experienced as a child. I can't begin to argue with your in-your-face anger.
I'm just saying to those who would make RU486 illegal and who defend the Global Gag Rule, get off our backs with your religion and any of its wildly, abusively intrusive, irrational, inhumane, and specifically religious rules; this is as much our country as it is yours.
I despise these policies as much as you do and for the same reasons.
I agree that it's in-your-face; but I didn't choose it either, I was raised an atheist
What I don't see is how religious prejudice and religiously based public policies determine one's personal religiosity. I was raised a Catholic, but I ain't one any more. I experienced some prejudice over my religion when I was a child, but that had nothing to do with my remaining a Catholic or moving on. If you were raised an atheist and are now an atheist it's either because you were so brainwashed you can't evolve your beliefs (and I know you're too smart for that), because you hold a mature belief that there is no god, or because you have some sentimental attachment to your childhood belief system. That fundamentalist Christians can be real SOBs is a reason to be repelled by bigotry, sanctimony, and arrogance and to perhaps be hostile to the fundamentalist Christian political movement. It's not a reason to be an atheist, IMO.
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