Victims of Love

[bobquasit]

I just posted this on a "Why do atheists persecute Christians" thread over on Askville. Since I suspect that it may get deleted, I'm saving a copy here.

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Speaking of persecution, the administrators of MySpace recently deleted the largest online Atheist and Agnostic group in the world. Why? Apparently Christians didn't like the fact that it existed.

The group had previously been attacked several times, and in one case was hijacked and renamed "The Jesus Group". Most regular members were banned by the hijacker(s), and many threads were deleted. And now the group has been deleted completely.

I think that for the most part in America, atheists persecute Christians the same way that Rodney King victimized the LAPD - by bruising their fists and damaging their nightsticks with his face and testicles.

Comments

[aurora-lamour.livejournal.com]

It goes both ways.

[bobquasit.livejournal.com]

Well, sure. It would be silly for me to try to put halos on atheists, after all! But the thing is, while there certainly are some aggressive and juvenile atheists (as there are in any group), you won't find them "persecuting" Christians here. For example, take the MySpace thing: I feel quite safe saying that if a group of 35,000 Christians had been hacked by an atheist group, and then deleted by the management of MySpace, EVERYONE would have heard about it.

But that sort of thing doesn't happen. Why?

Well, if I started to speculate I'd be here all night. But I think one point that's worth making is that the highest estimate I've ever seen for the percentage of atheists and agnostics in the US population was 16%. And realistically, the percentage is certainly much lower; somewhere around 5%-8% is my guess. And if we're talking out-of-the-closet atheists, probably not even 1%!

Okay, I should have noted that I'm about to get preachy, in an atheistic kind of way. :D

In America, atheists (and ALL non-Christians, excepting Jews) are ruled by Christians. We are a small minority. The idea that the relatively tiny number of atheists is persecuting the vast Christian majority is simply ludicrous. The documented cases of Christians persecuting atheists, on the other hand, speak for themselves. Heck, look at the Christian Dominionists! They actually advocate killing atheists. And homosexuals. And heretics. And those who commit adultery, and those who have pre-marital sex, and a huge number of other categories.

Not only that, they have a preferred METHOD - stoning. Why? Because stones are free, and that way it can be a community activity - even the kids can participate in killing the Godless. I'm really not kidding; you can look this stuff up for yourself.

You might think that these are just a bunch of cranks. But they wield incredible power. They have a shocking number of adherents in the White House, and the President himself has honored some of them.

The idea that atheists are persecuting Christians is a very USEFUL one. It gets people worked up, gets them to vote for the Party. And it's the oldest trick in the world; I'm risking Godwin's Law, but look at early Nazi propaganda. According to them, Jews were constantly on the attack against the German people!

It's an old, old story, unfortunately. Find a scapegoat, whip up hatred, and scream that the victims are actually the aggressors.

*sigh*

Sorry, I didn't mean to go on so long. It's a bad habit of mine.