Reply #97: You're just not understanding the answer [View All]

[Stunster]

oft-discredited and debunked silliness about atheists and genocide?

Huh? In your dreams perhaps.

You see, this is precisely illustrative of the issues raised by the question.

You want me to answer a question about what constitutes unfair bashing as against fairly argued criticism. Well, to my mind, the record of militantly atheistic Communist regimes is very much fair game if we're talking about policies implemented by one side or the other, which apparently is what atheists want to talk about in relation to contemporary America.

You disagree with that, just don't want to hear about mass killing of religious believers by atheists, and feel that atheists have been unfairly tarred with the Communist brush, and regard my mentioning the actual record of atheistic political regimes as somehow 'atheist-bashing'.

I guess what I'm saying is, the irony is delicious.

See, what some people regard as fair criticism of religion is regarded by others as ludicrously unfair religion-bashing. When any believer protests, the atheists jump in with, "No, this is fair criticism, not unfair bashing." The Communist case just illustrates some atheists' inability to take the medicine they're so intent on dishing out to others.