Has General Discussion Been Hostile to Religious Believers recently?

[thucythucy]

312. Whatever Warren.

This is obviously an issue of tremendous significance to you. As I said, you're on a mission, as much a zealot as any evangelical. They feel smug about being saved, you feel smug about being smart. And like a Mormon or Jehovah's Witness taking on a particular neighborhood, you've taken on Democratic Underground as your parish, mission, community of those who need to be "saved."

Contempt is such an ugly thing. Don't see that it produces much by way of votes or moving a progressive agenda.



Edited to add: and I notice in your "mea culpa" you refer to being corrected in your ignorance as being "bashed." You feel "bashed" about being corrected on a matter of simple fact, having little or nothing to do with your personal identity.

And yet you simply cannot fathom why people who have encountered your abject scorn around their personal beliefs and lived experiences might feel even the slightest degree of hurt.

Evidently being an atheist has done nothing to enhance your sense of empathy, nor of irony.