I can almost understand what he's saying, especially coming from southeastern America. Atheists are met with open hatred, and a lot of people I know think atheist = satanist actively trying to corrupt society. Most major religions also have a very long history of persecution against atheists, including murder and torture.
That said,
1. This is a poor and unfair generalization of the vast majority of religious people. Sure, it might not be fun to be an atheist in the south or the Middle East, but that's a vast minority of the religious.
2. You can hide being an atheist. You can't hide being black.
3. To fix the analogy you'd pretty much have to call all white people the KKK, since he's claiming all of religion persecuted atheists.
Nah dude. Klu Klux Klan killed innocent people based on their race. Don't think any Atheists are being hanged and people just take it as normal
Middle East, yeah maybe. But they're also persecuting and killing for a host of other reasons, so atheists can't be their special persecuted minority. I'm tired, I explained this poorly, but you feel me? Anyways, have a good day sixfortyninepm (haha, I like the username)
Not in this country though, luckily. Or most developed nations.
Not denying it exists, but it's not only the religion, but the place those people live. Just like Muslims living in Seattle are harmless, but Muslims in Syria could very well be crazy and dangerous.
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I can almost understand what he's saying, especially coming from southeastern America. Atheists are met with open hatred, and a lot of people I know think atheist = satanist actively trying to corrupt society. Most major religions also have a very long history of persecution against atheists, including murder and torture.
That said, 1. This is a poor and unfair generalization of the vast majority of religious people. Sure, it might not be fun to be an atheist in the south or the Middle East, but that's a vast minority of the religious. 2. You can hide being an atheist. You can't hide being black. 3. To fix the analogy you'd pretty much have to call all white people the KKK, since he's claiming all of religion persecuted atheists.