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Originally Posted by MrSelfDestruct
When you're in a 10% minority and a significant portion of the other 90% actively engage in societally acceptable discrimination ranging from trying to tell you you're wrong all the way to believing that your contrary belief (or lack of belief) means that you're incapable of being anything but evil, you tend to want to speak out at those whose beliefs not only seem absurd, but cause them to hate you for thinking differently.
I guess the simple way to say it is that it's hard to keep your mouth shut when most of the world is against you.
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I can see where the frustration might come in. Lord knows that i'm often frustrated by the pigheadedness of the pious. However, it doesn't seem to me to be all that constructive to essentially adopt the tactics (as dawkins has) of your religious persecutors by proselytizing and condemning those who disagree with you.
Not all religious folk are intolerant of atheists just as not all atheists are intolerant of religious folk. Dawkins and his ilk appear to be, and to me that makes them just as bad as that guy on the bus who asks you if you have a close personal relationship with jesus christ.