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Originally Posted by onesnowyowl
Val, I really liked your post, and I'd like to second something you said: it's not religion itself that's bad--it's zealotry. I am just as scared of an atheist zealot as I am of an Muslim one or a evangelical Christian one or even a zealot Episcopalian (I don't see this latter one happening though). Extremism is dangerous--wherever it happens.
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Zealotry isn't something to encourage but it just seems so much worse when it's religious. Richard Dawkins is about the most militant athiest I have ever heard of yet he's never killed a doctor or flew a plane into a building...
Anecdotally speaking, I've never heard of a religious figure who has gotten death threats from athiests. Yet,
Penn & Teller routinely get death threats from religious zealots who feel that they threaten the American way of life.
There just seems to be something much more sinister about religion than the lack, thereof...