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It also happens to be the case that atheism is the easiest of these traits to hide. Membership in an organized religion is probably traceable, homosexuality is traceable unless you spend your entire adult life denying a fundamental fact about yourself, and the other categories are visually apparent. While I find it disheartening that 15% of TFPers, let alone 53% of Americans, are so religiously prejudiced, atheists at least have the option of keeping their infidel status hidden.
EDIT: And what the hell is up with Mormon-haters on this website? I thought we were supposed to be progressive.
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The peculiar evil of silencing the expression of an opinion is, that it is robbing the human race; posterity as well as the existing generation; those who dissent from the opinion, still more than those who hold it. If the opinion is right, they are deprived of the opportunity of exchanging error for truth: if wrong, they lose, what is almost as great a benefit, the clearer perception and livelier impression of truth, produced by its collision with error. ~John Stuart Mill, On Liberty
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