Occasionally, I see posts which ascribe the worst of some religion to all religion. If you are atheist, I have no issue and no intention of changing your beliefs. I come from a fairly liberal religious background and have become even more liberal as I've aged. I don't wish to impose my religious beliefs on any other person, and resent have others try to impose their beliefs on me.
At the same time, I resent having anti-theists condemn all religious belief. I am not of the ilk of the rigid fundamentalists, and I understand people have done and still do horrible things in the name of religion. I can condemn the ills of the over zealous without blaming all religion for that zealotry. Many believers are not intolerant, yet we face intolerance from both the anti-theists and the rigid fundamentalists.
Frankly I have unfollowed and unfriended people and groups who slam all religion and feel no hesitation about doing it again. It is one thing to have a civil discussion about the wrongs done by the uber-zealous, and it is something else to insult and denigrate what you disagree with.
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