I vacillate between ridicule and sympathy... it's definitely a challenge to remain sympathetic toward a group that is responsible for the highest number of attempted book bans in 20 years, who are yanking human rights from citizens everywhere you turn, taking away our freedom and telling us to live as they do or they will find a way to rule over us by force and fear.
But okay, okay, being snarky and shitty towards others is not who I want to be...
And then I get sympathetic and feel sorrow for the myth Christians have given their lives to, for their shaky morals and fear of others who are different than their group, for the box they have put themselves in.
This world is a wonderous place, even more so the more I learn!
Why aren't more Christians living by the teachings of the bible? Maybe if we ban it, more Christians would read it... that seems to be how it's going with other book bans.
No, seriously, why can't we ban it? What makes the atrocious stories in the bible okay for young children?
Religions are going to be ridiculed and mocked... just as many other things people do or believe in are on a daily basis. I'm sorry, but Christians are not in a special class, and your beliefs and teachings are not off-limits to question and study.
It's okay. Trust me when I say that- I've been mocked, ridiculed, chastised, and looked-down-on for my non-belief my whole life. It is okay!! Life can still be amazing!
Others exercising their beliefs or living their own lives really has no bearing on you! Even if they mock you. That says more about them than it does you, right? You can be unaffected by what other people believe and live according to YOUR beliefs, right? Well, that's the ideal anyway, but you know, Christians are actively trying to make their beliefs and rules be everyone's beliefs and rules... and I have to live with that everyday, and fight to change that everyday...
So, yeah, atheists may ridicule and mock religions- but many won't. Some go back and forth, like me. There is a place for all of us to make a difference, and in different ways.
Your god, according to the loud and very vocal Christians, is a pretty nasty invisible force... I have no desire to live my life in fear or be told I was made broken only to be saved by said invisible being. Why would I believe such a thing when I've no evidence to support that theory, and when the alternative is so much better?