Broadly speaking, you probably agree with the large majority of the views commonly attributed to whichever group you identify with - what are the exceptions? Something that if you mention without a caveat immediately makes people jump to conclusions or even attack you?

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      Some of us see how much damage magical thinking has done to humanity and the planet, I guess.

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      It has a lot to do with religious folks labeling themselves as an oppressed minority while being an overwhelming majority with tremendous power worldwide, especially in political leadership. For Christians, it’s an immediate reflex response to what religious folks don’t recognize is blasphemy, bringing up religion as the answer to a question nobody asked. I recognize that I just posted an America-default comment.

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        You’re forgetting the fact that many Christian sects are minorities and often sects hate/persecute each other, especially historically. Christianity comes in about 45,000 flavors. And many of them are radically different from each other.

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          And if you’re not a member of one of those specific groups they all look pretty much the same, and express the behavior I described in my comment. They may use their “minority” status as a predicate to making war with each other, but that wasn’t what I was talking about.

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              A belief system isn’t the same as a race, you jackass. People have control over what they believe. I’m well within my rights to discriminate against idiots for believing in fairy tales and attempting to persecute anyone who doesn’t believe the same fairly tales.

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      Considering the death toll religion has wrecked across history I think it’s fair to dislike the practice in the modern day. Like, don’t get me wrong I really care about the canon of my favourite stories but I’d never launch a crusade over someone elses fan fic of it.

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        As Carlin said “when it comes to bullshit you have to stand in awe of religion.”

        They pay no taxes, diddle kids, murdered millions…and you fucking show up to put MORE money in the collection plate‽ madness