Get a load of this!

[AlbertCat]

from another group

"The world in which these anti-theists want to live in is one in which there is Atheist privilege - on the grounds that they are in the right and the rest of us are wrong. Atheists get to hold public office, atheists get preferential job treatment, atheists get all the societal benefits that Christianity in say that 1950s and 1960s got."

I can't post in this oh so fair-minded group, but if I could, I'd say:

"So, you admit atheists were (50s & 60s) and are (like you're doing now) persecuted against and held in contempt by theists. And now you project and unjustly apply this theist prejudice to atheists in your fantasy, as if there is remotely any danger of it ever happening."

I sometimes wonder if they read what they wrote.

[mr blur]

2. No, I don't think they do. Dunno which group you mean, but

it's probably where I'm banned too. Not hard to be banned from there - in fact it's almost a rite of passage. There should be a badge for it.

Hh, there probably is.

[Promethean]

3. To quote the imperfect immortal Hitch

"Religion poisons everything."

This is supposed to be a liberal/progressive website but look at how those values crumble in the face of religion. You wonder why they are so hostile to us in the religion group? This demonstrates it clearly. That is what they think of us. Not even the benefit of the doubt. They go straight to we want to destroy everything because we are evil.

[mountain grammy]

4. Wow, what group is that?

Atheist privilege?

[Curmudgeoness]

5. Apparently, they do read what they type.

At least, that is what they have to say about it. They also just told us that they hang out here reading what is posted in A&A.

[Yorktown]

6. Since you mentioned Ruby Rhod, why not send a negotiator to your theists?

[trotsky]

7. The Christian Privilege Checklist

https://humanities.asu.edu/christian-privilege-checklist

Echoes too of right-wing homophobic bigots complaining about "teh gays" getting "special rights" and their poor, poor heterosexual "lifestyle" soon being persecuted.

How sad.

[edhopper]

8. link please?

i'd like to read that discussion. I need a laugh.

[AlbertCat]

9. Watch it... your eyes may roll 360º...twice

http://www.democraticunderground.com/12647191


I love the "nut or KKK" line. So... what if they ARE acting like a nut (handling snakes) or the KKK (kill all the gays!)

I guess we are taking away their right not to be criticized. One I didn't know existed as a "right". Which Amendment is that in? 2.5?


I thought it was just more religious privilege.

[edhopper]

10. I think they mistake the forum for discussing Religion

for a Forum for the Religious.

We could make them happy and call it;
"The no challenge to RELIGION Forum"

[Act_of_Reparation]

11. The problem being, of course...

...is that they already have several "No Challenge to Religion" forums, and by and large they simply don't use them.

[edhopper]

12. Well

they seem to use them to complain about atheists.

[trotsky]

13. Which then betrays the whole charade.

It's not about having discussions about religion, it's about silencing non-believers.

[Act_of_Reparation]

15. I don't even think it's about that, to be honest.

If we all stopped participating on DU, I should think the religion forum would go the way of all the other religious safe-havens. That is to say, it would be deader than fucking disco.

I think there are a number of people who, for as much as they condemn virulent atheists, actually thrive on the acrimony the religion forum provides. No one is required to read the religion forum, or even to visit DU. Involvement in this site is entirely voluntary. I can only conclude, therefore, that everyone participating here does so because they find it rewarding on some level.

[onager]

16. Disco's dead?

Hmph. Electric balalaikas FTW!

[Act_of_Reparation]

17. Well... that was... interesting

Now I gotta balance this equation of weirdness out.

[onager]

18. Zappa is always the right answer.

As for "Disko Partizani" - I first heard it late at night in Los Angeles, on a 1-watt college radio station's "World Music" program.

Like yourself, my first reaction was: "WTF was THAT?"

Looked it up and tried to get the lyrics after the first English verse. That became really interesting.

Some actual Romanian people on the internet said part of the lyrics were definitely Romanian and they understood them. But some of the singing, they guessed, was in a local Romany/Gypsy dialect and they couldn't figure it out either.

[skepticscott]

19. Oh, no question

There are lots of the religionists who claim to be champions of civility and tolerance, but the truth is that they love a good dust-up as much as anyone. They dive right in and fling bile and insults with the best of them. Of course, it's never their FAULT. They were always "provoked" or had their "buttons pushed" or some other lame excuse. They don't even have the gumption to own their own words and their own behavior.

[PassingFair]

14. Well, their spiritual leader seems to have taken a powder...

and there is no one in charge to rally the religious tropes.