There is always a group of people that want to go along and get along, which is fair and it works in many cases but it doesn't work with religion because all religions command their followers to kill the heretic, the infidel, the nonbeliever. So understand that if you are an Atheist then you are the enemy of the religious believer because you point out what should be obvious to everyone - That the Emperor has NO Clothes.

Crushing their Scrotums.....that is some serious stuff.

,,,you be preachin to choir with me bro....that is why I preach against religions, all of them...

I think she wasn't all that good for Atheism, many issues surrounding her.

OK, yeah, it's the truth. Madalyn did have a way of getting under peoples' skins. She made almost as many enemies in the atheist community as she did in the religious communities.

But, at the same time, where do you go with that from here? I am an atheist, but I am not a 24/7 atheist. Sometimes I build robots or bake bread or work on my web page. It's a part of me, but it's not all of me.

Sure, those things happened, and in some countries, far worse things are being done to atheists.

But what do you expect any of us to do about that? I used to have a chip on my shoulder, going into religious discussion forums, acting all superior. But in the end I found out that these were basically good people who had been led to believe that atheism was evil.

The main difference between them and me is that like me, they thought about the Big Issues; they just accepted predigested answers, instead of doing the hard work and finding the answers on their own.