Are you closing in on reality? Be careful, the further from the powertrip of Religion ..the closer you get to appearing rabid, militant, or Atheist ~

I am an atheist. If some mentally defective person tries to ram his particular god down my throat I become a rabid militant atheist towards that person. If a theist is polite towards me, I am equally polite in return.

I saw something once that really impressed me. A group of young jewish men on some sort of pilgrimage were being lead by a an old rabbi and they had to pass thru an area with a lot of scantily clad women. The didn't act like muslims or christias and expect everyone else to obey their views and accommodate them.

The young men formed a line behind the rabbi and closed their eyes with their hands on each other's shoulders, the rabbi, who was old, married and considered able to resist temptation, lead them thru the area.

Ok, those people may be religious, but I respect them for understanding their views are their problem, no one else's. Hence I won;t mock them or say anything negative about their views.

I'm agonstic and admit it's possible that any given religion may actually be right, even if I believe and feel they aren't. I only attack religions if I see them as causing harm or suffering.

So if I don't leap to the side of every anti theist who attacks a religion it might be because i don't see that religion as deserving it.

That is not the people here

Me either.

Please define "Rabid militant atheist".

So, any atheist who criticises religion is rabid and militant? Do you also equate "attack" with "criticise"?

Your 'agnostic skeptic" position seems like the typical 20th Century agnosticism and atheism. Don't know if you noticed, but that tolerance was rewarded by Islamic fanaticism, religious fundamentalism, rancid evangelism and alike, so, many of us consider it to have been a failed approach, and serious progress has been made in this century by exposing fraudulent religious history, theology, administration and practice and criminality, by criticising and "attacking" it (if you like) and many of us wish to see more and more of it.

I'll believe religions are tolerant when "In God We Trust" is no longer on our government issued currency

Just a thought. Why would you tell us what you WON’T do?

What about telling what you think to open a discussion?