If you are a shitty person, and you say shitty things, and you thrust yourself into the public eye, you get what you get.

People get to tell you that they think you're full of shit. That's not being silenced. That is a consequence of spewing garbage.

IF a Christian does NOT sense nor feel that he/she is being either criticized, persecuted, denied anything or everything then first words that will spew forth from their mouth is PERSECUTION.
Christians on the whole are the GREAT Fakers and Pretenders and have been so since almost day one.
One of their first ever shouts of "Persecution" arose when they decided that the Roman Empire was an excellent target for their form of propaganda and they literally INVENTED the " Feeding Christians to the Lions in the Arena," the Mass Executions of Christians by nailing them to stakes (NOT Crosses btw) in the same arenas and having chariots driven around them as bowmen shot arrows at them, then of course came the Christian fostered MYTH of Emperor Nero blaming the Christians for the Great Fire that engulfed a huge percentage of Rome itself, funny thing that since it is a well researched, examined and known historical FACT that the fire was most likely started by a burning ember spilling from a Cafe style eatery situated on the fringe of the area known as the Subura which was nowhere near the locale where the Christians resided and worshiped.
And the BIG point to remember is that Ancient Rome and the Romans were quite adept and happy to " add in" any and all NEW Deities from any cultures/Nations they conquered to their ever growing Pantheon of Deities, etc, etc.

Not having read the Post piece, I can at least say that the friendly atheist has this right about Christian nationalists: they use Christianity as cover for their own bigoted views, which, by and large, are not reflected in the teachings of Jesus. I would add that Christian nationalists do not express these views merely to participate in free and open exchange of ideas. Their ultimate aim is to gain power, and use that power to undemocratically subject others to their will. Christian nationalists are, in essence, fascists.

The New York Post is a perfectly good paper... for lining a bird cage

When one causes their own hell!!!

Religion causes more deception and deceit among believers of different sects of these so called same religious reality!!!

This was already posted somewhere else on Agnostic.