...it is also clear (to me at least), that you weren't after answers, but you simply used this question as a vehicle to convey your barely disguised disdain for atheists. And while I do not label myself in such a way, I admire atheists because they have consciously taken the decision to acknowledge reason and reality, and to stop trying to define it using fables and myths as their guide. Atheists may not know everything, but they know bullshit when they see it.

Likewise, anyone who is intelligent enough to be able to distinguish the difference between a frothing-at-the-mouth lunatic religionist and the so-called "liberal" ones, should also be smart enough to realize that non-believers don't give a crap about what a religionist thinks about them -- whatever their flavor. Only what they do. And in this instance what we've seen liberal religionists do (with respect to the issues you raise in your query) is: squat. Liberal religionists from my experience, appear more than willing to just sit on their arses while others of their ilk but on the other end of the continuum, deny and refute the so-called "Good News." But if liberal religionists are willing to be defined by these ignorant mutants, then that's your business.

We non-believers simply want you to keep your views, no matter how liberal you think they are, out of our civil life. And then you can go on about your business and we'll go on about ours. However, know this: we will not be silenced just because you choose to remain so. And if you dislike being lumped together with the crazies among you, then that's something only you can change. But it will never change, unless and until you open your mouth and say ENOUGH!



OUR SILENCE