We do have sympathy towards religious people,I never trash them,I do work for the church, they tell me about religion all the time, sometimes I reveal that I am atheist,and some religious people are okay with that,some get offensive and ask,how i even got the job.

@m0752532706 My apologies if I misjudged you ... it's just that your last question makes one wonder. The 'problem with today's human beings' is, after all, not very different from the problems of prior generations ... agreed?

what is well known, and by whom? you mean it is well known that christians are being mind-controlled, which christians tend NOT to know, or that christians think atheists are satanic, which isn't even universally true? most of the christians i have met in my life did NOT think atheists are satanic. also, i have never been christian, and yet i often see atheism presented as the opposite of christianity. i wasn't a christian even when i wasn't yet an atheist. and the christians i knew as a child tended to disallow me in their homes, throw things at me, call me names and more, and i wasn't an atheist as a child. that's just how they dealt with jews, even jewish children. but religious jews are not atheists and they don't think atheists are satanic, nor throw things at christians, or at atheists. meanwhile, regarding sympathy, yes i have a generalized sympathy for those whose minds are being controlled. i have more sympathy for those NOT telling me i am evil than for those who ARE telling me that.

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@genessa What is well known, or should be, is that devout Christians view atheism, which is to deny or blaspheme the Holy Spirit, as the 'unpardonable sin.'

"Truly I tell you, people can be forgiven all their sins and every slander they utter, but whoever blasphemes against the Holy Spirit will never be forgiven; they are guilty of an eternal sin."
Mark 3:28-29 (NIV)

And what is well known, or should be, is that devout Christians often see themselves as Christians first, with an identity that is so strong that nonbelief (or the beliefs of other faiths) are viewed as threatening.

And what should also be well known to all who do not suffer from religious convictions, is that, like so many religions, the attitude of religious faith--which is to say, willful ingorance and believing in things one cannot possibly know--serves to police one's very thoughts--thought control.

Finally, what I did NOT say was that Christians think atheists are satanic. Please reread what I wrote. I recalled how I was raised to believe that atheism was equivalent (as in, on par with) the source of all evil. Devout Christians view all sinful behavior as being influenced by the Devil, but that's a far cry from Satanism.

@pnfullifidian lol you quote the christian bible to tell me what is well known, but i am not familiar with the contents of the christian bible, and i am guessing an awful lot of christians aren't either (or they wouldn't keep making up stuff about abortion, for example). as for what SHOULD be well known, that is not always what IS well known. also i didn't mention satanism as a religion. something that is satanic is simply devilish. it is an adjective that is often used just to denote being satan-like. i was not referring to satanism, the entity.

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Well put