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Why not just make atheism a religion? Why do you need a God to have a religion? Just use a humanist doctrine.

Why is it on us to "prove" that we're not all the things they claim we are (Satanists, arrogant, angry, rebellious, licentious, etc)? That's just gaslighting on their part. And what is more likely to be true -- that they think we're those things for good reason or because they demonize us because we represent an existential threat to their ideology (especially those of us who are deconverts)?

The malfunction that theists have with atheism isn't that we aren't nice and respectful enough. It's that we give the lie to their failed theory of knowledge (religious faith). They durst not acknowledge that we have chosen our path because it's a considered opinion, even a misguided one. Our reasons MUST be nefarious.

In my experience, at least with respect to fundamentalists, you can't be kind, respectful, gentle and walk on eggshells enough to not offend these persecution whores. They are intellectually dishonest and emotionally manipulative, and absolutely refuse to afford the respect and human dignity to us that they demand we provide them. They feel entitled to unearned deference and respect in the marketplace of ideas, and always have, and always will.

In addition, particularly in the past couple of years, they have completely lost any deference or respect I might have had for their good intentions and morality, due to their utterly craven enabling of people like Donald Trump and Roy Moore.

Go ahead, prove that you've quit beating your wife, if you want to; I'm not into it.

And yet, fundamentalist religions demand my respect, when one of their prime functions is to try and destroy atheism and agnosticism. In centuries past, they would have physically destroyed me because I am an atheist. In some parts of the planet, I would still be put to death today, because I don't conform to their religious beliefs.
THAT is the kind of religion that I think everybody, not just atheists, should be working to destroy- the kind that isn't content simply to believe, and let others believe what they want, but instead insists that all must believe as we do- or else. The kind of religion that leads to wars, murders, and televangelists.

Well put.

I don't see why we shouldn't destroy religion. Think about it....wouldn't you like to free the slaves of religious fables?

We are legion.