Reply #45: patronizing silence about fundamentalist Christian beliefs helped? [View All]

While we were mostly being silent, they transferred that "blind faith" model to politics, and for a time, if not still now, it's not hard to imagine Rush Limbaugh or James Dobson telling Christians that non-believers are a physical threat to them and they must come after us before we come after them.

We need to find a new way of dealing with religion besides ignoring it, saying it's all good, or attacking it.

You have the right to believe whatever you want, but you don't have the right to be free of hearing other people ask rational questions about it, and even ask them of you.

Incidentally, someone's belief in alternative medicine could end up hurting their kids, just as Christian Science and other faith healing religions do.