Anti-atheist religious bigots have quite a knack for projection – projecting their faults onto those they are prejudiced against. Take for instance serial atheist-basher Ray Comfort and his new book You Can Lead an Atheist to Evidence, But You Can’t Make Him Think: Answers to Questions from Angry Skeptics. He claims we are angry, yet he is the one constantly bashing a large population.
There are good and bad people, atheist and religious. Atheists, in general, don’t go around bashing religious people for simply being religious. We criticize religion and the beliefs themselves, but since when are those beyond criticism? We disagree with and criticize their beliefs, but we don’t bash the people. Now, this is not to say we don’t criticize religious people, but it is for their actions. When actions that deserve criticism are religiously based or religiously justified, then are we not to bring that up? A bigot is a bigot, people should expect to be criticized for damaging, dangerous, and disgusting public actions justified religiously. Those are individual people, not all the religious. Comfort doesn’t make the same distinction when talking about atheists. He can’t get by his bigotry.