to hear many atheists<\/a>, theirs is a plight of persecution, discrimination, bigotry and oppression that they brave every day to \u00a0bring the objective, neutral truth of their knowledge. \u00a0So on behalf of suffering and oppressed atheists everywhere in our colleges, media outlets, and pop culture venues, I offer this song of sympathy and understanding:<\/p>\n*Many atheists explain that when an atheist does something good, that proves how intellectually and morally superior atheism is; when an atheist does something bad, it\u2019s either because he\/she treated atheism like a religion, or you simply can\u2019t blame atheism since atheism doesn\u2019t really exist. <\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Despite the deplorable track record of French anti-clericalism, Communist atheism, and secular philosophies and the crushing persecution of religion that occurred over the last 200 years*, despite atheists with a sympathetic ear in academia and the media effectively shrinking the domain for religious expression and practice until it\u2019s confined to the church and synagogue and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2805,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\n
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