Peter, is that you?

This is why America needs ranked choice voting. The sooner you have ranked choice voting, the sooner smaller parties and independant candidates will become more viable in local government, and then later national government. 

They will start self censoring essential character traits like Kerrigan’s bone high heels! Where will it end?!

I don’t know.

As a currently unemployed game dev I would like to say to you F off.

Why does anyone work a job they don't like? Because they have to to pay rent and eat

I get to write about video games for a living, have cheap rent (thanks Kansas!) but also have fast internet because I live near Kansas City.

I wrote a slightly critical thing about Star Wars. I knew what I was getting myself into. 

Most folks don’t know this, but right before Yoda lifted that X Wing out of the swamp, he smashed a few snakes to death with his walking stick.

I’m going to give you the benefit of the doubt that you mixed the two up here.

It’s not that disagreeing with me or acknowledging religion as sometimes a force for great damage is bad. It’s the whole mocking tone and use of insulting words that gets me. “Fuck religious people” was said earlier. “People who believe are stupid.” How are those not personal attacks?

People can be shitty. Religious or otherwise. There is PLENTY of secular violence throughout history. Science supported/justified racism alongside (not because of) religion. Pol Pot didn’t massacre 1.5 million Cambodians because of his religious beliefs. Hitler utilized religion to justify the holocaust, he also used…

Okay. I’ll acknowledge I’m talking mostly about what people colloquially call “militant atheism” — basically, everyone in this damn thread who is going “you’re an ignorant moron.” There are people who coast along and just don’t believe, and there are people who make it their mandate to stomp on people who believe…

And hardline atheists are the majority in my communities on the internet, but they act like shitting on religion is still “punching up.”

I have never been on board with “sins of the father.” I mean I acknowledge that religions -- and atheism, by the way -- have done some awful things. But like, I do my best to not support that and to make what communities I’m in, welcoming and kind. IDK what else you want besides all of us to be punching bags to let…

It’s a great irony of the internet that certain groups are allowed to punch hard and the rest of us have to take it.

The one person speaking truth in this irony-ridden godawful thread.

Well last I checked I did nothing to you. I think there are more inoffensive religious types around than you think — you just see the assholes. Kinda like how every atheist I’ve formally met online is a jackass, because the ones who aren’t, don’t crow about it.

I will absolutely not get in the way of people trying to air out the dirty laundry. What I am saying here was just, not all religious people suck, and going all “but invisible sky fairy lol” is pretty fucking insulting to people who genuinely believe. No wonder no one wants to have dialogue with internet atheists.

Agree so hard with the first paragraph. I find the second pretty offensive to literally anyone with a religion, though. Back up on the name calling.