Some good Christians would still be good without the threat of hell. All good Atheists are good without the threat of hell. It's that simple.

And I don't know if Kat is Christian or not, but she starred my post, so I agree she must be awesome.

That wouldn't surprise me at all. It's also not a huge surprise that marriages spawned out of affairs generally fail.

It is shitty. I've heard that statistically, when a cheating spouse ends their own marriage, it's usually because they are leaving right into the arms of the person they have been conducting the affair with.

I have the feeling these are the kind of women you wouldn't really want to marry in the first place.

Religious beliefs or lack thereof are no indication of morality.

The average person is also an idiot, so it's not exactly necessary to speak in a way which will appease them.

You are drawing some distinctions that I don't think are quite as useful as you might think they are. Now, that said, I appreciate you actually taking the time to ask questions and try to understand. That is unfortunately a very rare disposition.

This. I have actually found that coming out as an atheist is a great barometer for other people's morality. If they ask me how I manage to behave morally without God...I run very fast in the other direction, because they clearly think humans need an external threat to be decent. Everything these people say is…

When I see crap like that ad, I really want to take out one of my own:

This kind of shit is why it drives me fucking nuts when people try to play off the whole queer equality vs homo/transphobes thing as a "difference of opinion".

I kind of wish someone would do a rebuttal to this (to try and get through to some of the thick-headed conservatives) along the lines of "Do you not want a MALE showering next to your 14-YEAR-OLD DAUGHTER? Great, then you should support this policy so that the trans boy that's been forced by the school to shower next…

These are also people who openly state that the only thing keeping people (presumably including themselves) from going around raping and murdering each other en masse is the threat of eternal damnation.

Conservatives really do believe that the Y chromosome contains the unsatiable lust for rape.

Great article. I'm impressed by your ability to respond to their bullshit without going full-on flamethrower. Your tone was impressive and powerful.

Hmmm. Conservatives lying about LGBT issues. Also, water wet and sun hot.

Sigh. Deep down, I know that. A little part of me always wants to hope for extreme ignorance rather than deliberate hatefulness.

A 14-year-old trans girl is someone's daughter. Oh, and 14-year-old trans boys really exist. I promise. They're not unicorns or faeries.

They knew.

This question comes from a place of complete ignorance. If it's trollish and actually or potentially hurtful, please dismiss/delete it ASAP and accept my profuse apologies. Again, I'm extremely ignorant: