[annalex]

You rephrase my original thesis, more or less: atheists have no ability and possibly less need to glorify their worldview and the little need that they have is in the bumper sticker domain. When they get too obnoxious, force would be justified to enforce public decency.

[Stone Mountain]

You rephrase my original thesis, more or less: atheists have no ability and possibly less need to glorify their worldview and the little need that they have is in the bumper sticker domain. When they get too obnoxious, force would be justified to enforce public decency.

Boy, I was with you right there until your last sentence... but I believe we have the right to be obnoxious in this country, even if it is a right I rarely exercise (although some might disagree with me on that!).

[MineralMan]

"When they get too obnoxious, force would be justified to enforce public decency.
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Uffda! So, if they say something you don't like, blasphemy, for example, you feel justified in using force to stop them.

If my hypothetical bumper sticker said: "There is no God...damn it!" you'd feel justified in using force to stop me from saying that?

Sorry, annalex, that' ain't American.