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I've had the other kind, too. As once during the Reagan years when I happened to be walking across a college campus and a snaggle-toothed, bag-lady looking type (probably head of the womyn's studies department or similar) came up to me and asked if I'd like to discuss "revolutionary policies".

She burrowed in like a tick, oblivious to any subtle hints, so I finally dislodged her by saying that I thought David Stockman was a genius.

She immediately left in a huff.

Mission accomplished! :-)

But as far as being as grotesque as Muslims. No, they're not.

I don't recall anyone chanting "Jesus is Lord!" or "Hail Mary, full of grace!" while hijacking a loaded jumbo jet and flying it into a skyscraper.

Don't let your exasperation drive you into exaggeration :-)

(Back when I was an atheist, I remember turning on the TV to watch a long-awaited TV special only to find some religious broadcast in its place. After 10 minutes of roundly chewing them out, I took another look and realized I had misread the TV guide and my show hadn't been pre-empted at all. I still have to relearn that lesson from time to time.)

Cheers!

I didn't say "as groteque as muslim terrorists." But your run of the mill sneering "You are dogs and pigs" type? Yes. I'm serious. Free Republic has loads and loads of religious threads. Catholic threads, devotional threads, prayer threads... they don't want us atheists on them, and once I figured out how to identify them, I never went on one again. If they could just have the DECENCY not to gloat over an atheist's death, they'd rise a lot in my regard. You know, they are better behaved when a liberal dies than when an atheist dies. That's just sick.

Now, I've said about six times on this thread exactly what about this disgusts me. Either people can read what I'm actually saying, or they are adding "stupid" to "rude." I'm sorry to be abrupt, but I'm just in no mood for this.