Would that be the Rathskeller? (AKA Rat cellar) Hangout of the freaks in a town devoted to freaks. Once the hangout of Edward Abbey, Jack Loffler (AKA Travis T Hip), Anton LaVey and numerous other well known freaks, all of which have at one time or other sworn that there is no God, but a couple of them now know better, I suspect.
Athiests persecuted? What a laugh! Especially in the Bay Area; it's a badge of honor.
"talibornagains"
By the most reasonable freepers here, right, 'MoM' ??
The blood of Calvinists bought freedom of speech.
I will never cease to be amazed that the ones that most value free speech are slandered by other conservatives with the "talibornagain" label..and then they give the left permission to use it as ammo to beat Christian conservatives .
Isaiah 5:20 Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!
I have immense difficulty viewing atheists as being "persecuted" in the Bay Area, and most of the atheists I know in the Bay Area (and there ARE loads of them here) are not the whining losers portrayed in the article. In fact, most of the Bay Area atheists I know are pretty conservative as a group in the strictly Constitutionalist sense. I would say that "atheist constitutionalist" describes a non-trivial percentage of the Silicon Valley engineering and executive professionals (with "non-trivial percentage" unfortunately being much smaller than the avalanche of sandal-wearing grass-eaters in the area).
I'm just going to guess that there is also a type of left-wing atheist that I just don't run into very often (by choice). They make all the conservative atheists look bad.