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Originally Posted by padeligne
i am no lover of religion, but let us (the non-religious people) not get smug. atheists can be as intolerant as any fanatical religious maniac. a short look at the 20th century says enough. to be truly tolerant is not easy. every day, every moment we have to check our attitude to others.
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My friend, this is not matter of religion and atheism ( i'm a neo-pagan and my God is the Nature
). The problem is the intolerance of the religious people towards all the sexual differences. The priestly caste always persecuted the "deviants", and we, from their point of view, ARE deviants. I live in Italy and ensure you that the catholic church, in her large majority, hate the homosexuals and transsexuals in a terrible way. And even worse are the religious people who repute us ill and want to "cure" us. You say we have to be tolerant, but our opponents are not tolerant. We have to fight hardly for our rights.
"Conformity" and intolerance are the worst enemies of happyness. Look at some islamic countries, where homosexuals suffer the death sentence. We must defend our happiness against the priestly caste.
