I’ll tell you what you did with Atheists for about 1500 years. You outlawed them from the universities, or any teaching careers, besmirched their reputations, banned or burned their books or their writings of any kind, drove them into exile, humiliated them, seized their properties, arrested them for blasphemy. You dehumanized them with beatings and exquisite torture, gouged out their eyes, slit their tongues, stretched, crushed, or broke their limbs, tore off their breasts if they were a woman, crushed their scrotums of they were men, imprisoned them, stabbed them, disemboweled them, hung them, burnt them alive. And you have the nerve enough to complain to me that I laugh at you.
–Dr. Madalyn Murray O’Hair
Jesus would have loved them, and probably had dinner with them.
Remember, a new atheist is just any regular atheist who can’t be legally set on fire by the church.
Atheists do not deny the inherent sacredness of the universe. They deny the ability of man to truly understand it.