“The rise of atheists today where hatred and intolerance of religion is banded about is considered acceptable opposition and condemnation.”
Um… Okay.
I mean, I have a first amendment right to blasphemy, against you, against Allah, against Zeus, Jehovah, Venus, Thor…
Of course, you have the same freedom to call all atheists wankers, too. And blaspheme Allah, Zeus, the Invisible Pink Unicorn….
“They get to kill religion, take down God, live up to the ideals of atheism, be seen as a hero.”
If your religion can be destroyed by the existence of critics, then why would you want to protect it?
And I have no idea what the ideals of atheism are supposed to be.
I don’t believe in any gods. You don’t believe in almost as many of the gods as I don’t. Amaterasu, Quetzalcoatl, Raven, Ki, Marduk… What are YOUR ideals of not believing in Odin and that whole pantheon?
“But to be able to accept the sacred right and freedom of worship our heroes fought and died for,”
I also served in the military to protect your right to worship. But that right doesn’t extend to forcing me to pretend to share that worship.
“and to be able to get over their theophobia”
Between the Inquisition, the Crusades, and the Witch Trials, it’s not a ‘phobia’ to fear what the religious can do.
“and get on with life without devoting it to attacking religion, that takes real guts, that makes them a hero.”
Ah. So, to be a hero, I have to leave your inaccuracies alone, your misconceptions, your historical revisionism?
Neh. I’ll be a spear carrier quite happily.