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Your contention is simply false as you misunderstand the point.

Atheists expect to be mocked and laughed at by the religious.

The point is that religious people should expect to be mocked and accept that fact. They should not argue that it is improper and that religion somehow implicitly deserves reverence.

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Perhaps I did. When someone mentions religious people and anti-vaxxers in the same thought as people who expect to be mocked, it's difficult to not see some underlying scorn for religious people in there.

Also, religious people have been mocked, enslaved, imprisoned, tortured and killed en masse for what? 6000 years now?

> Also, religious people have been mocked, enslaved, imprisoned, tortured and killed en masse for what? 6000 years now?

Frequently (though of course, not always) by other religious people. I don't think that argument holds a lot of weight.

Don't you think those "other religious people" may have used religion as pretext to achieve whatever they desired. E.g currently "democratic" societies act the same way to spread "democracy" through all means and at all costs.

The two recent genicides that I can think of: Germany and Serbia weren't done by religious people.

Do you have any examples of genocide in the name of religion? Crusades maybe.

Exactly.

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