Characterizing all Christians as hateful and racist is unfair. There are plenty of Christians that genuinely believe in Jesus and the Bible for more than the social power it provides. I was a staunch member of the New Atheist movement back when it was popular. Then I realized…Christians and even the Bible itself isn’t nearly as bad as they were making it out to be. It’s the same problem as say, communism or American Free Enterprise, or nationalism, or whatever: the human tendency of control others.

I’m of the opinion that almost everything is permissible as long it doesn’t interfere with the rights of others. They call this classical liberalism these days, but even the classical liberals made exceptions, permitting slavery, for example, or justifying the subjugation of Indians and Native Americans by considering them savages.

I, on the other hand, make no exceptions. If someone wants to devote their life to God, I’m 100% okay with that. If they want make me devote my life to god or to practice their version of Christianity by banning abortions, for example, then we’ve a problem.