One pastor burns a Quran, and every government in the Western world gets on his case to stop. He gets a personal call from President Obama. He gets several death threats. The British government remarks that they would arrest him for it. A riot in Afghanistan kills several UN workers.

If I were to go outside right now and burn a Bible, would any of that happen? Indeed, when thousands of people burn Bibles at demonstrations in the Middle East, does any of that happen? No. Their right to free speech is defended.

It's exactly for that reason that people are turning against Islam to a much greater extent than they are turning against Christianity. Because when Islam is concerned, free speech is thrown out of the window. The one place it still exists is online, really. At least on this site, I've seen far more criticisms of Islam than Christianity, although the majority of their beliefs are the same.

Defensive? Dude, I'm not atheist - how would I be offended? Besides, I called that the behaviour of a lot of atheists and you called it immature. By one of the divine laws of the universe that we have learned to accept as common sense without any form of proof, if a = b and b = c, then a = c.

That is, unless you were disagreeing with me in the first place about a lot of atheists' behaviour. If so, you didn't make that clear at all, and, since you quoted me without any objection to that, I naturally presumed that was agreed.

You described that behaviour, not me. And rational sense tells us that that behaviour is immature. I didnt call atheist immature I called the behaviour you yourself described

It's because of Satan. Satan rules this world.

It's really easy. When a belief has the amount of influence that Christianity does and then the people who follow that belief spout stupid shit, pass stupid laws and are pretty much a fish hook that's dragging society back instead of allowing it progress, then it's really easy to find fault in the belief and critisize it, especially when someone elses belief effects the welfare of people who don't follow that belief. 

Christians are also the ones on the attack, when factual knowledge, progressive thought and non-christian values are brought into a discussion, they become extremely defensive and begin to reference their belief to prove their belief. You can't reference the Bible to prove Jesus is a real person, you can't reference the Bible to say the Earth is the centre of the Universe and you can't reference the Bible when making laws that prohibit same sex marriage, it'd be like referencing the Iliad to prove some point about the Trojan war.

A religion is also not a race, gender or sexual orientation, all those things aren't beliefs and the person has no control in the matter and also don't try to push those traits on to other people.To stay relevant, Christianity has to convert people, to do so, they also have to trick people into converting, convince their children from a young age to become Christians and pay their way into converting people that don't have the wealth, the knowledge or the desire to back back against it (it's the reason why travelling church groups freak me out, taking advantage of poorer countries, just so that they can push their religion on to others).

Then you have all the usual mumbo jumbo, Christianity promotes discrimination, more wars have been fought in the name of Christianity than any other non religous belief, backward thinking, pedophile priests, KKK, crazy Pope, spread of misinformation, reluctance to teach evolution in schools, ignorance, ridiculous amount of contradictions and hypocrisy, influence and Christians are usually hard to argue against, especially when they fall back on the 'It is what it is, because God says so' line.

That's my take anyway.

Best post of the thread so far! 100

I've been getting a lot of these 'Best post of the thread' posts lately, it's a shame no one else took notice, I also doubt anyone else bothered to read it.