Religious Tolerance Is An Oxymoron

Hey, all of you religious nut out there, listen up. (and by, “nuts”, I mean any religious person who takes their superstitious beliefs so seriously that they bring up their faith in public.)

From your point of view, everyone else’s religious beliefs are nonsense and of course your god and religion is the only true one. Your supposed compromise of having tolerance towards one another’s nonsensical beliefs does not seem to be working out very well. Take for example the goings on in the Middle East, in the Presidential race and on the Q train yesterday.

Here’s a synopsis of religious tolerance at work on the New York City Subway:

It all began when Walter Adler, his girlfriend, Maria Parsheva, and two other pals boarded the subway at Canal Street bound for Brooklyn and someone in another group wished them "Merry Christmas." Adler and his pal Angelica Krischanovich responded: "Happy Hanukkah."

Apparently, the Jesus lovers didn’t like that:

"And almost immediately, you see the look in this guy's face, like I've called
his mother something," Adler said. "And I see the way this guy looks, and I see
the way that this guy wants to fight me, and I look, and I see another guy right
in front of me, another guy. And I see the crowd moving in."

"They just came at us so fast. The first thing that came into my mind was, 'Yeah, this is going to be violent,' " said Parsheva, 20.
One of the other group immediately hiked up his sleeve to reveal a tattoo of Christ.
"He said, 'Happy Hanukkah, that's when the Jews killed Jesus, you killed him, you killed Jesus, you killed him on Hanukkah, you dirty Jew, you fuckin’ Jew," said Adler.
The group of about 14 men and women then allegedly began taunting Adler and his pals as "dirty Jews" and "Jew bitches." "At first, I got hit, but I wasn't
bleeding," Adler said. "It was one of those sucker punch, shock punches. But by
the second time, there were like people stomping me."

So this religious tolerance crap isn’t working too well. The Agitated Atheist suggests another approach at getting along. How about religious indifference? That’s where no one talks about or flaunts their religious superstitions then maybe they’ll all go away.

P.S. Doesn't the fact that Atheists are never in the news for becoming physically violent towards others because of their religious beliefs, don’t start wars or commit genocide or any of the other disgusting things that seems to follow organized religion around, yet are almost always portrayed as the evil ones. Think about it, oxymorons.

The Agitated Atheist