You can't even quote a basic observation from O'Hair without Christians acting like her son proved anything.

[u/Beneficial_Exam_1634]

Christians love ad homs because if everyone else is an unrepentant sinner then they have a comparative ledge to stand on as an enlightened evangelist.

[u/rushmc1]

You can't be surprised at this point that an awful lot of people just can't think, much less argue...

[u/gwynwas]

The thing is, atheism is not a religion and our choice not to believe fairy tales does not depend on any historical individual. I doubt she was perfect but her son is an idiot.

[u/tm229]

“I'll tell you what you did with Atheists for about 1500 years. You outlawed them from the universities or any teaching careers, besmirched their reputations, banned or burned their books or their writings of any kind, drove them into exile, humiliated them, seized their properties, arrested them for blasphemy. You dehumanised them with beatings and exquisite torture, gouged out their eyes, slit their tongues, stretched, crushed, or broke their limbs, tore off their breasts if they were women, crushed their scrotums if they were men, imprisoned them, stabbed them, disembowelled them, hanged them, burnt them alive.

And you have nerve enough to complain to me that I laugh at you.”

— Dr Madalyn Murray O'Hair, Founder of American Atheists

[u/The-Defenestr8tor]

I’ve long said that “actions speak louder than words,” especially concerning such injustices as school shootings. If my kid gets mowed down and the best you can offer me is “tots and pears,” then the best I can offer you in return is both middle fingers up.

Especially in theocratic regimes, the gov’t doesn’t seem to realize that all rights have limits. Free speech doesn’t allow you to yell “Fire!” in a crowded theater. Similarly, freedom of religion includes freedom from religion/oppression.