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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][droom (copies of Raphael and Davinci paintings). They are pretty but too much for me.  [/quote]

Another atheist DH with a lapsed Catholic DW. She has a couple of very pretty crucifixes that she hung above doors in bedrooms. Just a piece of art as far as I'm concerned, but they are important to her.  The paintings sound beautiful. Wouldn't bother me from a religious perspective because, again, to me it's just beautiful art. In the same vein, she understands why I have a little statue of Baphomet on my desk and send checks to the Satanists legal fund to support their fights against Christians who have such difficulty understanding the meaning of the 1st Amendment[/quote]

This is so interesting. So you're an atheist who thinks that pranks against Christians (only) are productive ways to engage. And you're male (actually that has always seemed obvious from your posts).

Are you the troll who disrupts most threads about Christianity with shallow silliness?[/quote]

As the aforementioned atheist DH, I'll take your questions in reverse order.

I highly doubt that I'm the person you're accusing of disrupting threads about Christianity. Nor would I consider this post trolling. I think my post here answered the question about where the crucifixes in my home are and I respect my wife's desire to have them even though she's a lapsed Catholic. To me they are beautiful pieces of art that have additional importance to my wife.

As far as "pranking" Christians is concerned, the only time I consider it relevant is when certain groups attempt to legislate Christianity or do other things that impermissibly demonstrate governmental favor of Christianity in violation of the 1st Amendment. There are many ways to address it - one is to simply fight it in the courts on legal grounds, and there are groups that do that. Litigation is expensive and litigation over issues like this are a waste of taxpayer money. For example, the Dover School Board should've known better, yet they wasted enormous amounts of money attempting to defend teaching creationism in a public school. This kind of thing happens over and over, and, yet, certain militant Christian groups keep trying to force their beliefs into public schools.

Another less expensive way to handle this is to demonstrate that if these particular Christian theocrats (and they are a very small, but vocal minority of Christians) get to do what they want, then the 1st Amendment means another group they despise - Satanists - will get to do the same thing. In those situations, the Christians usually decide they would rather not get their way if it means equal treatment for Satanists.

Take Orange County, Florida, for example, where groups were distributing Bibles in public schools. An atheist group sued to prevent it, but while that suit was slowly working its way through the courts, the Satanists stepped in and said that if Bibles were being distributed then they had the right to distribute a "Satanist" coloring/activity book.

Rather than have that type of "evil" literature distributed, the school board instead decided on a policy that cut off all distribution of religious material in the school.

The Satanic Temple also uses the various state Religious Freedom laws, still championed now by certain Christian groups as a means to avoid recognizing gay marriages, to argue against restrictions on abortion that are consistently (and primarily) supported by conservative Christian groups.

As an atheist, I'm not a Satanist (but, in truth, most members of the Satanic Temple are also atheists), but I support the legal work that they do in resisting the attempts by certain conservative Christian groups to insert Christianity into the public sphere in ways that violate the 1st Amendment. 
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