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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Weak troll is weak [/quote]

Sadly I think OP is sincerely bigoted, hate-filled and ignorant. [/quote]

The sad thing is, a lot of atheists are bigoted as hell (not all, but the most visible and vocal ones), but they attribute those qualities to religious people. Hiding your emotion-driven beliefs and prejudices behind an illusory veil of "rationalism" is certainly very convenient.[/quote]

Yo OP here. You sound high strung and easily offended. An illusory veil of rationalism? You mean making most decisions based on empirical evidence? Like science? I'd say if you're part of a fundamental Christian or Islamic religious group your beliefs are a bit emotion driven, outdated and oppressive. You've had a millennia to normalize weird outdated, patriarchal customs.[/quote]

1. Your Original post and thread title referred to all religion, not only Fundie Christianity and Islam (and the word "fundamentalism means something different for Islam (and Judaism) than for Christianity - in the latter it means belief in a literal interpretation of the bible - in the former it generally means a strict approach to religious law).  
2.  Some people come to fundamentalist Christianity based on syllogisms (flawed, IMO, but still) not always emotion. 
3. Millenia is plural. They have either had millenia, or A millenium
4. But they haven't.  The great challenge to their beliefs came with the enlightenment. At most they have had 300 years.  Not a millenium.   And in fact for the first couple of hundred of those, "modernizers" including atheists generally continued to accept patriarchy, though on other grounds.   Feminism and gender equality as a widely accept ideology is far younger than that.

"weird" of course is a subjective, culturally bound term.

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