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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Try a search on this topic.  It's been here before.

My take?  I don't care what you believe or practice as long as it doesn't harm anyone (including through restriction of freedoms, such as the FLDS) and you don't bring it to my doorstep.[/quote]

I wouldn’t care either if it was like someone’s favorite flavor of ice cream for example…totally innocuous and almost entirely inside their own heads. However, even discounting the more blatant harms that Bible believers sometimes commit, there are insidious harms that destroy families and lives every single day.  I can cite examples if you want but I have personal knowledge of many people  and the harm that was done to them. Including some who no longer are welcome in their families , who have had siblings commit suicide due to shunning , etc etc. 
And before anyone says “that’s just the fringe or the fundamentalists “, no it is not. Not to mention , as has been stated by many , moderate Christianity gives cover to the more extreme versions. And at least one of those extreme versions wants to make this country into a Christian taliban and sincerely believes that god is now in charge.  Look up what the current speaker of the house believes and what he and other Christian nationalists are trying to accomplish for their god. 
 Some scary crap.  Much scarier than someone’s opinion on an ice cream flavor ..

This is why “atheists care”. [/quote]

You have personal knowledge of people harmed by people who believe in the Bible?

Who, what, when, where, why?[/quote]

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