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Perhaps I'm overly sensitive then, but I see no difference between "Your belief is absurd" and "You are a believer in the absurd."

GrahamKennedy wrote:To give an example from the religious side, there are those who tote the phrase "God hates fags", when more moderate believers might say "hate the sin, not the sinner". There are certainly atheists who hate the religious; I, however, am not one of them.

And the obverse of you not being one of them is that I am a man who follows a faith, yet I don't harbor bigotry becuase of it, nor do I harbor any idea that the point of view of an atheist is less valid for some reason than my own.