<p><a href=“%5Burl=http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/1060213137-post104.html]#104[/url]”>quote</a>…You need to look harder if you don’t see them putting down Christians. It’s a little naive to even assume they don’t, considering “religion = fairy tales” is a “part of the Atheist platform”. That in and of itself is an insult.
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<p>Most atheists’ concern is not “fairy tales” but with the public policy that many attempt to derive from religious doctrine. Public policies like the [teaching</a> of intelligent design in biology](<a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/1060158376-post51.html]teaching”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/1060158376-post51.html), opposition to [holistic</a> health (including sex) education](<a href=“http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1374/is_n2_v56/ai_18047687]holistic”>http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1374/is_n2_v56/ai_18047687) at an appropriate age in public schools and [blue</a> laws](<a href=“http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_law]blue”>Blue law - Wikipedia).</p>
<p>If religious doctrine/belief was as innocuous as the Easter Bunny or Santa Claus there properly wouldn’t be any concern. However, when a public policy’s foundation is based on a morality that has at its roots “believe this or that because it says so in this book (Bible, Torah, Koran…)”, non-believers have every right to question the policy’s foundation and its proponents. Particularly when science is uncovering that our shared morality ([The</a> Golden Rule](<a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/1060188265-post86.html]The”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/1060188265-post86.html)) is independent of religion.</p>