“We can also cease displaying knee-jerk respect for those who propagate faith.” // @JeffreyTaylor1, many atheists may want you to shut up.

@rezaaslan @Salon I think Jeffrey should get a diploma in New Atheism and a certificate of ordination

“none of these tyrants committed a single atrocity in the name of atheism” But did so for the sake of their ideology, which included atheism

@rezaaslan @Salon “Atheism simply denotes nonbelief in a god,” & then he goes on and on about what “non-belief” is..very “evangelistic”

Like it or not, @JeffreyTayler1, Interpretation ALWAYS happens ,including you with your own, on which you are insisting as the only real one

The notion, @JeffreyTayler1 , that “interpretation” is some sort of ruse to justify (for some it is) seems to be your implication

“nonbelief can be just as hazardous as nonbelievers say religion is” // except it’s NOT “NON-belief”. It IS a belief; a system; an ideology.

“get ppl to examine religion & help them understand it as innately backward, obscurantist, irrational & dangerous.” //Wow,. Lay it on thick.

Precisely, @JeffreyTayler1 , what the scholars of Holy Books do with these included “dark responses”; they CRITIQUE under larger narrative

Re: prev qtn: I would, in fact, deligitimize Columbus and offer up a different vision for America than that of Columbus @JeffreyTayler1

“explicit injunctions for vile, sadistic behavior ” and so, @JeffreyTayler1, you would deligitimize US history due to behavior of Columbus?

“nonbelief is not a “belief system.” Until it IS, which you, @JeffreyTayler1 have felt compelled to defend like a true believer

“The problem with religion lies not with interpretation but with, for starters, the founding texts themselves.” // OBLIVIOUS. Circular. LOL

“what of all those ISIS warriors who take their holy book’s admonition to do violence literally? http://t.co/DaXTkYio9j // Ya mean like you?

Aslan is “taking a postmodern scalpel to ‘scripture’ & eviscerating it of objective content.” objective content=”what you insist is obvious”