Seeking Common Ground: Why Progressive Muslims & Atheists Should Work Together

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9. It does, but then it also goes on to make the same familiar smear

It posits that one can't disparage a particular religion without disparaging all religionists who subscribe to that religion.

It's more than a bit ironic when religionists claim intolerance whenever someone criticizes their religion as if it's no different than intolerance of the religioinists themselves. Their own intolerance robs them of the critical thinking ability required to differentiate between those things.

It's really just more of the same. The idea is as long as atheists just STFU about the inherent downsides to religion, they will get along just fine. The difference is at least the author is at least somewhat receptive to the idea there is wickedness for which religion is at least partly responsible, but it's unsurprisingly written off as "cultural" and the product of "extremists" as if the mainstream religion itself is free from fault.