Denzel Washington associates religious believers with sociopaths (and murderers)

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30. You and others are STILL missing the point

which is not that atheists need to be scared of what he said, or that what he said about atheists was that big a deal in the grand scheme of things. It's that if he had said the SAME things (which you claim are innocuous when applied to atheists) about Jews, Muslims or Christians, there would have been a firestorm of outrage. That outrage might have been equally unreasonable and overblown (for the same innocuous statements), but it would have happened nonetheless, and telling outraged Christians to "get a life" in that case probably would get you more of the same.

It's the double standard that's the point, not that this is deeply wounding to atheists.