On 10/18/2011 8:54 AM, Darren New wrote:
> On 10/18/2011 0:57, Invisible wrote:
>>>> Is it true that if people find out you don't believe in God, you will
>>>> *actually* be brutally murdered in your sleep? Or is that an
>>>> exaggeration?
>>
>>> Depends, which state did you hear it happening in?
>>>
>>> Mind, that is an exaggeration of the truth, but its not that damn
>>> dissimilar to the reality in some places.
>>
>> OK, *so* glad I decided not to take that trip to America now... o_O
>
> Actually, no, nobody actually gets murdered in their sleep for being
> atheists. You get nasty looks from neighbors, and teachers give your
> kids bad grades, and your house might even get TPed, but even that is
> very rare and limited to small towns where everyone is inbred anyway.
>
There have been a "few" cases, someone dead by the road, a few days 
after raising a stink about something being done in a town meeting, or 
government event, that was purely sectarian. Whole families having to 
move, because while no one had died *yet* it was fairly obvious that 
staying was likely to end up with a corpse, even if it wasn't entirely 
clear if one of the family would be on the slab, or some idiot that went 
one step farther over the edge, and tried to rape/beat up one of them 
was there instead... They are not common, but they do happen, as much as 
we actually hear about it, in some parts of the south.

For the most part though, they know they are a small minority, they have 
a very insane idea about what is needed to "solve" the countries 
problems (in that it involves pretty much violating the rights of the 
other 99.9% of the US), a lot of it is small time BS, by people that 
wouldn't, themselves, lift of finger to hurt anyone, but never the less 
are *greatly* offended when someone suggests their sectarian behaviors, 
and even some ordinances/laws they have locally, are illegal under the 
US constitution, etc. The biggest problem is that the truly crazy are 
able to listen to the ranting, whining, idiocy, of such people, over the 
net, and you get the, "No one among the Christians For a Theocratic 
Constitution ***actually*** said to shoot at X person, its purely 
coincidence that we hinted at it for months over the local radio, and 
the internet, during which the person that did it happened to a) listen 
to the radio, and read our website!". I personally, in the case of some 
of the "pro-life" movement, and some others, this shouldn't be a valid 
defense of their actions. How often do you hear from "some" of the 
middle eastern wackos that they, "Talk about the west, and what someone 
should do about it, or blow up, or shoot, but they never *ordered*, or 
*payed* anyone to do so, personally!"? Too damn many of them. But, its 
the same defense by radical pro-life sites, to why its not their fault 
that certain clinics get fire bombed, or doctors shot and killed.

And, its the same "defense" from the radical, "Anti-everything that 
isn't Evangelical, often Biblical Literalist, Christian". Any 
inexplicable, oddly not well investigated, and, as far as we know, 
without looking at every local paper in the region, rare, case, is 
completely unrelated, according to these sorts of groups. After all, 
they never ordered, or paid, anyone to do it.

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