Warning, this rant has nothing to do with speculative fiction or media of any sort. You have been warned.

I should probably be posting this over at my tumblr account, but this hits a bigger audience, so, enjoy!

I’ve started to become annoy by evangelical atheists. You know what? I understand that you don’t believe. That’s cool. I never asked you to. A vast majority of the religious community never asked you to. Somebody might have, but you beef is with that somebody, not with me.

Intolerance is intolerance, and disguising it behind righteous indignation doesn’t excuse it.

It’s easy to point to the screwballs and pretend they are good examples of an entire community, but it is simply not the case. There are very many rational, enlightened religious individuals. Were I to point to Idi Amin or Moammar Gaddafi and pretend they are good examples of Africans I would be rightly pilloried. So instead of generalizing, how about those of you out there intent on spewing venom spew it at specific targets, not an entire community.

Yes, I understand to you it is a bunch of fairytales. No, there is not a lot separating me from a Viking who worshiped Thor. I can think of one difference—I don’t worship Thor.

I can’t speak for the Viking, but I question my faith regularly. I believe in science—in evolution, in the Big Bang, in quantum physics . . . though I’m not too sure how much stock I put in string theory—and it is important to me to square away my faith with science. I welcome thoughtful discussion. There would have been no Reformation without it. There is no philosophical growth without introspection.

Here’s the thing: it’s about faith. If I could prove it, it wouldn’t be faith, would it?

I have my doubts that any of those venomous evangelical atheists are readers. If you are, how about showing a little bit of respect? I’ll point and laugh right along with you at the fucktards who claim to be religious. Trust me, I despise those jackholes as well.

Aforementioned tumblr account, if interested.