Thread:User talk:WaitingforGodot/Trying to prevent RationalWiki judging Christianity too harshly/reply (38)

I empathize with the woman in question as a fellow human being; as an atheist, though, I feel no special bond with her, nor do I see an attack on her as an attack on me because of our shared disbelief in God. If I were gay, I would in all likelihood see an incident of gay-bashing as something directed at me because of who I am; if I were a woman, I would see a sexist diatribe as being directed at me because of my gender. I see this as an attack on an individual--a viscous one, no doubt, but not as an attack on "my" group, if only because "not believing in deities" is not, for me, something so important to my self-understanding that I see it as a major part of who I am or a grounds from which to form community or alliance.