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64. you need to reread my post, perhaps several times, because that is not what i said.

i agreed that a "a very, very tiny fraction of atheists have managed to gain a very small microphone, and yes, some of them have of late gotten a bit nasty about it."

how can you read that and then say my post said that "i do not believe that some other atheists are nasty"?

some small fraction of any population is rude, obnoxious, and nasty. pick any combination of gender, nationality, race, hair color, religion, wealth, income, birth order, whatever, some usually rather small percentage will be nasty.

some atheists are nasty, some christians are nasty, some jews are nasty.

because some people are just nasty, and it has nothing to do with any of the above mentioned characteristics.


as for answering your question, let me spell it out for you:

just as "i never started beating my wife" is responsive by rejecting the false premise of the original "when did you stop beating your wife?" question, i responded to your "why are so many atheists nasty' question by rejecting your false premise that "so many" atheists are nasty.


the question "when did you stop beating your wife?" becomes moot once the premise that wife-beating ever started is rejected.
similarly, the question "why are so many atheists nasty?" becomes moot once the premise that so many atheists are nasty is rejected.



now, to answer a question that you did not ask, "why are a few atheists nasty?" i answered that above. a few people in any population are nasty, because, well, it's human nature for some people to be nasty. moreover, it's also human nature to pay disproportionate attention to people who are being nasty.