At some risk of getting totally offtrack of Nathan's question, the image is unfair to kids who grow up in communities that actually punish people for rejecting the faith of their upbringing.
I knew a lot of teenagers who went through the mid-aughts edgy atheist phase, and nine times out of ten that person had lived through significant mistreatment from their friends and neighbors. It's easy to lose sight of this if you grew up in the kind of place where adults don't start telling you about your prospects for eternal torment in preschool.
Yeah, this is a totally fair criticism,
Fat shaming is never a good look either.
as is this, and I'm happy to accept them. I have a close friend who went through the process Averroës is describing herself. I should have found some other way to respond in the thread in question.
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