Atheists & Agnostics

The media rarely does offer the "two sides" with other bigotries, other than as a method to expose the stupidity of it.

I agree with your comments about how Muslims are being compared to various animals (I saw one post of a cartoon with a rattlesnake) and am mystified those people actually think they are defending Muslims, and everyone else is the raging bigot.

Of course, during our conversations on various threads, I was 'watching' (it is running in the background) "Family Guy" and it was the Christmas episode, given the past week, I think this sums it up nicely:

Peter: As we all know, Christmas is that mystical time of year when the ghost of Jesus rises from the grave to feast on the flesh of the living! So we all sing Christmas Carols to lull him back to sleep.
Bob: Outrageous, How dare he say such blasphemy! I've got to do something.
Man: Bob, there's nothing you can do.
Bob: Well I guess I'll just have to develop a sense of humor.

If not a sense of humor, at least a sense of understanding that attempting to gun down people for blasphemy is not a reasonable response!