I'm getting the feeling some of this (or all?) is directed towards me. The thread I made was a joke, see. I am an atheist and therefor have no interest in religion. There were no atheist pics because atheism is not a religion or anything but a title devised by people with the need to over categorize everything, and, thus, there are no "atheist pics." It's a joke! I thought it was funny. Whatever happened to joke threads in off-topic?
I almost thought this was a joke thread, but alas, no. It's interesting ender, that you take such issue with people defending things you don't believe in if they don't defend things you do believe in. When was the last time you defended the lack of beliefs of an atheist? When was the last time you defended the sexuality of an LGTBQ person (oh, right. You don't have to. I wonder, if I was a part of a religion that held the belief that Christian people were evil, would that be okay to you? Interesting too that Christianity is actually a choice when sexuality isn't, but I digress). I'm not saying I care, I really don't. You're on your side, I'm on mine. I don't expect you to come over here, so I don't know why you expect me to go over there.
Yes, I agree that disrespecting religious people because of their faith is a form of bigotry, but the biggest part of this whole thing you fail to see is that your two sources of ire are effing trolls (censored myself for you, but know that I mean this emphatically). They annoy me too, but I have learned to ignore them, as should you. Defending yourself against them is pointless, so I see no reason why I should defend you too. I don't expect you to defend me when the right-wing trolls speak up. They are trolls. Get over them. No one likes them. That's it. Done.
And please don't think this post is an assault against your character. It really isn't. Despite what you might think I really am not a judgmental person or anything like that. I do think it's annoying that you need to get up on a high horse and make these huge statements of "chastisement" or whatever. It's a little silly. But I don't think less of you I really don't, and I don't appreciate it when we argue that you have to fire back at me like I'm a villain and your a victim. I'm just trying to clear the air here. You're a cool guy and this really does not affect how I see you in discussions of other matters but seriously this thread is just a little irksome and I thought I'd let you know.