Atheists to Bill O’Reilly: ‘Religion does more than just hurt people. Religion kills people.’

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http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/12/07/atheists-to-bill-oreilly-religion-does-more-than-just-hurt-people-religion-kills-people/

On Friday night on his Fox News Channel show, Bill O’Reilly made a show of attempting to understand the motivations and thinking of the people he deemed “angry” atheists, asking, “Are they that bitter against religion?”

Raw Story spoke with Dave Muscato of American Atheists, Inc. to find out whether there was any merit to O’Reilly’s charges, which were part of the cable host’s annual protest against the so-called “War on Christmas.”

“Bill O’Reilly has this fantasy that Christians are being persecuted,” Muscato said, when in fact, “Bill O’Reilly is the epitome of a privileged person; a straight, white, cisgender American. The reason that he’s obsessed with this ‘War on Christmas’ is because he knows there’s nothing he’s really being oppressed by.”

When asked if he is an “angry atheist,” Muscato laughed and said, “I’m a passionate atheist. And I believe that there is a place for anger in activism. Anger is a natural emotional response to injustice and I don’t think we need to apologize for that.”

He was careful to stipulate that it’s not Christmas or even Christianity that is the issue, here, but the mingling of religion and government.

“It’s not about attacking Christmas,” he said, “it’s about the mixing of religion and government, because that’s a legitimate problem.”

[DesertFlower]

1. made me remember how every night

O'Reilly referred to "tiller -- the baby killer".