They are not insulting religious people in general, just the ones who blindly follow every word in the Bible/torah/Quran/etc as the gospel truth, in other words, fundamentalist types.
Believe me, you don't even have to be religious to act in the manner of a fundamentalist. I have seen this behavior in many athiests as well, where anything uttered by a scientist, college professor, or a left wing politician is considered as 100% truth, regardless of the amount of evidence.
Ever hear the term "flat-earth atheist"? Try Telling one of those that you are even the slightest bit skeptical of. "Imminent man-made global warming ". It's the same as going to a fundamentalist and telling them that " God doesn't exist" or that you are a Satanist.
There are extremists for just about anything you can imagine.
When people are highly religious I think they are less intelligent.
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They are not insulting religious people in general, just the ones who blindly follow every word in the Bible/torah/Quran/etc as the gospel truth, in other words, fundamentalist types.
Believe me, you don't even have to be religious to act in the manner of a fundamentalist. I have seen this behavior in many athiests as well, where anything uttered by a scientist, college professor, or a left wing politician is considered as 100% truth, regardless of the amount of evidence.
Ever hear the term "flat-earth atheist"? Try Telling one of those that you are even the slightest bit skeptical of. "Imminent man-made global warming ". It's the same as going to a fundamentalist and telling them that " God doesn't exist" or that you are a Satanist.
There are extremists for just about anything you can imagine.