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Precisely. They are banned for being intolerant, and any tolerant community must not tolerate the intolerant.
This is called the paradox of tolerance. If the tolerant people do not eliminate or rid themselves of the intolerant people then eventually the intolerant people will rise up and destroy the tolerant people. The only way to prevent either of those two extremes from happening is to not tolerate the intolerant.
If you fail to do that you cannot have a lasting tolerant community.
Plus I honestly want to know what the fuck these dumbass Christians think they're doing by ostracizing and excluding people from their community when by Christ's own teachings you're not supposed to do that.
He hung out with the tax collectors and the prostitutes and showed them love and acceptance and mercy and compassion and as Christians you are supposed to act like Christ so how about you stop finding reasons to hate and to wage non-violent culture wars or violent wars against people who you think are going to hell.
What do you achieve?
Do you think God's going to give you an extra shiny Gold pip star on your lapel because you bullied a trans person into committing suicide?
You think he's going to give you a pat on the back when you kick your child out of the house and disown them for being gay?
Any Christian that really thinks about it, just really takes just one good solid day to think about it would realize they're not being very Christian when they choose to hate.
I agree, you can be an atheist without offending the religious groups.
That might be true, but in my experience many religious people get personally offended by any criticism of their religion. For example, discussing the idiotic contradictory ethically challenged or obviously false sections of holy texts is very offensive.
You are absolutely right.
If you are so insecure about your sexual identity that you can’t handle some dumb kid posting funny images on the internet, then you probably need to rethink some of the choices you made in life.
If it’s more than just dumb memes, actually harassment or targeted hated, then take it up with the admins.