Yes, but have you ever heard Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, Dan Dennet or any other famous atheist tell another person that they need to die? For the most part, atheists are attacking beliefs. When was the last time you heard of an atheist kill another person because of their religious beliefs? When was the last time you heard of a religious person kill another person because of their religious beliefs? In fact, just today or yesterday, there was another terrorist attack in israel.
Come on man, you know as well as I do you can't pick a few bad atheists and lump them all together.
That's like me picking out the thousands and thousands of priests that have molested little boys and saying that all priests molest little boys. Oh, wait..............
I wish more atheists shared your perspective that way discussion is healthy.
You're point was that theists should not feel personally attacked by atheists....that it's only the theist's beliefs that are being attacked. I wish that was the case. I can clearly distinguish between disagreement on beliefs and other's clear desire for my death. I can assure you many, many have requested my life be ended LOL.... OR that my daughter be raped.....or my wife beaten and raped. I think I've heard it all.....unfortunately.
Further, theists are just as guilty of making horrific verbal attacks against atheists.
From my experience for every 5 rationale, respectful atheists (that fully disagree with me) there are 20 hateful athieists that would enjoy seeing me get died.
FYI ~ Dawkins received a bunch of backlash from the atheist community about his "mock them, ridicule them" comments.