Religion vs Evolution and Censorship

 
1. Viruses are the product of evolution.

That doesn't mean we should ignore the opportunity to develop preventative measures and treatments. 2. Atheists have a wide range of views about religion as a broad topic. For most atheists, the more abusive the religion, the more they call it out. They tend to ignore peaceful religions; focusing mostly on authoritarian and coercive religions. I realize that Christian and Islamic fundamentalists consider their religions "peaceful". But they don't look (at all) that way from the outside looking in. Some atheists spend a bit of time railing against all "woo". But most of them give a free pass to hippie religions. 3. Many (a certainly high %) of outspoken critics who rail against religious fundamentalism ... are not actually atheists. For example, several of the USA's founding fathers were "deists". But they were very openly critical of Christianity. Christian and Muslim fundamentalist just assume every challenger is an atheist; which is (partly) why those religious people keep 'framing the narrative' as "religion vs atheists". 4. Most atheists consider Evolution Of Species to be irrelevant to their stands about "God(s)" in general. And since most Christians accept Evolution of species 'as true', they don't see how it matters either. Most other theists agree. They don't see the relevance.

A person can be a Theist and still accept Evolution as true. Granted, it clashes with literal Genesis creationism. But that's really only a problem for that specific religious niche. 5. Biological evolution is different than social and cultural evolution. 6. Biological evolution is only a part of the causal-chain that gave rise to religions. There are many mechanisms at play, historically and presently. If it was only due to biological Evolution, humanity would have already grow past the more aggressive forms of religion. Biological physics shaped social physics.

Social physics is half of what happens at a cultural level.

It always includes biological drivers.

But the difference is that social environment determines who becomes religious, who remains religious, and what form that religiosity takes. 7. Most atheists would suffer and/or die to protect religious freedom in their society. Very few atheists would support any effort to eradicate religions by force. In fact, currently, the biggest threat to religious freedom in America is "Christian Nationalism". Although, I think most atheists (and most theists) would support criminalizing the more severe forms of child-abuse that's done in the name of religion.

And I'm sure they'd like to see the "Tax exempt" status taken away from churches that openly use their religion to endorse politics. 8. As for "censorship", it's usually the Christian channels that either have "comments disabled", delete unwelcome challenges in comments, and/or avoid engaging on any issues they don't have a slick maneuver for. But when it's their social media space, that's their right. And everyone just accepts that. 9. The only space where I see a lot of anti-religious critics wanting Christian-religious fundamentalism silenced is on political platforms and governmental platforms. Because govt isn't supposed to endorse any one religion over another. And so our laws should never be based on anyone's religious beliefs, and our children shouldn't be tricked into attending church by someone turning their classrooms and sporting events into a church service. 10. I'd welcome a discussion about any of this, over at my channel.