Of course hate doesn’t help, I am an arabic boy, I grew up in a muslim family, there are no difference between arabs and jews, they both have the same rules, they hate gays, they treat women like trash, and i don’t hate them, it’s just a question of ignorance.

Not all Arabs and Hebrew people are all the same, there are good arabs as good hebrew people, in fact, there are a lot of Israeli gay films which talk about the stupid hate between brothers (arabs and jews).

But this guy “Michael Lucas” is starting to think just like those orthodox people, it maybe because he got a crush on an arab boy and he dumped him up.

Look what you are saying Michael. “Don’t be stupid”

Islam will wipe the floor with humanists and atheists. In the end, atheism, a religion of a sort (much like Marxism) with it's holy books, prophets, saints etc, will fail to, prevail because it offers nothing.

A lot of the language in the Freethinker has become very aggressive of late. “Lipstick on a pig” and “Jackass Religion” are hardly constructive phrases (and the latter is tautologous anyway).

How are we to progress the cause of secularism if we choose to depict ourselves as vicious demagogues?

Hate is always a bad thing, and a lot of atheists need to learn this important lesson. Hate is corrosive to the hater and skews his thinking. I pity this man for his deep and unthinking hatred as much as I pity Muslims who evince the same unthinking hatred towards non-Muslims.

Some Muslims make death threats and do other very bad things. Yes, that is something we rightly deplore. Those brave souls who learn of abuses perpetrated in secret – whether by oppressive political regimes or by various religious or political groups – are right to expose them. They do us a good service and the light of publicity should be brought to bear on these things.

But do not enthrone hate as though it were a virtue. Surely hatred is exactly what we are condemning and combatting in others?