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I find it a bit strange to be used as a canonical example of someone being overly intolerant of religion here on LW, when most of the point of my last post (to which the author linked) was to suggest that the common practice of using theism as an Awful Example might be ill-founded and unwise.
And I find it a bit strange to be used as a canonical example of someone who thinks theists are hopelessly irrational on account of having no empathy for theists, when in the same post I wrote
byrnema, could you please be a bit more careful with your reading? Thanks.
It was a mistake to use you an example, because everyone's position is nuanced.
However, if you are intolerant of religious views, I don't fully see why you object to my writing that I felt your statements were overly intolerant, as I am arguing for a tolerance of religion that is rather extreme on this forum.
Not certain about the rules for editing -- permission to remove your name in my post?
You don't need anyone's permission to do that. For what it's worth, my (perhaps over-cautious) policy is that barring really exceptional cases my edits never remove anything substantive; that way, there's no risk that the edits will make other people's comments look silly.
You say "if you are intolerant of religious views", as if I'd just said that I am. I don't really know what it means to be tolerant or intolerant of a particular view (I think toleration is something one mostly does to people), but I'd say I'm entirely tolerant of religious views. I just happen to disagree with them.