>My only experience with Christians is being mocked for not being Christian
>Absolutely anything I say is met with fedora memes, accusations that I am a Jew or that I should go back to rebbit
>By contrast, I have no firsthand experience with Muslims
I can understand in an academic sense that Muslims are worse, just by looking at news from around the world or looking up a list of terrorist incidents since the 1970s which includes the groups that claimed responsibility for each.
However I do not have the same directly learned, firsthand visceral hatred of Muslims that I do for Christians because no Muslim has ever personally sought to harm, humiliate or sabotage me. Those people were all Christians who hated me for disputing the basis for Christianity.
This is why you see a lot of people in the west trying to make the conversation on terrorism about Christianity even though Christian attacks are exceedingly rare. This is why they seem willing to give Muslims a chance, just because Christians hate them and they wrongly imagine that the enemy of their enemy is their friend.
If you want less of this, stop needlessly alienating people who might otherwise be your allies. Many white atheists are inclined to hate Islam because it is Abrahamic and embodies the worst aspects of Christianity magnified, or simply for racial reasons. But they turn on you instead because you're the ones flinging shit at them from all directions 24/7. It is hard to sympathize with people who do that to you.
If you can believe it, there was at one time a rich tradition of Christian/atheist debate in the west including the likes of Robert Ingersoll, Bertrand Russell and C.S. Lewis. Christians did not always flip their shit and spew memes when challenged.
Anyway I hope this solves the grand mystery of why people you are constantly assholes to seem to preferentially hate you when there are more deserving recipients of that scorn.
