It is a bit difficult to be a true humanist, if there is such a thing, if you are always going on about how superior your particular culture is, but Europeans seem not to care very much about this issue. I was once again reminded of this contradictory fact when I came across a question on twitter which essentially asked, "do you feel safer criticizing Christianity than you do Islam?" (I say essentially because the actual question was in a silly multiple choice format that was so poorly prepared I do not feel like repeating it). I immediately responded by saying that I felt exactly the same criticizing any religion, that basically what the average person does is get a bit annoyed with you for not following their faith. I also stated that there are obviously always violent extremists in any religion (this statement can also be backed by extensive evidence documenting the human obsession with dying or "sacrificing" oneself for one's faith), but that the threat was pretty much the same across the board. Mind you that I would have said this is also true of any atheist as well. Sure, there may be a few outliers, a few bad apples in an overall good tree, but I could say that about any members of any faith, or lack of faith. It is quite ridiculous to think anything else really. Hamas in no way represents Muslims; Israel knows this just as well as I do. That is why the cease fire was reached after all. Hamas is a rogue government that came into power through a fluke and that constantly struggles to maintain power of their people. There is no great elation on either that Hamas is in power. But the problem of continuing to remove existing governments and rebuild new ones is real; such a task is costly and there is a currently a deadly pandemic still spreading throughout the world. Also, one always has to be cautious to strike at the right time, otherwise what is known as blow back occurs. The blow back from the removal of the Gaddafi administration, a violent horror of a government that tortured its citizens, is still being felt by the current Biden administration; the resentment from the removal of Gadaffi was, in fact, one of the factors that propelled Trump to victory in 2016. Trump's team of propagandist constantly hyper focused on the violent removal of the former dictator instead of detailing the brute force he used to govern, making the Obama administration look like a gang of tyrants. Blow back is real, and its consequences must be thoroughly considered before one rides off into the sunset looking for the next government to topple. In world politics you are dealing with billions of lives; tact is a requirement in such situations, not a luxury. It is fine to make whatever generalization you like about a particular people in your home, but doing so in front of large audiences only causes more needless fighting and bickering. The person who asked the aforementioned question proceeded to assume that I was saying it was just as dangerous to be an atheist in a Christian nation, as it was in Muslim nation. Again, this question stated nothing about countries of origin and my answer would have been different if the question was asked properly. But because this person was not precise when asking their question, it caused the person to bitterly reprimand me. It was great; I felt like it was September 11th, 2001 and I had just said all brown people were not terrorists. It was the exact same reaction. The only thing that was different is that I was expecting better; I was expecting this person to be different. I was wrong, and that really let me down. I really thought I could trust this person to not jump all over somebody for having a different opinion than them. I was wrong. But I also realize that not all atheists are like this. I am an atheist after all. This is just more proof that I am my own person now, not wanting or needing the approval of like minded people, and flat out rejecting the bullying of their narrow minded attitudes