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Sorry I called you dude. Where I'm from, "dude" isn't gender specific.

I in no way tried to insult you with the giraffe explanation. I know what you meant. I was trying to show how complicated this kind of stuff is, and how saying "It's too perfect" just doesn't make sense to me.

And if someone wants to burn a flag, that IS their right. It doesn't make sense to me, but they can do it if they want. It might insult some people, the same way some people get insulted when they hear things about the US being a "Christian nation".

And you don't know what the members of this group are doing. Some of them could be members of other activist groups that are trying to end poverty and things of that sort. It doesn't really matter. They've found a cause that they feel strongly about and they are fighting for it. I have a lot of respect for them. I may not agree, but the fact that they are trying to do something about it legally is a tribute to the way our great nation is run. See, not everything is all bad and violent.

I also want to add the I understand the power of faith or lack-thereof, for that matter. The fact that I'm atheist plays a huge part of how I live my life. I do not believe that there is an afterlife, so I know I need to live life to the fullest.
I am in no way trying to take God or religion away from people. I think you just have the wrong image of atheists or those who don't want religious connections on our money. We don't want to take religion away or god away. Those should be personal things anyways. If the government wrote "Buddha" or "Allah" or "Yahweh" or "Shiva" on every single thing they could, I wouldn't become religious or stop being atheist. That's MY belief. Only I can take it away or destroy it.