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I reject that premise entirely.
Maybe anti-religious people need to make an effort to understand how to better communicate their views as frankly many cone across as the same as bigots do.
I dunno if it's actually possible (for me) to be honest and communicate evenly with the faithful. I cannot see their beliefs as anything other than wishful thinking and fantasy.
Not to say the religious are stupid, i don't believe in binary smart/stupid in most cases. I know some very intelligent religious folks who have what i consider at best a blind spot for their belief.
I frankly believe it to be impossible. Any discussion where one side has "faith" to fall back on and calls poking holes in religion as an attack on that faith is fated to fail before you start
Don't talk about their faith then. Talk about what needs to be done and if a member of an Abrahamic faith asks why remind them it's what God told Adam to do. Genesis makes it clear humanity is to tend the earth not exterminate all life on it.
Well that is a good point. I'm not well versed in the Bible however, and i would hesitate to quote it even if i were. how would it sound to someone faithful to have someone without, quoting their faith at them? It would further require my reading the Bible with the express purpose of busting their chops, which wouldn't feel good to me.
It's literally in the first book of Genesis. Takes about 4 minutes to read
But
You don't need to quote exactly you just ask what God tasked Adam with.