Sorry, Smedley, but you're still wrong. Yeah, you put a weakly mitigating statement later in your post, but your criticism of "religious apologists" here was just wrong.

The "religious apologists" were rightly reacting against a statement in the first post, "Religion makes me sick." The original poster retracted his statement and apologized, but the "religious apologists" were certainly right to object. Nobody here supports the execution of the dissidents, and nobody denies that the tyrannical leaders of Iran are also religious leaders - but we certainly do object to putting blame on "religion" in general.

Our complaint is about putting the blame on an entire class of people, rather than on the individuals who were actually responsible.

-Joe-