If I took your phrase out of context, I apologize. I didn't see any context that would add to the phrase and I most likely misunderstood. Being an atheist impl

If I took your phrase out of context, I apologize. I didn't see any context that would add to the phrase and I most likely misunderstood. Being an atheist implies a religious belief. It does not imply anything about how you view or judge other people, especially not about how you view or judge their actions. I did not interpret the top-level commenter as saying that Albanians were not compatible with the refugees because of their religion, I interpreted it to mean that at the sheer volume of refugees coming through, tolerance will be strained in spite of a normally tolerant culture. In particular, I interpreted that to be a cultural issue. While culture includes religious culture, there are many other aspects you may not be comfortable with (such as female genital mutilation, which I provide as an obviously controversial, but culturally grounded, example of western intolerance). > Does it make sense to deny food or shelter to a family because of their country or religion? Of course not, but I don't see that happening here, or even generally argued for in this HN discussion. Xenophobia is a powerful force we're all familiar with on some level, and reducing it to a matter of country or religion isn't helping to understand the problems and fix them.