Spot the difference

1 March 2009  

The “tolerable” atheist

The "tolerable" atheist

The “intolerant, dogmatic, assertive, fundamentalist, militant” atheist

The "intolerant, dogmatic, assertive, fundamentalist, militant" atheist

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2 Responses to “Spot the difference”

  1. igetpissed on March 1st, 2009 9:06 pm

    I guess that makes me “intolerant, dogmatic, assertive, fundamentalist, militant” or just smart enough to question dogmatic fools.

  2. T_W on March 4th, 2009 5:23 pm

    Sadly, this is quite an accurate description of how people perceive atheists/atheism.

    I had quite a lengthy argument over the weekend about the "religion of atheism" – basically my opponents were saying that the dogmatic "secular humanists" had formed a religion out of atheism and were trying to supplant the currently established religions with it.

    The main things that annoyed me about the whole argument were that the people I was discussing it with weren't even followers of a monotheistic religion and, crucially, when I asked them for examples or evidence of their claims they degenerated into mumbling about being rude to question others beliefs. Infuriating is an understatement.

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