Atheist Tuesday: Beware of Atheist Evangelists!
I was handed an article by a friend over the weekend and was greatly encouraged that so many atheists are taking a renewed interest in the supernatural, especially God! So much so that they had a convention in L. A. a month ago about how to deal with us superstitious types; yet they couldn’t quite agree on how best to combat them. Here’s an excerpt:
The tension was evident at the Biltmore, where about 300 nonbelievers from across the United States and Canada gathered for three days of lively and, at times, gleefully blasphemous debate. (“I have a personal commitment to committing blasphemy every day,” biologist P.Z. Myers said.)
Religion was dismissed as “nonsense” and “superstition”; those who believe were described variously as “ignorant” and “stupid.”
Fellow nonbelievers were not spared, however, as lines were drawn between “new atheists,” who encourage open confrontation with the devout, and “accommodationists,” who prefer a subtler, more tactical approach.
Atheist Tuesday: Still More Sound and Fury (Pt. 3 of 4)
Some atheists are complaining that the types of comments I’ve been presenting in this series are not representative of atheism as a whole, that these YouTube commentators reacting to my videos are selected to make non-believers look bad. Maybe. Maybe not. Part 4 well give a clearer picture of my rationale for posting these…. In
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