12.22.08
Atheist fundamentalists
How to Get on an Atheist’s Good Side
By Greta Christina, Greta Christina’s Blog. Posted December 22, 2008.
Here’s nine tips for believers who want to reach out. After all, atheists are a growing movement and may soon be a force to be reckoned with.
and this:
8: Do not — repeat, DO NOT — talk about “fundamentalist atheists.”
This silly article in the Dawkins New Atheist vein is a cleverly tricky form of emotional manipulation that deserves, contrary to prohibition, to be castigated as atheist fundamentalism.
A force to be reckoned with? This is social ambition, and a new method of declaring heretics in embryo.
I used to be an atheist (and/or theist/agnostic) until Dawkins stole the category for his fundamentalist groupies.
I recommend breaking all these rules. We don’t need a new ‘politically correct/incorrect’ protocol to silence critics of the silly movement that Darwkins et al. have created.
We already have a ‘successful’ case of the triumph of a lie in Darwinism, that’s enough. Let’s leave atheism to its old-fashioned vigor as a dialectical component of philosophical enquiry. No more.
No scientific or Darwinian bullshit to back it up and make it ‘official’, please.
I have no real problem with atheism, save that the form its expression takes is as problematical as that of theism.
Theism seems exhausted, played out, and atheism springs to life in a strange void. But its character is as fraught with stupidity as bad theism.
Becoming an atheist is too simple. It is of the type of one-line ‘declaration of faith’ that comes with no secondary intelligence about the implications of that declaration. So to be an atheist provokes just as much metaphysical equivocation as theism. Of course our atheist fundamentalists have a canned belief system based on Darwinian selectionist metaphysics, which makes it seem like a plausible system of belief.
What’s the point.
Atheist assholes.
Stephen P. Smith said,
December 23, 2008 at 7:42 pm
The pretense is to blame someone else for our own hatred. These are mistakes common to atheists, Christians, and many others. But what is found fundamental remains dear to us, even hate. So we carry the burden to express our feelings in our best words, if for the only reason that hate is not the final answer.
It is our untamed self interests that finds itself refused and not dealt with. Assertions are made based on the projection of mere derivatives, and the blind never considers that something dear may be fundamental.