(April 10, 2013 at 8:49 pm)Polaris Wrote: This is more true of many American atheists who post online (well the more active individuals)....they are the biggest detractors to atheism and the biggest threat as well (they're just like those Christian Fundamentalists who ruin the image of Christianity)...sad that both are too arrogant to admit they are harmful rather than beneficial to their respective groups.
There is a tendency, however, of those active atheists being more of a threat to themselves than to anyone else, with their opinions serving more to alienate themselves from the more mainstream atheists - I'm thinking principally of TJ The Amazing Atheist, P Z Myers and the whole Atheism+ thing.
Compare that to the outspoken xtian fundamentalists who tend to attract an increasing and increasingly strident following and who, more often than not, manage to get their opinions into the mainstream.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
