(February 20, 2013 at 2:14 pm)The Germans are coming Wrote: what is "atheist dogma"?
Well, it isn't anything like religious logic.
I would say that any atheist that holds that in order to be an atheist, then there is a specific ideology that must be held is atheist dogma. One example is that when Sam Harris speaks of "spirituality", he says that many atheists cringe at that word, because of it's religious association, and therefore will shout "There cannot be any spirituality in Atheism!".
That is being dogmatic. I believe that many atheists build a "structure" that they call "atheism" and hold onto that as being the only structure. I am also certain that with age and experience, and especially after a believer becomes a non-believer and swings to the extreme opposite side, eventually he or she finds a more medium way and can reintergrate back into society, and thus be less dogmatic.
“I've done everything the Bible says — even the stuff that contradicts the other stuff!"— Ned Flanders