Militant Atheism?

[The Grand Nudger]

Oh sure, and I'm a militant breakfast eater and a militant breather too. Really, we're all militant everythings under a definition so expansive. It's all horseshit, ofc, militant atheism is a derogatory fiction dreamt up by theocratic fascists in order to justify whatever bad faith shit they were already going to do.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

They don't come out and say they ban you for being a theist.

That fallacy has to have a name.

[Silver]

Oh sure, and I'm a militant breakfast eater

That just makes you a hobbit.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Oh sure, and I'm a militant breakfast eater

That just makes you a hobbit.

Only the Dwarves came to breakfast heavily armed.

[FrustratedFool]

I accept that many would consider me a militant athiest. That's fine.

[Mister Agenda]

I live in South Carolina. If I didn't seek out the company of humanists, rational skeptics, and Untarians; I'd only have people who believe everyone is literally descended from two people who ate a forbidden fruit or aliens built the pyramids (or both) to talk to.

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

I oppose religion in the same way I oppose fascism and spitting in the street.  I'd prefer they weren't.
Is that militant?  

Or is it a question of methodology, rather than attitude, that makes something militant or not?

Militant is defined as having to do with the military, in a literal sense, and in a figurative sense, as I use it, at war with a group of people. For clarification what I specifically mean by militant in this context is outspokenness compared to non-militant atheism. Militant atheists care about prayer in schools, in "God we trust" on money, abortion and gay rights, nativity scenes and the 10 commandments at the courthouse, tax exemption for religious organizations, all of which I agree with them on. But, since I'm technically a theist, I'm a militant theist in that regard. Militant atheists rent billboards, ad campaigns, buy bumper stickers etc. for atheism. Non-militant atheists don't. As an atheist for 27 years I wouldn't have done any of that. As a theist I wouldn't do or approve of doing any of that for theism. So in one regard I'm militant and in another I'm not. If you have a better term for what I'm describing I would gladly change.

(Bold mine)

I notice you left out ‘join online atheist forums’, something you earlier intimated was a defining criterion for atheist militancy.

Boru

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

That just makes you a hobbit.

Only the Dwarves came to breakfast heavily armed.  

And they leave the washing up for poor wee Bilbo. Uncultured bastards.

Boru

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Only the Dwarves came to breakfast heavily armed.  

And they leave the washing up for poor wee Bilbo. Uncultured bastards.

Boru

In the video the dwarves did the washing up. I seem to remember that in the book as well.

[arewethereyet]

I am glad this thread finally took an interesting turn.