(October 26, 2010 at 5:53 pm)theVOID Wrote: The argument she made was:
1. Atheists are disproportionately white males
2. White males have privilege
3. Non-(white males) dislike white male privilege
4. Therefore white males hinder the growth of atheism.
And this argument is flawed for the following reason alone.
More white males are Christian and, especially historically, Christian white males have had more privilege than Atheist white males, yet non-(white male) adoption of Christianity is unhindered, in fact adoption rates amongst non-whites are higher despite the higher privilege, This renders her ENTIRE argument invalid.
The analogy between your example and her proposition is not sound because you have not excluded the possibility that the separate common psychological drivers for adoptation of Atheism and Christianity would react differently to the perceived privilege of the main holders of each system of belief.