RE: Near death experience of Howard Storm
January 30, 2016 at 8:58 pm
(This post was last modified: January 30, 2016 at 9:00 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
I have a hypothesis about that. I think that the scores of the faithful who have been told that atheists are "x" (insert list of negatively taken attributes here) cannot square, in their own minds, that people who just don't believe actually -are- those things "x". That -can't- be all there is to atheism because atheism is "bad"....and that just doesn't seem all that bad. There isn't a human being on earth who isn't personally acquainted with skepticism and doubt about something.
So we get the constant angry atheist, the neverending stream of hard hearted atheists. Atheism *plus...and it's always the plus they take issue with, never the atheism.
So we get the constant angry atheist, the neverending stream of hard hearted atheists. Atheism *plus...and it's always the plus they take issue with, never the atheism.
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