(April 22, 2016 at 6:00 pm)Meandering Atheist -J- Wrote: It annoys me even more when they try to do this to a high-profile atheist. We can be pretty certain that Christopher Hitchens isn't just going through a phase.
Personally I don't give a shit. They do it to everyone, and even to call them high profile is missing the mark. They're just people expressing their opinion like everybody else. I don't view them as any kind of authority, since, looking at my first post here, I'm not a member of any kind of community. The fact that I'm an atheist enabled me to be an individual. I didn't need anyone to tell me why I'm an atheist, general science did that just fine, and I certainly don't need anyone to confirm my atheism. General science does that job just as fine.