(April 23, 2011 at 4:42 pm)Garmston Ansell Wrote: As I say I have no particular angle at present. I'm just going with whatever people here are saying.
Haha, then I suppose we atheists have a habit of making hostility seem like par for the course. If I were you, I would choose a broad angle, such as discussing famous atheists in history. If you are going to go for just atheism, it would be rather short. If you go for hostility among atheists, I would be sure to balance it with hostility against atheists in the religion part. I don't say that because I am an atheist. I say that because your essay would look more well-rounded that way.
There are certainly a number of angles you could take on the paper, but you aren't going to get much until you choose one. I would suggest starting a new thread, once you have chosen your angle. You are bound to get more theists in on the discussion that way. I am sure they are avoiding this thread for the simple reason that they are not atheists and the title suggests that only the help of atheists is needed.