RE: The Atheist Movement.
September 30, 2016 at 12:07 pm
(This post was last modified: September 30, 2016 at 12:10 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
Religious movements -aren't- holding their ground, or gaining it. They're locked in an ever accelerating death spiral to the very bottom of the pit of humanity...at present.
As to the complaints levied. Some people™ seem to want, from the atheist movement (whatever we define that to be) the same thing that the religious want from their own corners. A hero. A guru. A Big Man. A Paragon of Party Virtue.
As a born non-believer....I can't help but chalk some of that down to the residual effect of religious indocrination in the case of "atheist converts" or in the tone and narrative setting status of religious indocrination in the gp, globally, for these many thousands of years. Krauss et al are supposed to "act like x", to "be like x". They are compared, explicitly, to a dolt collecting bible salesman as though the metrics for the mens' respective positions were identical.
As to the complaints levied. Some people™ seem to want, from the atheist movement (whatever we define that to be) the same thing that the religious want from their own corners. A hero. A guru. A Big Man. A Paragon of Party Virtue.
As a born non-believer....I can't help but chalk some of that down to the residual effect of religious indocrination in the case of "atheist converts" or in the tone and narrative setting status of religious indocrination in the gp, globally, for these many thousands of years. Krauss et al are supposed to "act like x", to "be like x". They are compared, explicitly, to a dolt collecting bible salesman as though the metrics for the mens' respective positions were identical.
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