(September 19, 2023 at 12:33 pm)Data Wrote:(September 19, 2023 at 4:14 am)FrustratedFool Wrote: I oppose religion in the same way I oppose fascism and spitting in the street. I'd prefer they weren't.
Is that militant?
Or is it a question of methodology, rather than attitude, that makes something militant or not?
Militant is defined as having to do with the military, in a literal sense, and in a figurative sense, as I use it, at war with a group of people. For clarification what I specifically mean by militant in this context is outspokenness compared to non-militant atheism. Militant atheists care about prayer in schools, in "God we trust" on money, abortion and gay rights, nativity scenes and the 10 commandments at the courthouse, tax exemption for religious organizations, all of which I agree with them on. But, since I'm technically a theist, I'm a militant theist in that regard. Militant atheists rent billboards, ad campaigns, buy bumper stickers etc. for atheism. Non-militant atheists don't. As an atheist for 27 years I wouldn't have done any of that. As a theist I wouldn't do or approve of doing any of that for theism. So in one regard I'm militant and in another I'm not. If you have a better term for what I'm describing I would gladly change.
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I notice you left out ‘join online atheist forums’, something you earlier intimated was a defining criterion for atheist militancy.
Boru
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