(February 8, 2013 at 5:53 pm)Stimbo Wrote: Atheism is the lack of belief in god/s, deities, and other assorted character. That's it. There is no ideology involved with atheism, and any ideology which people use to justify any actions are not atheism. Thus atheism is no more dangerous than a lack of hair, or a preference for chocolate ice cream over an intolerance for pistachio. If you want to discuss ideologies as motivators for hatred and murder, don't do it in the atheism subforum. After all, it makes just as much sense as discussing baseball in a forum devoted to bakery.
He's starting to remind of that old Irish joke...."is it the protestant god or the catholic god you don't believe in?"