The "atheist movement"
March 5, 2013 at 10:13 am
(This post was last modified: March 5, 2013 at 10:16 am by naimless.)
There has been a recent trend on social media of the new atheist. One of my friends takes pleasure in constantly updating a status regarding how science proves theism wrong for every religious post he sees, despite sitting beside me in Chemistry at school and getting significantly lower grades than the religious people.
I enjoy free speech and I can choose to un-subscribe from him or better still, delete him altogether and never go online again. However, I don't disagree with most of what he says, and some of it is pretty funny when in the right mood. He was a good laugh in school as well, which is why he is my friend and why my Chemistry grade was significantly lower than Biology, despite me actually enjoying the former a lot more.
But I digress, I feel something is askew here. I'd estimate about 10% of my friends are religious posters, met with 5% anti-theist posters.
So what about the rest?
Well, the rest probably feel the need to not say very much at all and are probably agnostic of some description. Agnostic-atheists, in many cases. They probably don't think religion should dictate science. But they probably also don't think that atheists should dictate, not too dissimilar to how religious people dictated to them - in fact in many ways they see people being less compassionately approached now.
So it's just a thought for anyone in this atheist movement. As long as people are agnostic, the fundamentalism doesn't happen.
I enjoy free speech and I can choose to un-subscribe from him or better still, delete him altogether and never go online again. However, I don't disagree with most of what he says, and some of it is pretty funny when in the right mood. He was a good laugh in school as well, which is why he is my friend and why my Chemistry grade was significantly lower than Biology, despite me actually enjoying the former a lot more.
But I digress, I feel something is askew here. I'd estimate about 10% of my friends are religious posters, met with 5% anti-theist posters.
So what about the rest?
Well, the rest probably feel the need to not say very much at all and are probably agnostic of some description. Agnostic-atheists, in many cases. They probably don't think religion should dictate science. But they probably also don't think that atheists should dictate, not too dissimilar to how religious people dictated to them - in fact in many ways they see people being less compassionately approached now.
So it's just a thought for anyone in this atheist movement. As long as people are agnostic, the fundamentalism doesn't happen.
