(March 6, 2013 at 12:17 am)jstrodel Wrote: In my mind, the vast majority of atheists that I meet in America (I realize, not the center of the world or exhaustive of the atheist movement) fall into the category of people that put great stock in enlightenment epistemological notions (this would include liberal and left wing atheists). I would see the atheist movement as being composed, probably 80% by people that follow some sort of enlightenment influenced understanding of evidence, proof, epistemology and the nature of science.
Glad to have you with us, jstrodel, you often bring up interesting points, and an atheist board without theists can get pretty dull.
It's a fair cop that most American atheists you run into on the internet are Enlightenment types/rational skeptics. There's a secular movement, and a skepticism movement, and an atheist's civil rights movement...I wouldn't call those 'the atheism movement', not least because many theists are on our side on those issues, but I think I DO know what you mean when you say it, and it's not just theists who think of it that way.
