(March 10, 2013 at 1:51 pm)jstrodel Wrote: You are not free to define your movement any way that you want. Atheism is a historical movement and it is entirely reasonable to make historical observations of the ways in which atheism has been promulgated.
People are free to simply mock and use non-rational persuasion techniques to deal with this observations, but I won't respect you for it. I will just sigh and think to myself "atheists are far more psuedo-intellectual than even the most die hard fundamentalists".
You keep saying that atheism has to be transmitted but it is just a reaction to theism.
When someone has an argument that someone else finds unconvincing then they do not believe it.
I have been told god exists. I am unconvinced. End of story.
Many people throughout history have been unbelievers. Unconvinced by the arguments.
They are even mentioned in the bible.
Pslam 14:1
"the fool says in his heart there is no god"
Were these roman marxists? these non-believers did they follow the concept of communism that wouldn't be invented for almost two thousand years.
You can fix ignorance, you can't fix stupid.
Tinkety Tonk and down with the Nazis.
