(January 23, 2014 at 6:03 pm)whateverist Wrote: What really is there to say about atheism? I'm no missionary. People are multidimensional. They can have interests in common with me or areas of expertise which interest me .. whether they believe in gods or not. I'm not looking to cleanse my social network of everyone except atheists.
I agree whole heartedly. I don't need to preach my Anti-racism either, but if I hear utterances in my presence that would otherwise go unchalleged, I'm saying something. My "Atheism" is too complicated for an anesthetized, indoctrinized, full-blown YEC to even grasp. In my experience, starting with my adopting the title of Atheism as the topic of discussion with any one of these types of Theists is taking the LONG way to any productive exchange of ideas. I don't believe, therefore, I don't know. The Socratic method is FAR more useful. Knowledge claims of a biblical nature are still knowledge claims, and if I don't know, asking questions to provoke little sparks of intellectual honesty is by far the best approach. What they know soon becomes what they think. And if what they think doesn't make sense, then I don't have any problem pointing that out.
