RE: Militant Atheism?
March 12, 2014 at 6:28 am
(This post was last modified: March 12, 2014 at 6:29 am by Tonus.)
(March 11, 2014 at 4:19 pm)Jovanian Teapot Wrote: At university, i tend to take every chance i get to debunk and vilify religion. Many people have described me as militantly atheist. I kinda like it. However, i'm not sure that my course of action is the most effective, so...I would say, be yourself. If you are comfortable being aggressive about debunking religion then go ahead and do that. As Alex K said, it takes all kinds. I am only a bit more reserved about my atheism than I was about my theism (couldn't help that, being a JW meant being annoying at least a few hours a month).
I invite you all to tell me what you think of my behavior.
Should we, as atheists, go about our lives as quiet skeptics,
or should we arm ourselves with heavy artillery and pursue a war of ideas?
If you'd be so kind, give me some examples of the things you all do in your daily lives in support of either side.
Don't try to fit into some "atheist mold." To me the best thing about being an atheist is that I don't have to conform to the desires of some group. I just get to be myself.
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."
-Stephen Jay Gould
-Stephen Jay Gould
