Quote:One wonders if those people ever read Dawkins or Hitchens, Loc. There is an amazing tendency among of theists to critique books they haven't read.
Indeed.Not just theists. EG some who criticise Marx and Darwin or perhaps Islam or even Christianity.
I've read Hitchens and would be amazed if he deconverted anyone. I think Dawkins is a better thinker,but they both lose me when they begin expressing their personal opinions.
I got my basic ideas about theism from "Why I Am Not Christian' by Bertrand Russell in about 1971. Those views were part of what was for me a very long journey from devout Catholicism to agnostic atheism.
I think theists miss the point when they start rabbiting on about deconversion. Yes, some atheists are obnoxiously militant and proselytise believers,with the stultifying arrogance that they are right and believers are wrong. It bemuses me that such people are able to behave thus with no obvious sense of irony.
No atheists I know gives a flying flunggel about the personal superstitions of others. I simply decline to discuss religion most of the time except on forums..
Quote:Ten thousand monks ten thousand religions (Buddhist saying)
