(September 7, 2014 at 11:28 am)Dolorian Wrote: Recently came across this article which I think is relevant to the OP: Atheists, Please Stop Saying These Things
In brief here are the nine things the article mentions (see the article for more detail on each):
1. Please stop saying that “we’re all born atheist.” .
2. Please stop trotting out simplistic reasons why people believe (ie. they just believe because they are afraid of dying).
3. On a related note, please stop explaining the creation of religion in equally simplistic ways. (ie. religion was created to control people).
4. Stop conflating fundamentalism or Biblical literalism with Christianity itself.
5. Please stop saying that being religious means someone is stupid.
6. “Religion is a mental illness” or “religion is a virus.”
7. That if you call yourself an agnostic you’re really just a wimpy atheist who won’t commit or who doesn’t have the courage of their convictions.
8. Tax the churches! Churches are tax-exempt under the same section of the IRS code as the FFRF, ACLU, Americans United and American Atheists.
9. “The founding fathers were all deists” (or worse, atheists).
Why?
