My Thoughts On Militant Atheism

[pocaracas]

I haven't read the whole thread, but I just had to reply to this:

I have, when I was 13 I gradually began to lose my faith, when I was 15 I became an agnostic and when I was 16 or a few months before I turned 16 I was a full blown atheist. It took an entirety of 3 years for me to become an atheist, I unlike some people did not have the benefit of the internet or people who I could engage in dialogue with and ponder the existence of a god. When I became an atheist I thought I was the only one in the entire world, such was my isolation, I became an atheist entirely on my own. With only a handful of scientific theories and my own philosophical inquiries.

Me TOOOO!!!!

But I was about 10 and it happened over the course of a car trip to my grandmother's.
Of course, the initial realization then required some further tuning, but I also spent years thinking I was the only one in the whole world who was even pondering the possibility that there is no god.
Then I learned there was a word to describe this kind of people, atheist, and I thought I wasn't alone anymore... then I heard someone saying that some 20% of the population are atheists.... and it felt good!
It's always good to think you belong to a group... the human psyche is a strange thing...

Regarding the topic of the thread itself, I think you're being too harsh, but it also depends greatly on the definition of "militant atheist" that you're using... and, by the end of the 3rd page, I haven't seen you define it... maybe you already have...

Anyway... I'm going to read the remaining 13 pages of this thread and will... come back.

Oh, almost forgot: Welcome aboard, I see you're already having fun!