My Thoughts On Militant Atheism

[Mister Agenda]

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!

I think he realizes that if he defined what he was talking about rigorously, he wouldn't be able to be offensive to all of us simultaneously, which is the real reason he's here. If he posted a reasonable defintion, a lot of us might go 'Oh, that's not me he's talking about then', and lose interest. And lost interest is lost attention.

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I do not understand the term "militant atheist". I will admit that I don't have cable so sometimes the news is late to reach my ears. Are atheists now killing each other over who doesn't believe in god more or are atheists forming militias and killing religious people?

An actual example of a militant atheist would be Stalin and many of his supporters.

We've been so inoffensive and meek in the decades since Stalin's heyday that now 'atheist militancy' is being outspoken in your opinions concerning religion.

You know how it goes: militant religionists bomb things, militant atheists write books and hang out at Starbucks.