Atheist Fundamentalism

[Whateverist]

Ridicule is not justification. The book itself is ridiculous - that is the justification.

And even if they were to disavow the book, their theology is ridiculous and worthy of being dismissed.

Dismissed in what sense? And why are the book or the theology central to the religion?

That is what I've always wondered. Christians hold certain -what to us seem unjustified- beliefs. They would have you believe they hold them because the bible is the word of god. But that means their primary belief is that the bible is the word of god. That begs the question: why do they believe the bible is special.

So apparently no Christian has any more clue what a god is than we atheists do except to the degree they may have spent more time reading the bible and understand it better. (A hugely suspect assumption.)

I agree with the OP that attacking Christianity (or theism more broadly) based on a literal reading of the bible is picking the lowest of fruit. Moreover if we can only speak of theism/theology in literal terms then we too have a fundamentalist frame of mind. On the other hand, if this is the kind of religion an atheist held before de-converting, I suppose it is understandable to keep addressing the religion you knew.