(January 23, 2015 at 6:26 pm)Pickup_shonuff Wrote: Perhaps we---as in the free thought community---should adopt a page or two from the multiculturalists and LBGT movement?
We should and here is: We have to stop making enemies of those non-atheists who are not against us. We need them on our side.
We are a tiny minority - at least in the U.S. If it's us against them, we lose. Can you imagine blacks trying to win civil rights by lashing out against all non-blacks or homosexuals rallying the cause with the cry of, "straight people suck?" Far too often, we make enemies where we should be making friends. We do that in the course of debate. We constantly ridicule and belittle theists we debate with. Sometimes they deserve it but everytime we do that, it plants a seed in the mind of all theists in earshot that atheists are arrogant pricks who think they're smarter than everyone else. As long as that perception persists, we atheists (at least those of us outside Europe) will continue to be a mistrusted and disliked group.
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
Albert Einstein
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