Seems we've detoured into atheist stereo-types. There are way too many of them:
1. Snotty teen/college student who thinks he knows everything.
2. Intellectual philosopher/English teacher/historian/scientist who might corrupt the youth by preaching atheism in the classroom.
3. Hedonist who has had three wives, drinks to much, does drugs, and participates in orgies at least once a week.
4. Feminist.
5. Communist.
6. Liberal of any stripe.
7. Gay.
The first one exists and is undoubtedly an annoyance to his parents. While many atheists are intellectuals and scientists of various stripes, I've never met one who would bludgeon a student into non-belief ala God is not Dead, unless simply being an open atheist with articulated reasons qualifies as bludgeoning. Hedonists come in all religious stripes including TV evangelists.
Of course many feminists are outspoken atheists or have moved on to Wicken or Budahism. God as depicted by the Qur'an or the Bible is a very unfeminest being. Liberal because they hate all those blue laws and are just generally bad. Gays because they've chosen to thwart god's plan.
1. Snotty teen/college student who thinks he knows everything.
2. Intellectual philosopher/English teacher/historian/scientist who might corrupt the youth by preaching atheism in the classroom.
3. Hedonist who has had three wives, drinks to much, does drugs, and participates in orgies at least once a week.
4. Feminist.
5. Communist.
6. Liberal of any stripe.
7. Gay.
The first one exists and is undoubtedly an annoyance to his parents. While many atheists are intellectuals and scientists of various stripes, I've never met one who would bludgeon a student into non-belief ala God is not Dead, unless simply being an open atheist with articulated reasons qualifies as bludgeoning. Hedonists come in all religious stripes including TV evangelists.
Of course many feminists are outspoken atheists or have moved on to Wicken or Budahism. God as depicted by the Qur'an or the Bible is a very unfeminest being. Liberal because they hate all those blue laws and are just generally bad. Gays because they've chosen to thwart god's plan.
If there is a god, I want to believe that there is a god. If there is not a god, I want to believe that there is no god.
