(June 9, 2016 at 11:35 am)YahwehIsTheWay Wrote:(May 25, 2016 at 11:56 am)MJ the Skeptical Wrote: I think it has with the Atheism vs. Christianity anyway, at least on places like YouTube where the great debate community is all but gone or has moved on. I feel like at least on YouTube the Atheism community has shifted more towards debating the SJW/Feminist movement or even Islam for some Atheist YouTubers than formal debates anymore. What with the SJW's trying to mix their ideologies with Atheism/Secularism or in Islam's case trying to force western societies like those within Europe to conform to Islamic law. Do you think this shift in debate is happening? And if so, do you think it's a more use of time to argue the social, political and global issues than arguing about mythology?
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I'm starting to see that the debate against Christianity is over. It was important in 2004 when the Evangelicals were flexing their political muscle and the Culture War was in its 1941 stage. Now it just feels like we're bouncing around the rubble. The Culture War is over and we won. As for Christianity, it's also dying. It's starting to feel like arguing against alchemy.
I believe it's time to spend more time debating Islam. It has even fewer arguments in its favor than Christianity (no faux history, no supposed eye-witness accounts, just a sloppy some-guy-in-a-cave-says-he-spoke-to-an-angel). However, what Islam does have going for it is a host of Islamophile-enablers who scream "racism" whenever Islam is criticized.
Islamophilia is the irrational love of Islam by non-Muslims, extending to it special privileges and protections not offered to any other ideology. This is probably where the debate needs to be.
I wholehearted agree with you that the debate should shift over to Islam. And I wish Feminists and SJW's agreed with us on that, seeing as how their culture destroys women...
If the hypothetical idea of an afterlife means more to you than the objectively true reality we all share, then you deserve no respect.