(November 12, 2019 at 12:47 pm)TimOneill Wrote:Quote:Which is ironic because they sometimes also critique, as this one does, "new atheism" as being too strident.
Where have I criticised anyone for "being too strident"? I don't care if they are "strident" or not - they can knock themselves out. My issue starts and ends with them mangling history, especially when simultaneously preaching at other about checking their facts, doing their homework, avoiding fringe theories and paying attention to experts. I'm not a fan of bad history or of hypocrisy.
I'm also not a fan of patent stupidity, so the twerps who claim I'm not "really" an atheist because I burst some of their silly little bubbles also get pretty short shrift from me. Unfortunately some people are just plain dumb and atheism has attracted its share of the latter.
You're only concerned about people 'mangling history' because you're upset that Napoleon was killed outside the Biograph theatre in Chicago and didn't have the chance to edit his final version of the Summa Theologica.
Boru
‘But it does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are twenty gods or no gods. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.’ - Thomas Jefferson