“Atheist Nicene Creed”? I doubt there were atheists in Nicaea in 325 A.D.
Atheism has its priests, its fundamentalists, its proselytizers and its dangerous fanatics, just like most other faiths. On the other hand, it defines itself by what it doesn’t believe in, while failing to acknowledge its own dogmas.
“Atheism” is the outcome of the ‘old two friends that agree to disagree’, with neither having ‘the winning point’.
“Atheism”, in matters of the divine, defends the non-existence of anything supernatural, and that ‘all’ is a random factor of chance. “It just happens.” Life is what we do, what we think, what we feel, what we become, without any ‘outside determination or intervention’.
Now, “atheism” in politics, a person can believe in splinters of what might form ‘conservative’ or ‘liberal’, but not ascribe to ANY so-called pure party dictate.
“Militant atheism” is, as I understand it, a belief that any and all ‘religious systems’ are an impediment to ‘man’ attaining his highest pinnacle of excellence, due to the chains of dogma and created self-loathing of his self-generated imperfections, and must be removed or destroyed.
The 2007 New Life Church Church shooter was also an atheist who was specifically anti-Christian. Of course, the Columbine killers were anti-Christian atheists as well. It would be interesting to see a study.
Atheism is just another belief system and the idea that a person could be militant about it seems ridiculous.
I have had this up on ChristianPatriot.com for years, every Christian should watch it and ponder it’s message.
Atheism lead inexorably to nihilism. You cannot separate the two.
Atheists should not be allowed to hold public office. It also should be legal for employers to fire atheists for being unbelievers and to ask on job applications whether applicants are atheists.
I was wondering if the author would mention communism, though he doesn't do so by name.
I've seen the behavior described here from militant atheists years before "militant atheist bloggers" ever existed. I don't view the double standard in itself as an invalidation of atheism, but the double standard says something about its wielders, those masters of logic and rationality.