Atheists Split Over Message

The Las Vegas Sun ^ | March 30,2007 | JAY LINDSAY

[buccaneer81]

Wow! Just like a real religion! Even the non-believers can't get their act together.

[GAB-1955]

I find the New Atheists are as dogmatic and intolerant as any fundamentalist. We do not want to be tolerated as believers. We demand acceptance and inclusion in the public life, including protection from other religions and the government. Got that, bright guy?

[IslandJeff]

humanist chaplaincy

Now THAT is a job. Follow the money...

[Cicero]

The celebration of a "New Humanism" will emphasize inclusion and diversity within the movement, and will include Pulitzer Prize-winning scientist E.O. Wilson, a humanist who has made well-chronicled efforts to team with evangelical Christians to fight global warming.

Translation: "If we're more polite, maybe we can pull the wool over their eyes and turn these superstitious idiots into useful idiots."

[narses]

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[mnehring]

I've always laughed at how militant many atheists are.. if there is no God, what's the point?

[fat city]

Best headline of the day!

[flintsilver7]

Atheism (or as some of the militants ironically refer to it, "freethought") is easily the most dogmatic religion that exists. It requires more faith than most any other religion.

In short, it's perfect for the average person with a serious God complex.

[buccaneer81]

humanist chaplaincy

Bet you could have a few beers and pick up some chicks with the chaplain.

[marsh_of_mists]

The only thing I object to if the term "New Atheist". New since what? The 18th century, at least?

[Calvin Locke]

Which group is likely to prevail, the United Atheist Alliance (UAA), United Atheist League (UAL), and the Allied Atheist Allegiance (AAA)?

[MichiganMan]

I've always laughed at how militant many atheists are.. if there is no God, what's the point?

Well, if you're an atheist (and I say this as a Christian) this life right here is all you get for all eternity and hence you might as well expend your energy on making it as free from these people that you think are harming things as possible.

[elcid1970]

How do you describe an atheist's funeral?

"All dressed up and no place to go!"

Atheists are a screwed up, obnoxious, in-your-face bunch.

Screw 'em.

[Sherman Logan]

Agnosticism is an intellectually defensible position.

Atheism is not.

[buccaneer81]

Monty Python Bump!

[ExpatGator]

I'm pretty much agnostic and agree whole-heartedly with your observation. Many of them (not all) do seem quite obnoxious in their belief of non-belief.

[AmericaUnited]

I've always laughed at how militant many atheists are.. if there is no God, what's the point?

I personally have never met one I really thought they deep down inside believed there really was not a God. They remind me of children throwing temper fits against mommy, "I hate you Mommy".

[NYer]

How many winds of doctrine have we known in recent decades, how many ideological currents, how many ways of thinking. The small boat of the thought of many Christians has often been tossed about by these waves - flung from one extreme to another: from Marxism to liberalism, even to libertinism; from collectivism to radical individualism; from atheism to a vague religious mysticism; from agnosticism to syncretism and so forth. Every day new sects spring up, and what St Paul says about human deception and the trickery that strives to entice people into error (cf. Eph 4: 14) comes true.

«PRO ELIGENDO ROMANO PONTIFICE» -
HOMILY OF HIS EMINENCE CARD. JOSEPH RATZINGER
DEAN OF THE COLLEGE OF CARDINALS
Mass preceding the Papal Conclave
Monday 18 April 2005

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[sourcery]

An Atheist Split? Does that come with nuts, and a cherry on top?

By the way, I happen to be an atheist, and I would fully expect any group of people bound together by common belief to eventually develop schisms, and to attract a fair share of psychopaths, idiots of both the useful and useless variety, and assorted nuts.

[AmericaUnited]

Speaking as a Protestant, I don't believe I'll see His Eminence Ratzinger in Heaven

As a great man of God, he'll be up close to the throne and I'll be way in the back of the crowd, making seeing him pretty tough. :)