Atheists are people, too

[james_davis_nicoll]

Unfortunately that means some of them are terrible people.

I’ve been writing about atheism for about 10 years now. What has driven me is a combination of awe at the amazing insights produced by science, so much deeper and more substantial than any collection of myths, and a furious rage at the lies and injustice and corruption of humanity by religion. For a while there, in the middle, there was also an ebullience at the growing success of atheism, and hope that someday we would be able to cast aside the follies of faith. The awe is still here, the rage is still burning, but the optimism is fading and is being consumed by a new anger at the incompetence and betrayal of the self-appointed atheist leadership.

Comments

[ethelmay.livejournal.com]

"Finally, there are spiritually-inclined persons who have had direct experience of the supernatural. To such an person, the atheist worldview makes about as much sense as Young Earth Creationism does to a geologist working the lower levels of the Grand Canyon. I.e, it comes across as the babbling of a smug, ignorant fool and isn't going to persuade said spiritual person that the atheist has anything of value to say."

If that were true, I couldn't BE an atheist without inherently disrespecting you (even if I never said a word about your religious experiences one way or another). Moreover, if that were true, you couldn't be a spiritual person without inherently disrespecting me. I hope that's not what you actually mean to imply.