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]

"I was referring to a specific subset of atheists"

"The atheist worldview" is not a very good name for that subset.

I don't really know whether I think other people's beliefs are valid. I am not sure I know what you mean by validity. If I thought their beliefs were completely valid, after all, I would agree with them, and if I don't, I don't. But I don't have to agree with everything someone else thinks in order to get along with them -- just enough so that we have sufficient assumptions in common that we aren't inherently incompatible. Some beliefs are going to be deal-breakers for me. Lots aren't.