Division in the Community

For those of you who are not in the Atheist community, you may be unaware of the small division that has been going on. Basically there are the “new” Atheist's, the vocal, “angry”, and basically the assholes, Which I seem to agree with. Then there’s the accommodationist sect, that not only adopts a live and let live approach, but tries not to step on the toes of the crazy fundies.

Our disagreement is that no one gets a free pass. If you say the earth is six thousand years old, then by all means I will say that you are stupid. I don’t believe anyone can be ignorant of the facts, but so chooses to believe in crazy nonsense regardless of the evidence. So confronting people about the truth I guess makes us assholes. I’m not sorry to break peoples delusions about the natural world. People have the right to say and believe whatever they want, but when they make comments about the natural world they open themselves up to ridicule.

I was a much softer Atheist, much to the thanks of Professor P.Z. Myers, my thoughts and attitudes have changed. The reason I think we need loud voices in Atheism is that there are much more people out there, that question the dogma they’ve been brought up with. If we’re loud and obnoxious they can find that there are people out there that share their view of a natural world, and are not alone.

It is ok to be an Atheist LOL. We are not a blood thirsty devil worshiping bunch, but rather individuals that want a little more substance in their lives, that religion just cant fill. as Carl Sagan best put it “Science delivers the goods”. So all you pearl clutching ninny atheist and agnostics out there, grow a pair and fight the nonsense. Stop pretending that by pandering to religious fools that things will get better. As always this is your Grumpy Skeptic…signing off!