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Sorry guys but I have to disagree. There’s no such thing as a ‘militant’ atheist. Richard Dawkins (who tends to come in for a ridiculous amount of unjustified criticism) is the first to admit that science cannot disprove the existence of god (like every other scientists.) Rigid certainty comes almost exclusively from the religious side I’m afraid.
You don’t get Humanist/Atheists trying to stifle free speech, trying to ban books, trying to introduce Bronze Age blasphemy laws etc. I have nothing against anyone with a religious faith as long as it causes no harm and that those people don’t expect others to change their behaviour/lives to accommodate those beliefs. Most religious people just get on with there lives, practice their religion and treat people who don’t have the same beliefs equally. Some don’t though.
The irony is that if you see a religious person preaching/moralising (possible on tv or even in the street) people have no,problem with it. They can be preaching hellfire, telling people how sinful they are and how everyone should follow the same beliefs as them, and it’s fine. They can have armies of religious conmen on tv helping people part with their hard earned cash and no one bats an eyelid. Yet someone like Richard Dawkins goes on tv (occasionally) and says “science proves evolution as a fact (backed up by all reputable scientists on the planet by the way) and that he believes that the facts point away from their being a ‘creator’ and he’s labelled ‘Militant.’ I genuinly don’t get it. Im a member of a Humanist group and I know no one who is militant, dogmatic or intolerant. Most religious people aren’t either but there are infinitely more on the religious side I’m afraid.
You don’t get Humanist/Atheists trying to stifle free speech, trying to ban books, trying to introduce Bronze Age blasphemy laws etc. I have nothing against anyone with a religious faith as long as it causes no harm and that those people don’t expect others to change their behaviour/lives to accommodate those beliefs. Most religious people just get on with there lives, practice their religion and treat people who don’t have the same beliefs equally. Some don’t though.
The irony is that if you see a religious person preaching/moralising (possible on tv or even in the street) people have no,problem with it. They can be preaching hellfire, telling people how sinful they are and how everyone should follow the same beliefs as them, and it’s fine. They can have armies of religious conmen on tv helping people part with their hard earned cash and no one bats an eyelid. Yet someone like Richard Dawkins goes on tv (occasionally) and says “science proves evolution as a fact (backed up by all reputable scientists on the planet by the way) and that he believes that the facts point away from their being a ‘creator’ and he’s labelled ‘Militant.’ I genuinly don’t get it. Im a member of a Humanist group and I know no one who is militant, dogmatic or intolerant. Most religious people aren’t either but there are infinitely more on the religious side I’m afraid.
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