Because they both share a "we're right and everyone else is wrong" sort of mentality/ presentation?
No, it's worse than that. The Dawkinses and Harrises of the world want to rid the planet of the only thing that, as far as I'm concerned, can save it.
I agree that the article loses credibility when it starts talking about how the religious right is playing nice now and the atheists are just stirring up shit. But it gets a lot of things right, such as the ridiculousness of the frequent atheist assertion that if we could just get rid of religion, then there would be no more war, genocide, atrocity...in general, the world would have no more problems if the atheists were in control.
Someone recently posted a comment on one of my entries linking to a post in one of the LJ atheist communities, where the author was making just such a claim. I pointed out to the person who posted the comment on my journal that I somehow wouldn't feel any safer with the atheists running things, and gave Communist China as an example, although Stalin and Pol Pot are excellent ones, too.
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Date: 2006-12-08 01:31 am (UTC)No, it's worse than that. The Dawkinses and Harrises of the world want to rid the planet of the only thing that, as far as I'm concerned, can save it.
I agree that the article loses credibility when it starts talking about how the religious right is playing nice now and the atheists are just stirring up shit. But it gets a lot of things right, such as the ridiculousness of the frequent atheist assertion that if we could just get rid of religion, then there would be no more war, genocide, atrocity...in general, the world would have no more problems if the atheists were in control.
Someone recently posted a comment on one of my entries linking to a post in one of the LJ atheist communities, where the author was making just such a claim. I pointed out to the person who posted the comment on my journal that I somehow wouldn't feel any safer with the atheists running things, and gave Communist China as an example, although Stalin and Pol Pot are excellent ones, too.