similarities between New Age atheists and religious nut jobs (Introduction)

by dhw, Friday, December 03, 2010, 13:48 (5249 days ago) @ satyansh

Satyansh drew up a list of six points that fundamentalist theists and atheists have in common. Tony has added one:-TONY: They are blind to anything that deviates from their own narrow perspective of the world.-SATYANSH: thank you very much. my dear friend. now i have point 7 i wanna add a lot more points not because i dislike atheists i know it just pisses them off and i find it funny. just a light banter here and there.-So long as you're pointing the finger at a certain type of theist and a certain type of atheist, I think these comments are fair enough and in my view devastatingly accurate! But satyansh's last post suggests that this attack is not even-handed at all and is directed only against atheists in general. It's as wrong to lump all atheists together as it is to lump all Muslims together. Fundamentalists of all kinds, religious or anti-religious, are blind to any perspective other than their own, but we tend to give them short shrift on this forum, and they rapidly depart. Much as I enjoy a good laugh, I hope you will piss atheists (or theists) off by answering the arguments of the thinkers rather than by picking on the characteristics of the extremists.