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

by satyansh , Saturday, December 04, 2010, 07:27 (5249 days ago) @ dhw

"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."-Obviously all atheists are not like that. only the crazy ones. but honestly there are quite a few of them who are crazy. just like when people say all muslims are not terrorists but most of the terrorists are muslims. when I say it is a light banter and it does not mean it is generalized. i think your being too politically correct. i mean we are not fighting a law suit here that we need to dissect each and every line. when i try to joke around with my wife by saying you women r this or that doesn't mean all women r like that. it is just a light bit of banter. it certainly does not mean that they are all like. i am more than capable of arguing with reasonable answers but this was just a joke and no one needs to take it literally. -this is just a rebuttal to a vast majority of extremist atheists who use the quite a vast number of personal based attacks in subtle ways when they argue with theists or agnostics. this was intended to be a joke and it is a joke. i hope i have cleared my position now.