13th August 2011, 11:45 PM
I never said I was a Christian! And also, thanks for the life lesson. I'm merely talking about the unpleasant experience of witnessing and trying to reason with narrow-minded pseudo-intellectual folk who launch on to an ideal such as atheism and fight for it as if it's the most important, pressing issue anybody will ever have to deal with. As in, the type that read The God Delusion and not bother to read or seriously consider anything to the contrary. Do you know how Dawkins introduces that book? "If this book works as I intend, religious readers who open it will be atheists when they put it down." That's what he says. How is that anything other than interfering and aggressively trying to change somebody's beliefs? His followers tend to latch on to that agenda. Okay fine, maybe I'm not talking about all atheists in general, just the really annoying scoffing atheists. The Randian types you were talking about in an earlier thread exhibit the same type of voraciousness.