tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5061273.post116725748205856612..comments2023-11-03T06:08:34.011-06:00Comments on Third Level Digression: Yahmdallahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04486390319031344611noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5061273.post-1167584447562379802006-12-31T10:00:00.000-07:002006-12-31T10:00:00.000-07:00I guess we'll have to disagree on this one.It's be...I guess we'll have to disagree on this one.<BR/><BR/>It's become a common concept, though: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=atheist+fundamentalist&btnG=Google+Search<BR/><BR/>It appears that some atheists try to reject the classification, but they try to hoist the rhetoric of their rejection onto the house of cards that atheism isn't a belief or organized set of beliefs like religions are. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5061273.post-1167527158238719822006-12-30T18:05:00.000-07:002006-12-30T18:05:00.000-07:00I guess I went off on a tangent there...What I saw...I guess I went off on a tangent there...<BR/><BR/>What I saw as contradictory was the idea that a distinct group of theists who base all reality on one book (e.g. the bible) which has no basis in science, and atheists who base reality on the sum total of all man's scientific knowledge to date, are painted with the same brush. How they relate to others is irrelevent. (And let's face it - no one Sleemothhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15006902739068295904noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5061273.post-1167524845121292972006-12-30T17:27:00.000-07:002006-12-30T17:27:00.000-07:00I didn't know you hung out with Dawkins.I guess I ...I didn't know you hung out with Dawkins.<BR/><BR/>I guess I could pin this label on someone if I actually knew them personally and was put off by their intolerance of me because of my beliefs. I don't know upon what you base your denunciation, but I hope you recognize the irony of this. <BR/><BR/>I've been meaning to read his latest book, along with "Letter to a Christian Nation" (forgot the Sleemothhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15006902739068295904noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5061273.post-1167497767900519172006-12-30T09:56:00.000-07:002006-12-30T09:56:00.000-07:00Nope. It's the form of atheism where the (non)bel...Nope. It's the form of atheism where the (non)believer is convinced theirs is the only reasonable and acceptable conclusion given the evidence, and everyone else is stupid or deluded. <BR/><BR/>And of course, it's not the only form of atheism. I know many who, while they are convinced themselves, do not require everyone around them to share their opinion.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5061273.post-1167448542316043472006-12-29T20:15:00.000-07:002006-12-29T20:15:00.000-07:00Atheist fundie? Contradictory, wouldn'cha say?Atheist fundie? Contradictory, wouldn'cha say?Sleemothhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15006902739068295904noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5061273.post-1167434518091888452006-12-29T16:21:00.000-07:002006-12-29T16:21:00.000-07:00I'd been thinking about the Y. family when the new...I'd been thinking about the Y. family when the news mentioned the Colorado blizzard, and hoping you weren't suffering from it too much. Hereabouts we'd been enduring agonizing cold--sometimes down literally into the forties--until this morning, when a warm-air system blew up the Gulf bringing 70 degrees, unending thunderstorms, and a little road-flooding. No one threw up. Though I had to fling The Opinionated Homeschoolerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07998448933609444830noreply@blogger.com