There are
some attempts by atheist thinkers to solve this, but they are a real mess.
I keep hearing believers complaining that the billboard in question is somehow
an attempt by atheists to «force» people to abandon their faith, or that it is «pushing atheism» on society.
A continuing
attempt by atheists to remove from all civil / public forums any mention of the God of Israel is certainly, by ANY definition, an attempt by athests to push their disbelief on the rest of us.
Not exact matches
Personally I don't care how a person spends their time or worships... they can worship goats, spirits, god, buddha, nothingness or football... As long as they don't criticize others or
attempt to propagate to non believers, and
by that definition, these
atheist are as bad a evangelicals.
I am impressed
by the passion that
atheists show in
attempting to persuade believers in God not to believe.
I am an
atheist... If this is the worst, I'll take it... What I will not take is the rest, the constant interference of religion in everyday lives, the less and less clear separation between Church and State, the bigoted right - wingers who look down on us (us who think that we have escaped the greatest delusion of all, us who believe that religion is a way to escape individual neurosis
by adhering to a social neurosis...), the
attempts at proselytism, the anti-Darwinian «oh - so - lame» criticism..
You can
attempt to use the comments
by anyone you like, strong or weak
atheist or believer, but without real evidence, all you have is an opinion and faith.
Many
atheists attempt to sidetrack the issue
by twisting the definition and claiming that it isn't a belief, but rather disbelieving in any gods.
By dragging an
atheist activist group in the soldier
attempted to bully the military officers into allowing the soldier to do whatever he / she felt like during the ceremony.
On the contrary, he finds it useful to ponder an array of reductionist
attempts to explain the existence of religion, from that which seeks to pinpoint the area of the human brain or the specific genes connected to religiosity to that which sees religion as a malfunction of the human mind or a vestigial remnant from a primitive stage of human development suitable only for whimpering, immature dullards (a point of view championed
by the new
atheists).
In response to my plea that everybody should ignore the several
attempts to distract this thread
by use of the «red herring» of
atheists promoting their religion, your post at January 6, 2013 at 2:36 pm says I am «wrong» and addresses me with