Yesterday's post and the day prior's has drawn lots of heat from the atheists, but no light. A certain amount of defensiveness and anger is expected from the atheists. Atheists are remarkably thin-skinned and there is a victimhood mentality which thoroughly pervades atheism.
Atheists are allowed to say the most terrible things about everyone else but they are exempt from criticism in their own minds.
Sam Harris has said some horrendously insulting things about a religion with 1 billion adherents worldwide. Bill Maher has a long history of promoting prejudice against Islam, too:
I just about dropped my teeth when I saw this clip of Bill Maher agreeing with Ayaan Hirsi Ali that Islam is not a religion of peace and has not been hijacked by a tiny minority of extremists, and that Muhammad was not exactly the 7th-century Gandhi of Karen Armstrong's imaginings. It was also good to see Hirsi Ali coolly correct Darrell Issa's PC vaporings about how wonderfully Muslims, Christians, and Jews coexisted in the Middle East for centuries, but the most striking aspect of this segment is that Maher here casually affirms something that the mainstream media has been denying and laboring to refute for years.
http://www.jihadwatch.org/...
How is this a straw man argument, atheists? Bill Maher, Sam Harris, Christopher Hitchens and many other prominent, celebrated atheists have savagely attacked Islam as they promote(d) prejudice, bigotry, irrational fear and warfare against an entire religion.
While all of these things were happening there was no public outcry from the atheists contradicting the message of hate spread from atheism's public face. Atheists were saying as many horrendous things about the world's entire population of Muslims as the fundamentalist Christians and like-minded warmongers.
How was this at all possible? How did it come about that Christopher Hitchens became an apologist for the decisions of the George W. Bush administration?
The idea that US foreign policy sowed the seeds of 9/11 is denounced as "anti-Americanism" and "blaming the victim" by our wartime intelligentsia, including such notables as Christopher Hitchens. The acerbic British-born journalist, who juggles columns in the glitzy Vanity Fair and the dowdy Nation, used to be a leftist and is now, whether or not he yet realizes it, a left-neoconservative, albeit of an idiosyncratic sort. Yes, having taken over the Right side of the political spectrum, the neocons are now making inroads on the Left.
http://www.antiwar.com/...
So the leaders of atheism have promoted prejudice, bigotry and the George W. Bush doctrine of perpetual warfare ("crusade") against Islam.
Will the atheists who are not leaders of atheism disavow the teachings of their leaders?
Is there any such thing as religious tolerance among the atheists?
David Mathews
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