If atheists were actually "militant"...

[Nicko]

Interesting article I ran across.

If (Trevor Phillips') claim that "people who want to drive religion underground are much more active, much more vocal" contained a jot of truth, we would have read the following stories in the days after his intervention.

• Inflamed after reading an acerbic passage by Richard Dawkins, "fashionable" Belfast atheists decide to lay siege to Catholic homes in the Short Strand area of the city. They terrify its residents and attack the police with petrol bombs and fireworks. (As it was, the riots were the work of Belfast Protestants motivated by a hatred of Catholicism. They were met by Republican IRA "dissidents", filled with an equal hatred of Protestantism.)

• "Vocal" Iraqi secularists decide that they want to drive the Shia Muslims in Baghdad underground. They ignite bombs in a Shia market during its busiest time of the week and a mosque, killing 40 in all. (As it was, the murders were the work of al-Qaida in Iraq, which regards Shia Muslims as heretics and was determined to demonstrate again that no one is as murderously "Islamophobic" as Islamists are.

• Free-thinking Americans decide they have had enough of religious leaders laying down the law. They descend on the New York State Senate and heckle and jostle a woman rabbi as she tries to influence a debate on gay marriage. (As it was, the heckling and jostling was done by Orthodox Jews, who said the rabbi had no right to speak for Judaism because she was a lesbian.)

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree ... rimination

[FBM]

Militant agnostic: "I don't know and neither do you."

I think I'm just too lazy to be militant.

[JimC]

Militant agnostic: "I don't know and neither do you."

I think I'm just too lazy to be militant.

Yep...

Basic atheist:

"I don't know for sure, but it's pretty damn unlikely that any of the many human-invented gods actually exist"

"However, carry on enjoying your delusion, don't mind me..."

[Rum]

Meh is about as militant as I get..

..now if the factions in Nornirland would do the same..

[Nicko]

Basic atheist:

"I don't know for sure, but it's pretty damn unlikely that any of the many human-invented gods actually exist"

"However, carry on enjoying your delusion, don't mind me..."

Paranoid Christian with a Martyr Complex:

"See how militant he is?"

"This persecution has to stop."

[Pappa]

This has always summed it up for me.

[charlou]

They can keep their fucking slimey religion out of our schools is about as militant as I am atm.

[Feck]

Saturday afternoons spent knocking on doors ..that would be fun though ..Hello we'd like to talk to you about Gods and why you Don't need one in your life

[Mysturji]

I'm a hardline moderate: All extremists should be shot.

[Pappa]

Saturday afternoons spent knocking on doors ..that would be fun though ..Hello we'd like to talk to you about Gods and why you Don't need one in your life

It is something I'd love to do as a joke one day (yet making a serious point at the same time). Perhaps a campaign for a satirical "International Atheist Evangelism Day" would be a good idea.

[Hermit]

Saturday afternoons spent knocking on doors ..that would be fun though ..Hello we'd like to talk to you about Gods and why you Don't need one in your life

They can keep their fucking slimey religion out of our schools is about as militant as I am atm.

Yes. That is getting my dander up in a major way too.

[mistermack]

I'm a hardline moderate: All extremists should be shot.

"Yeh, SMASH VIOLENCE !! KILL ALL THE WARMONGERS !!!
Be here Saturday man, we're having a peace riot !!!!! "
Fred Wedlock

[Geoff]

Saturday afternoons spent knocking on doors ..that would be fun though ..Hello we'd like to talk to you about Gods and why you Don't need one in your life

Didn't a group do that once? I'm sure I remember a YouTube with something similar...

[FBM]

...Be here Saturday man, we're having a peace riot !!!!! "
Fred Wedlock

[Geoff]