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Date: February 10, 2015 11:43AM
I don’t know anything about whiny, paranoid “religious types” worrying about atheists that are “out to get them.” From what I see, debates about the word “atheist” and atheism take place among atheists themselves and other types of non-believers on the internet. IRL I don’t see any of it. (Funny thing for example, no one I know IRL, from professionals down to truck drivers, know who Sam Harris is.)
And it’s pretty clear that the 1961 SCOTUS ruling on “religious tests” takes care of those seven, southern states (granting Maryland is Southern). I guess per the American Way, someone or some group will have to make those states abide by the constitution, its amendments and the 1961 SCOTUS ruling.
Finally, if atheism is and only is “a lack of belief” then how is it even possible to list atheists as a “legitimate minority” protected by hate speech laws? Are non-stamp collectors, to use the commonly used example, to be protected also?
But to your main claim that “Atheism is not a movement”: that’s disingenuous. Of course a movement can be built from atheism, and has been. An example:
http://atheists.orgWhat is their aim?
“Atheism may be defined as the mental attitude which unreservedly accepts the supremacy of reason and aims at establishing a life-style and ethical outlook verifiable by experience and scientific method, independent of all arbitrary assumptions of authority and creeds.”
That’s a movement built upon atheism that strives to establish a “life-style and ethical outlook.”
Now, does this movement include all atheists? No, of course not, just as SCLC obviously didn’t include all christians or zionism include all jews, etc. But it is a movement created by atheists built upon their atheism.
Human
(If Tal Bachman is reading, kindly re-post your deleted OP on the different kinds of atheism. Pity it was deleted.)