By AL STEFANELLI
Updated: Wed, 05 May 2010 20:32:55 UTC

Do people call you a "Militant Atheist"?  Good, then tell them what Militant Atheism is not.  It is nothing like Militant Islam or Militant Christianity, where the weapons of choice are guns, explosive devices, and weapons of mass destruction. Our weapons of choice are reason, logic and science.  Our system of delivery for this ammunition are books, websites and science journals.  We counter the fairy tale, delusional conception and memetic mind virus of religion with facts, proved theories, universal laws and, above all, reason. 

The reason why many of us Atheists who quietly sat by the sidelines suddenly and in great numbers decided to put on the gloves and come out fighting is because those who believe have gone too far with their insistence that the rest of us just cannot be left alone, which is really all we wanted. We will not go quietly into the night.  We will raise our voices of reason and drown out the deluded masses. We are the New Atheists. Get used to us…

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Allow me to introduce myself. My name is Al Stefanelli, and I am the founder of the United Atheist Front. We also have a page on Facebook.  I am a former weekly columnist for a McClatchy newspaper and have hosted a weekly syndicated radio program. I am also a former Southern Baptist Pastor. I have spent many years studying world religions, the history of ideas, sociology, biology, psychology, archaeology and paleontology.  My background has convinced me that those who choose to believe in a deity are suffering from delusional hallucinations.

The discussion topic was taken from my blog. If you would like to read the whole entry before you discuss it.  Scroll down to find the one titled "Militant Atheism: Why The Gloves Came Off"...

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