1. The New Atheists

Comment #49382 by Thunderance on June 11, 2007 at 5:56 pm

I agree with Thor, and this article does indeed present quite a few good arguments and is balanced.

The war on religion is an ideological war, and no form of violence or force-feeding of ideas will win us this war. Thus it perhaps is best to win a war through persuasion, hence justifying the need to temporarily ally with the secular believers.

However, it is only too reassuring to do so, believing that there are so few differences between us as they are but "tacit atheists". There is a large difference between us, actually. I think the fact that these people are 'tacit atheists' and not actual atheists is possibly due to the fact that they do not question the existence of God - they feel discomfort at the idea that he might not exist, and hence put the idea out of their heads.

This basic difference must be overcome - they must question, and start thinking more deeply about such issues, or this alliance will truly be a short one.

Indeed, the method we would use to fight this war will determine our victory or slide into obscurity. Personally, I believe that what we should be doing is constantly bringing up the atheist arguments, and to get ourselves recognized by society; to persist in writing books, stand up for our views, and push for our rights until society can deny us no more. We have to fight until society questions why we are, why we fight against religion so. We have to strip away the 'sacred' protection that religion has from discussion before the war can truly be fought.