From: CoolCly | Posted: 12/25/2011 3:29:51 AM | #171
The strawman is saying that atheism doesn't promote looking down on other religions or anything like that, when the entire point of this topic is that hardcore atheists are terrible which is completely true.
I'll admit I'm a bit rusty on my logical fallacies, but stating "atheism promotes looking down on religions" as an apparent fact is probably one of them.
And why do some people insist on referring to atheism as a religion? Are you unfamiliar with common approaches to defining or characterizing "religion" in religious studies, e.g. Ninian Smart's dimensions of religion? I assume you must be unfamiliar with it, or else unfamiliar with atheism at all, else you would realize how little atheism has in common with actual religions. Or do you think that atheism has an ethos beyond lack of belief in deities, or creation and cultural origin myths, or holy books, or rituals, or churches, or clergy, or a governing body, or supernatural beings, or transcendent experiences, or sacred places?
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