Atheist fundamentalists fighting fire with fire

Last updated on: January 30, 2014 at 5:25 am by John Shore

Atheist fundamentalists fighting fire with fire 2014-01-30T05:25:10-08:00 John Shore

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Above is the billboard the American Atheists have “launched” near the Metlife Stadium. It’ll be up through Super Bowl Sunday.

Though a Christian myself, I am not inclined to dislike atheists. I think very much, for instance, of Hemant Mehta, the Friendly Atheist. I have respect for Sam Harris. One of my all-time heroes is the late Christopher Hitchens, a genius if ever one was born. I wouldn’t be all that shocked if it turns out Ricky Gervais is God.

These are people who insist that the least we should ask of any faith system is that it be rational, reasonable, not … you know, manifestly morally offensive. Works for me. Works for anyone who’s sane.

If I were an atheist, though, the American Atheists would make me cringe. They’re so relentlessly obnoxious*.* The clear purpose of their dependably crass sensationalism is to above all offend. That’s cheap, easy, and childish. It does nothing to serve any cause at all beyond that which they seem to care most about, which is keeping the $potlight $hined upon themselves. The American Atheists are the pretentiously smug Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck of atheism, the arrogantly braying Tony Perkins and Brian Brown of Christianity.

They are—or certainly seem to be, anyway—the fundamentalists of atheism. They fight fire with fire. And that’s just a way for everyone to get burned.

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