This is a rather snarky and amusing article, a little over my head as I do not keep up with the tenants of atheism.
It shows how people will fight about anything, even or especially with those on their own side.
Language warning, btw, I guess The Guardian isn't what we call a "family newspaper".
PS-should have given a tip o’the hat to the Hot Air site.
Perfectly ok to put it in the Religion section. Religion is Man’s ideas on God as well as God’s thoughts on Man. Atheism is a belief system (or in this case non-belief) about God just as much as Christianity or Islam or Buddhism.
What tenets, other than not believing in a supernatural being?
If they don’t believe in God, what is it they are getting all worked up about?
Its so simple really. I am a Christian because I have yet to see any other way of living that gives people more joy in the good times, more strength in the hard times, and more comfort in our times of sorrow.
Atheists do not believe in God. How is it possible to have a split between Atheists? Did one sect of deniers break away from the traditional group of deniers? Are the traditionalists calling the new Atheists apostates and heretics?
The roots of atheism are almost always moral not intellectual.
Athiesm+ seems to be an attempt to inject “social justice” into the organization. Some of the young I have heard from scoff at the move. They also scoff at the idea of forming a organized group in general.
I must post this gem from the article.
“Fellow Freethought blogger Richard Carrier goes further. When one commentator suggests “atheism does not have the luxury of kicking people out of its movement”, Carrier gives him a rare old quilting in most splendid prose:
“Yes, it does. Atheism+ is our movement. We will not consider you a part of it, we will not work with you, we will not befriend you. We will heretofore denounce you as the irrational or immoral scum you are (if such you are). If you reject these values, then you are no longer one of us. And we will now say so, publicly and repeatedly. You are hereby disowned.”
I see what’s really going on, here. Leftists cannot resist trying to co-opt *everything* into the leftist agenda.
This is why they are just incapable of doing “single subject” protests anymore, because all the agenda dummies show up to protest their own Moonbattery at the same time and it dilutes the message.
However, they’ve kind of maxed out, because most people have other interests than the leftist crapola, and when the dumbass leftists try to take over their organization, they schism it, so that the purists are on one side, and the leftist agenda types are on their own.
And the leftists hate that, because they want the entire organization, not just the dregs they have taken over. Without everybody else supporting them, they are nothing. They cannot contribute, they only take away.
They become parasites without hosts.
And now, it appears, they are doing it to atheists.
Haw-haw.