I'm glad
someone finally said this. I've been only vaguely dipping into the QOTW this week, as I just knew it would wind me up. Militant atheism is just as much religious extremism as the minority - and it is a minority, albeit an upsettingly vocal one - of Christians who yell at you in the street.

Arg, fuck it. It's probably all been said anyway. I do get very bored with people who've swallowed Dr Dawkins (why exactly a biologist is considered an authority on theology I've no idea, btw; as Terry Eagleton said it's rather like someone who's read The Book of British Birds calling themselves a seminal naturalist ) telling me my beliefs are stupid and deluded when in fact neither of us know the real truth. I choose to believe, you choose not to. That's fine by me, but it seems ironic that it's only ever atheists that have ever attempted to ram anything down my throat.
Er.
I could have chosen a more fortunate phrase there.
(jennymnemonic, Thu 26 Mar 2009, 16:52, 2 replies)

You could have.
But it wouldn't have made me smile so much. :)
(SpangoTheWonderBadger is brewing beer, Thu 26 Mar 2009, 17:01, closed)

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Biology has been an excellent qualification for the subject of theology since 1859.
(misanthrope is so adjective he's verbing nouns!, Thu 26 Mar 2009, 17:12, closed)